Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-11
GREAT TOBACCO CROPS
NOW STANDING ON HILLS
VirGfnia's ancient Staple VIII Have
Great Chance in This Good
Year Of Grace.
SEASON GENERALLY FAVORABLE
Numbers Of Counties That Have Been
Heard From-Sun-Curing Grow
ers Are Up To Snur-BriHht Belt
in the Swim.

I pcSsim,St, that is TO say. he IL always
trying 10 make il appear tina, 'the'"next
crap" is sure to he short in NIL OF tho
WAYS that &" TO make up n short crop
As carly as the second week in Feb
! ruary he will begin to tell about the
difficulty OF burning the plant beds:
and March will hardly dawn before he
will he cryins over the destruction the
/ bugs and the trosts have caused to the
plants. md then with the beginning Of
April and so on through May. II YOU
believe him. YOU Will get the idea that
the seasons. NIL OF them. have been all
wrong, and there is no possible chance
! TO make any tobacco this year.
We have been hearing all or this sort
81 talk all Of this good year 1915. and
IL the talk could possibly be believed
! the natural conclusion would he that
! there will he very little tobacco grown
/ in NirRinia this year. Bur this talk
is not believed As 4 matter of tact.
there is not very much truth in II.
There vas. perhaps. never n better
prospect for 4 great tobacco crop In
! all parts Of Virginia and the other
parts OF the South that grow tobacco.
than there is right now. OF coarse
things may happen and conditions ma,
good prospect into n cooked hat. hut il
Is not once in 100 years that such
prospects AS have developed Ivy the
I LIST Of July go contrary TO. that de-
NeIoPment Rltef thRt date
SOME FACTS FROM
suN-CTRING REGIONS
The prospects. as they appeared on
; the first OF this month point Ito one Of
the finest and best crops Of tobacco that
Virginia and North Carolina have
known FOR ut least two decades past
This optimistic outlook is not confined
I" one LEGALITY. o. ono tobacco yrowinc
region but II is true OF an OF tho varied
! REGIONS Tho reports from the sun
curing counties are to the cffec, that
good crops were set out and that tho
seasons have been favorable. the plants
having gotten good start, and All
indications arc that there will he
nne crop II is true that the cron may
not be a,tosethcr AS large as in some
FORMER years. duc to the fact that
farmers In tho sun curing belts arc
hndinS out that there is good money
IN grain ana hay and some things other
IMAM tobacco. In man. section. they
nave reduced their tobacco acreage to
increase their grain and alfalfa acre
age. ana this is rafting good thing
for them To do. However, they have
put in good lot Of tobacco pla nts. and
3" far the weed is doing remarkably
we'll Seasons being favorable from
now on--as faNorabic AS they have been
from no" back-there VIII be great
crop of the sun-cured leaf this wear
and while tho acreage may he sonn
what reduced. the weight Of tho weed
/ may I've increased. and certainly the
quality will likely he advanced .apd
altogether. here is wager Of dollars
20 a"ushnuts that the sun.curcd crop
OF 1919 Will br'nG more money than
did that Of 1914. whether il weighs nut
as much OF not
0PTIMiST REPORTS EaOu
THE bright BEI.T
From the bright belt. the Industrial
section mas special information to the
enect that the seasons have so far
neeh all that the most optimistic old
tobacco worm could ask for Extracts
orie' ones from few letters. will
cover the whole territory and tho whole
situation. From Charlotte Comfy
comes letter. in response to Inquiries
which reads somewhat as follows: In
inc bright growing section OF Char
lotte the seasons have hcen very fa
vorabie Early enough the plant beds
budded forth, and when the ground
| was Just right FOR the setting out OF
hic tobacco crop the plant beds were
moro than ready. The rains the soak
lhs rains. came just in the very best
'ihe Tor plant setting, and it Is quite
sure that all of this county took adj
vantage OF the weather and the sea
| sons II rs sure that in this county a
] great. bright crop has heen set out.
ana with favorable season. from now
T., on Charlotte viii come pretty close to
being the banner bright tobacco grow
! ing county.
OLD PIT"TSYLNANIA SHOWS
tP IN GREAT SHAPE
Ihe correspondent who wrote as
above thinks he knows a thing or Two.
but he will he q little set back when
ne hcars from ihttsylvania County 4
| special writer from that great bright
..t
AFRAID our bright tobacco growers are
gong to over do the thing this wear.
/ MY informant from all parts of the
: county Is to the effect that the seasons
! from the plant he'd burning UP to date
J have been 80 favorable the farmers
Just could not resist the temptation TO
over crap themselves. feel sure,
from all ! have heard that Pittsylvania
mas set out more tobacco this year than
III any one wear for the past ten. But.
they are In better shape financially
ana otherwise, to look after n big crop
! than they have been for ten years
past. and they are going TO look after
. ii TOO
ftLIFtN BA>kS STRONG
on SOUTH BOSTON
Halifax County man writes: Our
great south Spston market has made
us farmers ali kinds OF Inducements TO
pat IN big crop MS year. We have
'' "'''i'thite q! lHltn IN SOnth boston:
/ N It's promises its financial ability TO
keen It's promises and it's determination
+ l" max" that good town a great bright
l'"' tobacco center. and We are bank
! snc on south Boston. and South Roston
is banking on us Halifax County farm
trS. Inc seasons have been kind To
ne. and am sure that tho tobacco
growers have done bigger work this
year Than they haze in any one year
FOR the PAST decade More acres are
now sol oHt IN bright tobacco. and
: ih"r" - better prospect FOR il than
~ have kno~n for many lonn wears
count or Halifax FOR a position at the
d heah OF tn" army Of briGht-tohacco
growers this year I am sure we Will
make Rocd. and South iIos,on IL going
7 u" see I" u mat we do not get left"
nc REPORTS FROM
sE\ERAI. OTHER COUNTIES
Reports from Henry County. from
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