The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1914-07-16
TOBACCO OUTLOOK
MOST ENCOURAGING,
REPORTS INDICATE 25 PER CENT
INCREASE IN THE ACREAGE
THIS YEAR.

Columbia, July l2:-lnasmuch as
the tobacco harvest and marketing
season is about to open, the State
Department of Agriculture mas been
busy during the past week getting
full information at first hand in re-
gard to the crop conditions and in
regard to the markets and ware
houses that will be operated this
season, this being necessary owing to
the fact that every pound of tobac-
co sold in the State must be report
ed by months to the department.
Last week M j Miller, chief clerk
of the department, spent several
days going through the tobacco ter.
ritory. visiting the warehouses and
the warehousemen and getting COM
plete data preliminary to sending
out the necessary blanks.
Commissioner Watson in summa-
rizing the information that has been
obtained gives the following inter-
esting data in regard to the outlook
and to the market season:
TOBACCO OUTLOOK.
The tobacco season in South Car
DINA this year promises to be one of
the best in the history of the State.
Last year 33,299,5 SCI pounds of to-
bscco were raised and sold in the
State and brought to the producers
the sum of S4.584, ,339. 81 AN increase
of 81 per cent over the preceding
year in production and nearly ST.
100000 more than the preceding
year in money value. The average
price paid per pound was 1877
cents. At the height of the season
last year there were 19 markets op-
Grating az warehouses. The markets
were: Conway, Darlington, Dillon,
Florence. Hemingway, Johnsonville,
Kingstree, Lake City, Lamar, Latta,
Loris, Manning, Marion. Mayesville,
Mullins, Nichols, Olanta, Pages Mills
ana 1lmm0nSVllle.
This season it appears that there
will be only two warehouses that
were open last year not in operation
this year, one at Mayesville and one
a. Florence. There will be in opera
ton this season the following new
warehouses: One at Aynor, two at
Hartsville, one at Hemingway, one
at Kingstree, one at Manning, two
at Pamplico, one at Sumter, one at
Olanta, one at Cheraw and probably
one at Dorchester.
This means the establishment of
al least five, and probably six, new
markets this year-Aynor, Pampli-
CO, Hartsville, Sumter, Cheraw and
Dorchester.
THE handling of the tobacco crop
in South Carolina is largely handled
and conducted by two tobacco ware
housemen's associations, the one op-
Grating in the territory west Of the
Pee-Dee. which met during the past
week and organized for the season,
electing W E Lea of Timmonsville
president and G H Pegram of Flor
ence secretary. and the other oper-
ating east of the Pee-Dee, of which
RM Winn of Mullins is secretary,
and which will meet to organize for
the season at Mullins July Is.
"At the meeting at Florence the
general condition of the crop was
discussed and information reported,
and the proper steps taken for the
opening of the marketing season.
1T has been agreed by both asso-
Citations to open the tobacco market
ing season in all warehouses through
out the tobacco territory July %,
and the indications are that there
will be very large amount of to-
oacco of fine quality offered at the
several breaks
In regard to the crops this year
the reports indicate an increase of
25 per cent in acreage in the terri
tory around Kingstree, with the
yield per acre equally as good as last
year.
Around Manning there was 25
per cent increase in acreage, but ow-
ing to adverse conditions only about
rs per cent of a stand has been OBJ
ta;ned. Around Hartsville some