The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-27

The history OF the loose lear topdcCo
market for Virginia and North Caro-
lima for the past week is but rcpeti-
ton of that OF the previous week. and
The repetition Is made necessary by
the continued cold and harsh weather
This kind OF weather forbids the
growers OF the weed, which said grow
ers are expected at this season of the
year to feed the markets, from doing
business in the old way.
Down in North Carolina, where they
grow. only brights. and in the south
tier of counties in Virginia. where
brigilts' are. almost all the go, the
farmers. or a great many of them.
have gotten in the habit within the
past DECADE of forcing a season by
the use OF the barn cellars" A barn
cellar is merely hole in the ground
under the barn or to the side thereof,
in which there Is always a damp
ness that brings tobacco in order"
regardless of the outside atmospheric
conditions The markets in North
Carolina and in the south end counties
OF Virginia that look to the regions
which indulge the luxury of these un
foreground ordering" shops have had
larger sales and better breaks than
the towns and the cities that still rely
upon the time conditions of nature
and the elements.
1t is beginning to be a question with
the growers whether or not this fore
ing of order by the underground
method is such good thing as was
at first supposed. The growers are
beginning to observe that the buyers
OF the leaf make a difference In their
Judgment between the natural or
dered" leaf and the cellar ordered"
stuff. Just why the buyers make this
difference the growers have not yet
been Informed. but the natural sup
position is that the aforesaid buyers
do not find the "artificially" ordered
stock just quite as profitable to han
die as that which was ordered in the
good old way provided by nature.
The growers OF the sun-cured stocks
that make the Richmond loose leaf
market lively for several months in
every year have not yet caught on to
the Underground" method of forcing
the weed into marketable order. and
1t may be good for them that they
have not. Be that as 1t may, the fact
remains that because Of the cool.
harsh weather of the past two weeks
and more the receipts of the loose
leaf by the Richmond warehouses con-
tinue very light.
The total sales for the past week
amounted to not more than $4,000
pounds, and the offerings consisted in
the main of the lopfar grades. How
showed up here End there. and some
of these grades brought as much as
SIT per hundred. The offerings OF
Virginia Burley We're not more than
10000 pounds, but every pound of 1t
that was put out brought good money.
The business in package goods was
little dull during the week, dull
ness due entirely to the slimness of
the offerings 1t is believed that the
holders of reprzed and reordered
stocks of all kinds, especially Of the
brtghts, have on hand only fair
supply of the goods, and they are dis
posed to hold for outside figures
There has been some little FURRY In
the Burley package business, some of
the manufacturers being of the opinion
that the tumble down of the farmers
combine In Kentucky meant much
lower prices for the Burley waited
bit for concessions, 1t turns out
that while there Is an immense supply
OF Burnley on the market, the larger
proportion Of 1t is off color. The types
that carry color and body are In very
active demand. and are readily COM
manding the outside figures. figures
that In many cases exceed the regu-
'lation prices that were demanded by
the so-called pool. off-colored goods
are. of course, going begging
All In all, the tobacco market is In
good condition; that Is to say, In bet
ter condition for the growers of the
weed than 1t has been In several years.
Tobacco Mt Bedford City.
[Specalto The Times Dispatch.l
Bedford City November 2s,--On account of
the long continued dry scason and frequent
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