The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-01-31
WAREHOUSEKAN R. D. C0THRAN THINKS
TOBACCO WILL BRING HIGH PRICES This YEAR
Prices in Kentucky Have Been the Highest Known
Tobacco Firms Are Buying Heavy Especially of
the Export Crop-Advses Care in Planting Crop

is also blest with a good sheep, cat
tie, hog, horse, and mule crop. Hogs
are worth at this writing $11.35 in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The readers Of the Manning Times
will recall that wrote an article
some time ago from Winston Salem,
North Carolina in which l stated that
this was the best time the farmer
had ever known. AS / see it the
farmers opportunities now for max
ing money are the greatest in the
history of this country.
l have very recently read an arti-
Gle in, which the farm products of
America for 1916 were quoted as be-
ing more than $13,OO0,0oO, 100000, this
exceeds the entire output for 1916
by about 3,00O,000,0OoO0.
This is wonderful country in
which we live, and one that certain
ly should make the farmer get up
earlier this year than ever before,
you have an optomistic outlook for
everything that you can grow upon
the farm. I expect to see the truck
growers Of Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina reap harvest this
spring. Plant you some early truck,
you will find splendid market in
the North for same. / wrote this
some time ago but it is worth repeat
ing.
Now going back to tobacco, be GER
tain and plant what you can cultivate
l expect to see it sell high. l give
the following reasons:. the world is
| short in its supply of tobaccos, and
especially export types which we
grow in South Carolina. The Big
Four are largely buying the Kentucky
crop. They also bought the North
Carolina and Virginia crops. The
independent buyers and exporters are
open for purchases of export types
Of tobaccos. You will see them we'll
represented on the South Carolina
markets next summer. In my judg-
ment they are going to make things
hum. Try your level best to make a
good colory crop of tobacco, and if
you do / feel certain you will be
highly pleased with the prices that
will be paid you next summer. Let
me repeat that tobaccos are selling
higher than ever saw them sell on
an average in my 20 years experience
as Leaf Tobacconist. We have not
sold as much tobacco this week as
we would have sold had not about
l8 inches of snow wrapped us up
about eight days ago.
We have had lots of zero weather
OF late, put on my heavy overcoat
and rubbers over my shoes and 20
down to the warehouses clad like an
Eskimo or Laplander. 1t is so diff
ferent from our sunny South Caro-
lima where l sell tobacco for the boys
and try to get by with as few clothes
as possible.
The farmers for the last week have
been bringing their tobacco to mar
ket on two horse sleds or drags made
in wagon shape without wheels, this
device slides along on the snow. 1t
is raining today and the snow is
melting very fast. The Ohio River
is rising rapidly. We are expecting
about 65 feet Of water, which is "A
very common spell for this big branch
or creek which ever you choose TO
call it, to pull off at this time of year.
The river is 600 yards wide at this
point, and is moving peacefully along
to join her big ally, the father of
waters, the Mississippi, farther South.
With best wishes for all my friends
IN Clarendon county and South Caro-
lima, as whole, am still the tobac-
co man who sweats and pulls hard
for the boys down at the Central
Tobacco Warehouse located in Glan-
ming, South Carolina.
Yours very respectfully,
r. D. Cothran.