The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-01-10
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Canard County tobacco Establishes Re
cord Price, And Buyers From All
Over The Country Are Clam
oring FoI Il, The Demand
And Price Are Un-
precedented.

We have always contended, and hav,
often stated through these columns
that the qun'lty of tobacco raised il
Garrard county was not surpassed tn,
world over, and our contentious Ar,
now being daily borne out. On Janu
airy End. at the Madison county Ware
house in Richmond. with the opening
of the market for the new year, tn,
crop OF Messrs James and Steve Cur
tbs, about 1000 pounds. raised on 1
Back Creek bottom on their farm OF
the Kirksvile pike in this county
brought from 10 to 80 cents per pound
and AVERAGED % CENTS PEI
POUND. and contrary to the general
ty Of high grade tobacco. it did moi
weigh light. the crop was raised OF
about ~ acres of ground. and 400,
pounds of high grade tobacco on thi:
amount of ground is a splendid Weld
Since this sale buyers from all ovei
the county have been flocking into the
county oeking to buy tobacco. Scarce.
ly day but one or more foreign buy,
ers are registered at the local hotels
seeking high grade tobacco, and will
ing and anxious to pay fancy prices il
thev can secure just the article OF
which they are in search. GarrarC
county just now seems to be the Meccs
for all seekers after the high elias.
weed, and very few of them 20 away
disappointed.
When the Curtis crop was sold il was
thought surely the high water mark
was reached. but such was not the
case. on an adjoining farm. raised
upon identically the same class OF
ground. is the crop of Mr. Ben l..
Kelly, who for many years has been
considered the prize tobacco grower in
the state, his product usually topping
the market at the Lexington breaks,
where he has been accustomed to mar.
ket it. and so well is Mr.. Kelly's repu.
tation established as one of the best
growers and handlers in the state, that
the leading buyers await anxiously the
arrival of his offering on the market.
But this year. the tension grew too
great, after the Curtis crop was sold
and the report went abroad as to its
superior quality. buyers began to drop
in on Mr.. Kelly almost daily with
tempting offers for his crop. until one
party on last Saturday offered him the
handsome price Of S2S CENTS PER
POUND IN HIS BARN, which offer
was accepted and the crop will be
marketed over the Richmond breaks.
This does not mean that he is to have
this price for so many pounds and SO
many more at a smaller figure. or so
many pounds off,, but 32t cents per
pound for his entire crop at his barn,
the purchaser to bear the expense of
marketing it.
These prices establish beyond the
possibility of contradiction the fact
that we have the ground and that we
have the growers, the ground most adj
mirably adapted TO the raising of the
very highest grade of hurley tobacco.
and the men best acquainted with the
best methods Of handling the crcp.
from planting TO stripping, and of pre-
pairing it for market so that it will APP
pear TO the very best possible advan-
tage and command the best market
price.
All these things we have, and yet
are We dependent upon other counties
TO furnish US a market for our finished
product. thus vitiating by almost one
half the good result Of our favorable
condition and hard labor. and allowing
a vast amount of the profits to fall
into the Golfers of our more progressive
neighbors.
However, the awakening is at hand.
our people are rapidly coming to a
realization 'of the rare opportunity
which they have been allowing TO es-
cape them. and talk of the establish
ment Of home market is heard on
every hand. Men who have heretofore
taken little interest in the matter
have become interested, have at last
awakened from their Rip Van Wrinkle
lethargy, and have come To realize that
q splendid investment for them, and a