The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-07-17
Prospects Are for 10 Per
Cent Increase
OVER THE YIELD OF LAST YEAR
Canvass of Productive States
Shows General Improve
ment Over 1911.
ENSED ON THE AVERAGE YIELD

The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
Unless all indications fail and
disastrous conditions confront the
tobacco crop of the United States
during the growing season,the 1912
yield, while establishing no new
record, will be considerably heavier
than last year.
There is an apparent tendency in
practically, every section OF the
country to plant more tobacco than
a year ago, except perhaps through
GU: the dgar-growing sections OF
Ohio. where the farmers have be-
I GONE discouraged because Of the
does which have prevailed for
product the pas few years.
Notwithstanding the uncertain
weather conditions which have been
experienced in many parts of the
tobacco-growing regions, the crop
seems to have gone into the field
for the most part under fairly ia
vorable conditions.
The talk about the ten-year pool
ing movement in Kentucky appears
to have carried but little weight
with the growers, and it is doubtful /
|. if this had any effect on the con- !
templated acreage whatsoever. The
increased planting in Kentucky, /
while not of significantly large pro-
portions, leaves little room to doubt /
that even with poor growing wealth
er, the yield will be heavier than in
1911. Practically all the large pro-
ducing States, excepting Ohio, show
a wider area planted to tobacco this
year, notably in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The lateness of the season
through the Middle West, including
the vast hurley belt of Kentucky,
Ohio and Indiana, appears to have
been more talk than fact, and while
the plants in many sections went
into the field from one to three
weeks later than a normal season,
the delay seems to have been bene-
fetal to the growth of the plants in
the beds rather than otherwise.
Another thing that has helped ma
terially In setting out larger acre
age this year is the abundance OF
healthy, thrifty plants, and the un-
usual lack of serious trouble with
the plant beds.
A careful canvass by Enquirer
correspondents in the various coun- /
ties of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana
and in the various tobacco produc-
ing States of the country, indicates
a total area for 1912 amounting to
1,631,972 acres. This is a gain of /
1894 acres over the area estimat- |
ed at the beginning of the planting t
season in 1911, and clear gain I
over the harvested acreage of last I
year, amounting to 154,2S3 acres, I
or Is per cent. G
Calculations based on the aver G
age yield per acre for the past ten S
years in the various States indicate s
a total tobacco yield for the United I!
States this year of 911, 09S,OOO
pounds. This Is an increase over
the harvested yield of last year of \
pounds, or about Is !
per cent. 1t Is also interesting to L
note in this connection that the b
1912 estimate falls short of the Il
bumper crop of 1910 by only 49, a
$50, O95 pounds. 2
Kentucky. the largest tobacco b
producing center of the world, re- <
gardless Of the predictions made K
earlier In the season that there
would be a shrinkage in the acre
age, according to carefully COM =.
piled figures, will not only show -,
good-sized gain in the area planted :.
as contrasted with last year, but
both the acreage and probable yield :,
will not be far under the figures =
for 1910. North Carolina. the Sec y
and largest producing State, reports
a planted area of $4,000 acres, an 4
Increase over last year of $4,000
sores. The sister State of South
carolina has also extended the to- In
5acco acreage somewhat this sea- ca
lon, In Ohio hurley has never re- al
.eiyed much attention from the 81
growers except in few counties er