The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-14
endeavor to produce a better grade of

endeavor to produce a better grade of
the weed.
Mr.. John Y. Moore, ex-Mayor of
Wilson, and w. Z. Clark, ex-Chairman
of the Board of Commissioners of
Wilson county give it as their opinion
that the acreage this year is larger
than last by abou ten per cent, but
hat the yield will be only about sixty
FIVE per cent for the whole crop wins
to the unfavorable season. The weed,
they say, has the right color but not
the vitality. Both Of these gentlemen
give it as their opinion that the acre
age Will be greatly reduced another
year. In fact Mr.. Moore avs that
this year he applied the knife deep
and next year he will prune some
more.
Mr.. j. c.. Raper, a warehouseman
and prominent farmer, says: 1t mat
tiers not whether the weed brings five
or forty dollars per NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
yea / will not plant more than half.
| believe the acreage should be re
duced and more attention paid to cul-
tivation and curings. Then, and not
till then, will the arrGer get paid for
their labor. The crop this year is way
below the average o in fact most
of the primingS are almost worthless,
and much of the crop hat is now be-
ing marketed is not wanted at any
price. My advice to m Is
plant less obacc or 0 and the
country will go to perdltlOn. 1t Is
true, l am in the warehouse business
and it costs me from $500 to $4,000
to run the business, but let me tell
you, friends, / had rather i~mpOVerlsh
myself thar to see you throw away
your time and labor planting stuff
that will make you poorer ana poorer
each year you try to cVerdO the thing.
= oInro C01Ir acreage and paw more
attention to hog and hOminy and the
things you are deprived of by the low
prices you are now getting for the
weed will be in your reach
Mr.. E. A. Darden, a prominent
warehouseman, says: The increase
in acreage this year has been betWeen
ten and fifteen per cent, but the yield
will not be more than slxty-fVe or
seventy per cent of what it was last
year; the quality is much inferior to
that of last year; color good, but no
body in character
J.. NJ. Edwards, Dibbrel
Bros, Gnc.) says: The sales from
first hands will be between ten and
fifteen per cent of what was sold last
year. Relatively, taking quality Of
crop into consideration, prices are
about the same. During the month of
August, 1908, there was sold on the
| Wilson market about two and a half
million POUNDS at an average VI goo
per hundred; this year only ABOUT
one million and a half pounds. aVeraS-
ing S6.43 per hundred-a difference
of 1925 per hundred. ] believe that
il the number of pounds had Deen
sold for the month of August this
wear as was sold last, that the aver
ages would be about the same.
+ S. Tomlinson, member OF the
hoard of Wilson county commissioners,
and a prominent farmer of the Black
Creek section, has a different view OF
the situation: Says tina green tip
which sold in 1S92-2-4 in the rough
for ten dollars per hundred, brings
now not more than $3.50 to $500 for
the same stuff graded; says he Will
reduce acreage next year.
Mr.. I. M Cox, secretary of the Will
son Tobacco Board of Trade, says:
ON regard to the information you ask
me for his morning, l will say that
during the month of August, 1908,
there was sold on the Wilson tobacco
market two and one halt million
mounds Of tobacco, or t~hereabout, at
an average price of $7.6S per hundred.
mis- wear there was sold on this mar
ket in August one million six
thousand at an average Of $6.43 per
hundred. The quality of a is
not as good as it was last year; in
fact we think the tobacco that mas
been sold up to this time on our
,rarket is about the IN a
eood many years. AS to the increase
in acreage | think that a safe estimate
would be from six to ten per cent,
and about siXty-five~per cent OF a