The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-01-15
TOBACCO
RAI5ER5 ARE
PROSPEROUS
REcoRD-6REAKlNG PRICES FOR
a REcoRD-6REAKlNG CROP is
THE SITUATION IN "oLD KAHN
TUCK"

Louisville, Ky, Jan. 14.-Kentucky
farmers who raise approximately one.
third of the tobacco produced in the
United States, and about one-tenth of
the crop produced in the world, are
enjoying the unusual position of mar
keting for record breaking prices
crop of almost record-breaking size.
In addition to being one OF the lar
lgest crops ever produced in this state,
kentuckys output this year is of un-
usual quality. Leaf, lugs and trash,
las they are called in the terminology
Of the tobacco trade, are Of the finest
character. The leaf tobacco is long
clear leaf which comes from the
middle Of the plant lugs are the heavy
leaves, possibly spotted by the soil
which has been splashed on them BY
lrain which grow at the bottom; while
trash is made up Of small immature
tleaf at the top Of the plant.
SO good has the quality been that
farmers are becoming accustomed to
receiving proportionately higher pri-
ces for the poorer grades than they
do for the best These poorer grades
are essential to the production of Ger.
tain brands of manufactured tobacco
and bidding for them has been keen.
Even frosted tobacco, which in former
years sold for one or two cents per
pound, and was used only for the max
ling of an extract shipped abroad to be
used in fortifying certain sorts Of
foreign tobaccos, are bringing prices
farmers would have been glad to OBJ
tain for trash in the first grade last
year.
Within recent years Kentucky farm.
ers have received an average price
for all qualities of white hurley, the
backbone of the tobacco crop in this
state of about so a hundred pounds.
Sales on the various markets this year
have been at an average price of SIC
to $3.50 a hundred pounds. The crop
Of white hurley this year will run
well over 2OO,OOO,OO0 pounds.
Tobacco produced in the "Back
Patch" or the dark tobacco region Of
western and southern Kentucky ha.
experienced an advance in price ever
more remarkable than that scored
by the hurley of the Blue Grass sec
. ton
Pryor leaf" for which the farmer
within recent years was glad to ge
an average price Of five to six cent!
, pound, is now selling at approXi
mately twelve cents a pound.
Within the last few days, one farme
sold his crop on the Owensboro mar
+ ket at an average price of thirty cent
I pound, breaking all previous records
, / it is said, for prices paid for this char
acter Of tobacco.
As result Of these conditions mil
! ions of pounds of tobacco are bein
S rushed to market by the farmers o
. the state each week, and It is est
/ mated by tobacco men that farmer
$ have now released a greater portio
. of their crop than has been out O
their hands at this. season Tor man
years.
S Much of this tobacco is sold on tn
a floors of small loose lear ware
$ houses in the smaller towns, where Jh
t week is sorted as to quality and di.
ployed in open baskets for the inspeC
- tion of buyers.
i About 2OO,OOO,OOO pounds Of Tobacco
is sold each year on the Louisville
breaks" in hogsheads. This Tobacco
is sold on the basis Of a sample draw
indiscriminately from the interior o
D the hogshead. Much of the Tobacco
] bought on the "loose lear floors i
r packed in hogsheads and resold OF
} 1.-THE breaks" In addition larg
quantity of Kentucky tobacco goes t,
5 the market at Cincinnati.