New Britain herald., 1917-03-02
EIVTUCkY TOBACCO
 liROWERS GLEEfUL
Crop Sold at Top Price for All Grades

sls .i # &1ouisville, Ky, March . Kentucky smers who raise approximately one ird of the t6tacco ,bpauceA in tho alted States, and about one-tenth of e crop produced in the world. are
 joyins the, nnu.u4t fssiti6n of mar stanx for record4 breaking prices . 0p of almost record breaking slse. Fin addition to being one of the r8est crops ever produced in this Ate Kentucky's output this year Is
 unusual quality. Leaf, Jugs and I{oSh, as they are called in the termi- SIogy Of the tobacco trade. are of e finest cii4racter..s TliegtSaf tobAeco, long clear teaf which Ac0nes from l te middle of the plant Jugs are the lsavy leaves. possibly spotted by the Ijl which has been Sra$ahed on them F rain, which grow at the bottom 6ilc trash is made up of small ina- I
 turc leaf at the atopsof the plant. Bo good, has the quality been that
 fmers are becoming accustomed to
 ceivinS I prpportionately higher
 3ces for fhr poorer saad es than they
 for the best. These poorer grades
 psSeptial to the production of cer-
 
 Ind the bidding for them has been Zen. Even frosted tobacco. which
 former years sold for one or two
 nfs Q pound. and was used only for
 - making of. an extract shipped 4foad to be used in fortifying cer- 1an sorts of foreign tobaccos, are
 Gging prices farmers would have
 glad to obtain for trash of the
 t grade last year.
 Within recent years Kentucky
 Emers have received an average e3ce for all qualities of white barley, Elba back bone of the tobacco crop - this state. of about $10 a hundred ounds. Sales on tho various mar ets this year have been at an aver |&6e price of $16 to $16.50 . hundred rounds. The crop of white burley |1His year will run we'll over 100000 |1eo pounds.
 Tobacco produced in the 'Black Eatch" or the dark tobacco region of estern and southern Kentucky has Experienced an advance in price even |5Aore remarkable than that scored by - burleyf of tho Blue Grass" sec 'S Pryor leaf" for which the farmer 4tAin recent years was glad to get n average price of live to six cents F pound. Is now selling at approx stnately twelve cents . pound.
 g One farmer sold, his crop on the ONensboro market at an average price of thirty cents a pound, break I1ng all previous records, it is said, for prices paid for this character of 4obacco.
 | As result of these conditions mill Hons of pounds of tobacco are being 1ahel by the farmers of the state Ach week. and 1t Is estimated by to- Acco men that farmers have now re-; seased greater portion of their crop than has been out of their hands at s3kis season for many years.
 M Much fof this tobacco is sold on the oors of small '.loose leaf'' ware Ouses in the smaller towns. where 4he weed is sorted as to quality and aisplayed in open baskets for the in- Nbection of buyers.
 About .20O.00O,00O pounds of to- Bacco is sold each year on the Louis Sflle "breaks'' in hogsheads. This to- Aacco Is sold on the basis of sample lrawn indiscriminately from. the. in- 4erior of the hogshead.s Much of the Tobacco bought on the loose feaf'' floors is packed in: hogsheads and re- 1bld on the breaks" Tn addition a 39rge quantity of Kentucky tobacco Eoes to the market It Cincinnati. ft 4