Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-07

The season for the sale of loose-lcaf
tobacco in Richmond Is practically
closed for the simple reason that there
is no more OF the leaf remaining in
the hands OF the farmers TO be dis
posed Of No crop ever raised by the
farmers who sell their leaf in the loose
state on the Richmond market was
ever sold out quickly as was the
crop Of 1916. The rule, from time i'm
memorial. has been 10 commence SELL
ing the crop OF any one year I'm the
fall, not earlier than the middle of
October. and the last of the weed Of
that years growing was not placed OH
the warehouse floors for sale until the
latter part OF July or first OF August
following. For several years past.
however. the growers of the sun-cured
tobacco, all of which type Of the weed
is marketed in Richmond. have been
winding up the business of marketing
earlier and earlier. and this year they
have broken the record by cleaning NJ
their barns by the first OF May. This
rapid selling has been due largely, il
not altogether. 10 the fact that this
season sun-curcd tobacco has com :
manded higher priccs than have been
known in twenty years more, per-
haps better than have been known
since tho sun-cured became so popular
as q chewing tobacco. The table print
cd above shows IN dollars and cents
the growing popularity Of the sun
cured weed and why the sales were
fast and furious this season.
DARK SHIPPING TOBACCO
IS SOLD BY SAMPLE
The fre-cured, or dark. shipping to-
baccos sold on the Richmond market
are for the most part shipped here in
hosshcads and sold by sample in the
Offices OF the commission merchants
Perhaps not over 100000 pounds were
sold this past season in the loose state
Therefore. at least 100000 pounds of
the seven and quarter sold in the
warehouses this season were OF the
sun cured
The following table, made from the
books Of the secretary Of the Tobacco
Board OF Trade Of Richmond. shows
the stocks Of tobacco on hand in the
londcd warehouses the first OF May for
the past three years:
1918 .o0.o6a hogsheads
1915 o3,le4 hogsheads
1917 26,1ll hogsheads
These goods now in the storage ware
houses comprise all STYLES and types
Of tobacco handled by the leaf deal
ers except the sun cured tobaccos. The
sun-cured Is mostly bought on the
warehouse floors in the loose state by
the manufacturers OF chewing tobacco.
not passing TO any extent through the
hands OF dealers and SPECTATORS and
is removed direct from the warehouse
10 the factories or warehouses OF the
manufacturers, and when stored for flu
ture use is kept i'll their own private
storage esta blshments. The $4,000
and more hoGsheads in the bonded
warehouses are made up of bright to-
bacc"& bought by Richmond dealers
on 9th markets and shipped to them
here hre-cured or dark shipping to-
bacco. held for export. and white bur-
Icy. shipped here from the West for
sale or storage. There are really no
stocks OF sun-cured tobacco on hand.
Il having passed direct from the grow
or 10 the manufacturer.
The fact shown by the above figures
mat there are now on storage in the
bonded warehouses something over g.
goo hoEsheads more than a year ago
is explained by the further fact that
about 5000 hogsheads now on hand
were bought on order last season and
INC season before for the Austrian and
German governments and are being
he!d Tor them out of season because
OF the impossibility of shipment to