Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
.SALES OF LEAF TOBACCO
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
Virginia Markets Are Doing Things
Right Up to the Good
Holidays.
VIRGINIA TOBACCO sELLs WE'LL
Very Good Reports Come From North
Carolina-Interior Virginia Mar
kets Doing Very Well--Many Of
Them Are Heard From.

Virginia. and over in North Carolina
MS a tobacco season." has come to
pass. Tho seasons and the clements
have been n little curious for several
months, and. ms matter OF fact, for
several years. Somehow tho seasons
have, changed their way Of coming
ABOUT. The time was when the to
bacco season" was I'm the habit of COM
ing along about the second or third
week in September. never later than
the first week in October. But last
year, and notably, this year; the thing
seems to have changed. There was
last year great deal of dry weather
at the times and seasons when the to-
bacco growers looked for good strip
ping weather." which weather did not
come. and this year 1t has been much
worse.
A QUESTION AND ITS
PROPER ANSWER
Have tho seasons changed, or what
is the matter?' Is the question a Gooch-
land County tobacco grower put up to
the Industrial editor Of The Times
Dispatch about four weeks ago. Look :
ing at the broiling sun that was Just
then shining. and looking ut the cloud
OF dust that was sweeping down the
principal streets of Richmond. the In
dustrial editor dared make no answer
further than to admonish the Gooch-
land County man to walt and see. He
waited. and he has seen. For the past
ten days there have been seasons that
are all that the most enthusiastic to-
bacco grower could look for. The gem
tie rains have fallen in the night time
and left the days open for good work,
and there has been kind of balmy at :
mosphere that was all to the good, so
far ms tobacco was concerned The re-
suit was that all of the tobacco grow
In Ill hat IL
Richmond have had ample opportunity
to strip their good leaf and prepare II
for market. They took advantage or
this opportunity and stripped g great
deal of, the weed, which they have
brought to the Richmond market In
great quantities.
ENORMOUS SALES THERE
WE'RE LAST WEEK
The sales last week on the floors Of
the Richmond warehouses ran up to
something more than a million pounds
and almost every pound OF 1t was OF
the sun-cured variety. 1t must be said
that the receipts OF the sun-cured leaf
were little in excess Of the demand,
and the farmers who have been market
Ing the weed to the extent OF not less
than n million pounds. were not es-
recially pleased with the accounts of
sales which they received. The truth
Is the sun-curcd goods are not selling
as well as they did n year ago, and the y
are not showing up In the good shape
that has heretofore been characteristic
of this good MARKET. About two con-
Germs are doing pretty much all OF tho
buying OF the sun-cured goods. and OF
course, they are not fretting them
selves about top notch prices. 1t is
their business to get the goods as cheap
as possible, and II must be said that
they are getting some of them mighty
cheap.
There are n half a dozen or more
spectators on the market who are
buying when they think they see a
good speculative bargain, but they are
II rather small aotatoe in the hill
What the Richmond market wants is
more active buyers of the weed, the
Find Of weed that hits this market In
the raw leaf state. The wnrehousemen
ere doing all In their power TO get
these new Kind of buyers on the mar
ket, and the inducements they offer
will doubtless bring them I'm time, but
the fact remains that they are not here
this year.
The executive committee of the To-
oacco Association held meeting Fri
cay afternoon, and decided to hold q
good long Christmas holiday. Accord
Ing to the resolutions they adopted the
last sales Of the year will evcntuate
on tho eighteenth of December. After
January 5.
OTHER MARKETS THAT HAVE
BEEN HEARD FROM
Lynchburg reports that Jno. o. Ogles-
by. the statistician of the Hill City,
tells of sales as follows:
Sold week ending December IL.
970,900 pounds; sold week. ending De-
cember 4. $1,000 pounds: Increase this
week. 454.200 pounds; sold from Sep
TENDER 1 to December IL, 1,921,s
pounds.
Sales were heavy. as anticipated. and
would have been larger but for the
inclement weather.
large majority of the offerings
were inferior, being last cuttings that
did not mature.
All good grades were in strong de-
mand, and brought satisfactory prices.
Taking into consideration the In
ferior quality Of the tobacco, the aver
age price was fully up to expectations
New Alberta Market.
ALBERTA, VA, December 1.-THE
sales here this week have been heavier
than any time since tho r,nrlat 0napa1