Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-27
TOBACCO IN VIRGINIA
AND OLD NORTH State
Leaf Selling Warehouses Are Still
Closed to Sellers and Buy.
crs Because Of "Flu."
OFFERINGS TO DATE IN CITY
Extra Good Crop OF Sun Cured and
Dark Shipping Has Been Saved.
Splendid Bright Crops in Two
States-Figurcs From Carolina.

The. strong voice of the leaf to-
o oae .h. aWy;Gtl9neer was not heard in any
state Council of Defense and the health
authorities siI that no gatherings for auc-
pending the influenza epidemic is still
~ N torce. No one knows. as yet. but
order will BIO revoked by November /,
and that loose leaf sales In the tobacco
s Warehouses 49, TO, OF virginia will be re-
Reports from Eastern North caro-
ma are to the effect that the infu-
enZa continues to rage In that region
ana the indications are that the MAR
november l. Furthermore II Is stated
mat the cotton planters OF that sec
ton are Offering Inducements 10 fac
ing the big cotton crop, and i'm nddi-
lion TO high pay, the open-uir work
is very entictng at this epidemic time.
II next TO impossible to get the hands
necessary to handle the tobacco in tina
ca's and prizeries. and this ma,
the Eastern Carolina markets even
after the epidemic scare has passed
A YEARS GOOD SALES
OF SUN-CURED LEAF
Numerous farmers in the sun-curing
6elt had not heard OF the closing Of
the Richmond warehouses and broueht
IN TOBACCO last week expecting to SELL
weed on the warehouse floors FOR sales
even II no more is received up to the
TIME the Warehouses are permitted to
The sales in Richmond since the
opening of the season. up TO Septem-
her 80. consisting almost entirely OF
which brought the average price Of
1926. The snles of primings since the
nrst OF October were 242,I6o pounds.
me rne sales nes OF leaf for the twelve months
last. amounted to a.774.S2O pounds. OF
this only 2l5.720 pounds are OF prim-
iings. the other, 9.569,6s0 pounds be-
Ing the regular sun-cured leaf The
average price for these offerings was
s24.29 per hundred pounds, which was
exactly sao9 per hundred more than
the previous year.
THIS YEARS VIRGINIA CROP
Is ABOVE AVERAGE
Richmond tobacco men. who have
oeen INVESTIGATING in Southside Nir-
crop this year. while not as large as
early estimates put IL. Is an unusually
hne crop This was proven by an eX-
Plies that were sent to this city to be
exhibited at the State Fair, which failed
10 open its exhibition halls. These
and black shippers as we'll as of sun
cured wrappers, The Olives" and
browns" were especially fine and the
long blacks" were declared by the
tobacco dealers who examined them to
be OF far better quality than last
years crop. 1t Will be more than a
month yet before these dark, olive and
brown shippers get on the Richmond
market.
The sales Of bright tobacco in the
warehouses of Danvflle for the season
have , amounted to S.26a.2+s pounds. and
that market has made the rcmnrkahIe
average OF s3o.31 per hundred pounds
Ihese sales include about 1000, 900
pounds Of primings. The average made
on the sales for the week before the
ee1osonS down OF the warehouses was
1895 per hundred. Throughout ali Of
IN, ne, virginia bright belt the tobacco of
cured, and the information from there
IS mat IT is one of the best crops that
has been made in the last decade.
FACTS AND FIGURES FROM
NORTH CAROLINA MARKETS
interesting figures from the North
Carolina markets for the months Of
august and septembcr have been fur
nlShed by the Commissioners of AEri-
culture OF that State. The total sale