The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-12-03
A GENERAL REVIEW OF T0BAC.
co MARKET CONDITIONS.

In view of the early opening of the
loose leaf tobacco market a general
review OF the market conditions for
1918 may be of interest to produc-
ers and buyers of the leaf in Ken
lucky. Based upon study Of con-
ditions as set forth in the Novem-
Der, 1918, issue of the Monthly Crop
Report distributed by the Bureau Of
Crop Estimates of the United States
Department of Agriculture, the fol-
lowing statistics on tobacco are
available.
timated for November /, 1918, in the
entire United States amounts to L.
226, 6S6,000 pounds, as compared
with 1885, 47S,000 pounds for No
vember /, 1917, a gain of 81 100000
pounds, and the acreage planted in
1918 was four-tenths of one per
cent. greater than that planted last
year.
Kentucky Conditions.
The December estimates for Ken
lucky grown tobacco for 1917 shows
a total production of 426, 100000
pounds. while the November estimate
for 1918 shows a production of $685.
10000 pounds, falling off of 49,
100000 pounds, as compared with
last year. No statistics are available
showing in which classes of tobacco
this decrease took place as, produc-
ton figures on the various kinds Of
tobacco grown in Kentucky are not
given in any reports available at this
time.
Stocks of Kentucky grown to-
bacco in the hands of dealers and
manufacturers as of October for the
mast two years are as follows:
Burley, 1918, 190,137,019 pounds;
1917, 2O7,593,654 pounds.
Dark. District of Kentucky and
Tennessee, 1918, 315,854,704 pounds;
1917, 212,479,0S1 pounds.
Dark fired, GAINESVILLE, Hopkins
vile and Paducah District, 1918,
1877 ,106,700 pounds; 1917, 12S,01O,-
SOC pounds.
Henderson, 1918, 22,SS6,l93
pounds; 1917, 16.422.702 pounds.
Green River, 1913, 59,960,479
pounds; 1917, 49,4S4,116 pounds.
One Sucker. 1918, 35,901, 1892
pounds; 1917, 1S,561,754 pounds.
The total socks of tobacco in the
entire United States in the hands of
dealers were, 1918, 1,264,883,78S
pounds; 1917, 1,154,056,034.
While the dealers stocks of vari-
Gus Kentucky types of tobacco are
shown by the above statistics to be
larger this year than at the same
time last year, the difference is not
more than the average annual varia-
ton at this time of the year. The
stocks of Burnley on hand are shown
to be 1856, 635 pounds short OF last
years dealers stocks.
A review of the above figures,
which do not show any very married
divergence from normal conditions,
when taken together with the staDil-
ity of the present export and donnes-
tic demands seems to indicate a
strong market for the tobacco crop
of the present year, especially In the
case of Burley, and there is nothing
in the report which should cause I'M
easiness in the market. 1t is quite
probable that any increase in SIP
plies of dark tobacco will be more
than offset by the demand on markets
soon to be opened in Central Europe,
West Coast of Africa and other coun-
tries formerly depending upon this
type OF tobacco for import from the
United States 1t must be remem-
bered also that the commerce of the
war has introduced American tobac-
co to many new markets not previ-
ously large buyers of American to-
bacco. The even marketing Of the
crop will tend to steady the market.