The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-01-19
Mr., Cothran in Kentucky.

| want space in your paper 10 tell n
friends something Of my whereabout
since leaving Manning. I come direc
10 MayeSviIe, Kentucky, got here OF
7th OF December, market opened u
for business the 9Th. We did not sci
much tobacco during December OWN:
TO the fact that the farmers did no
have it graded and ready for market
Since January 1st We have been sell
ing worlds of the weed. We hav
here eight large tobacco warehouses
some OF them the largest tobacco ware
! houses in the world. We are now hav
ing double set of buyers for each
day. and then we block and 60 not ge
around in day selling from Two bund
red aud fifty to three hundred plies OF
the floor with two seperace sales golnE
on at the same time:
This mark-t alone will Sell half a:
much tobacco as the entire SIT. -
South Carolina did in 1915 nentuck
alone sells around 400, 900. 600 annually
but will fall short this time, possibly 81
10 IS per cent 10 weight.
Now what want to get before our
people is this, tobacco prices are high
er than | ever saw them in this State
And especially is this true with the
bright light types OF smoking tobacco
[ have been in the tobacco business
since 1898. and I think we are having
the best market for the kind of tobac.
co that is being offered ] ever-saw.
l find that not only was South Caro-
lima. North Carolina and Virginia hit
lard in short production in 1915, bur
that Kentucky, Ohio. West Virginia
and IDdianna ard also Tennessee was
effected by the same late spring in 49,
Is, and also by the poor seasons during
the growing season.
So reader and tobacco planter. you
can observe from reading this that af-
Ter all it was not so much the kind OF
yuano or fertilizer that we used IN
South Carolina last year that Knocked
our production down as was 1t done to
the bad tobacco season which prevailed
over the entire tobacco producing
country.
Now boys YOU can take the above for
what ever value you put on it: you can
nave it at par if you want it. Bat
wrat I want 10 get before our people
now is this. I believe 1916 will be the
year to grow bright tobacco in South
Carolina. Tobacco for more than Il
year has been listed as contraband, but
Il short while back this was lifted, ard
we now have open shipping facilities
to Europe This no doubt has been Il
great help towards making better
prices. hope our people will net o.
at the prices received
1915 and lose out in this year.
Gentlrnen YOU have YOUR tobacco
barrs. hues, ETC.. already bought and
paid for. All of YOU that planted 10
bacco last year and as many new ones
as want TO go into it this year. walk
right 10, roll up your sleeves aud take
"A shot. l am not Il prophet, but BE-
lirve this will be a good year TO plant
tobacco in South Carolina l hope oar
merchants and business men in general
from whom our farmers get their fertI-
izers and supplies will not hesitate To
help the boys out. 1t certainly Will
DOT he wise u go c".Zt over thr pro-
Gu..tion Of cotton, no farmrr Shou de-
p nd upon anv one certain crop when
he can grow several. just let the mer.
chaut supply more, get it out OF his
head at once if he has the idea there
that everybody should plant all cotton.
You can take the tobacco planter OF
Clarendon county, and he has made
more clear money out of growing to
tobacco than he ever did Kiug cotton.
take it one year with another.
Now Mr.. merrhaat, for your good.
and for the good OF your country. and
fur the good Of the farmer 70 whom
YOU furnish supplies from about 1915
ana help the man again tnat wan:s 10
plant tobacco as we'll as cotton. Ii you
die not get apv money much oGt OF his
tobacco it waso'c his fault, he did not
make any tobacco hardly WORTH gath.
ering. Did YOU fud cotton profitable
the fall of 1914. and the country was
full of It too Some one will say am
writing this for my own Selfish inter-
est. | am not, l am writing ,:Iis for
the people of our county in genera! and
include myself among them. All the
tobacco dealers that had b;g SOCKS on
hand have unloaded at Il profit and viii
40 doubt be on the South Earo!ln&
market next summer and heI p to make
our prices good, which | fully eNosct
to see.
have tobacco seed for distribution
free at Home Bank and Trust Co. Get
your seed, plant plenty Of plant land,
be sure and select good places on south
side Of a branch for your beds. Plenty
of plants grown in good time for April
trausplantipg is hat you should have.
You can not grow good tobacco unless
you prepare your beds for plants well,
and secondly, be sure and prepare Your
beds well where YOU intend to trans
plant your plants, use rested land when
you possibly can. tobacco always grows
better on rested land.
Here's wishing our people profile
ble anI successful year.
Respectfully,
r. d. Cothran.