Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-18
TOBACCO SEASON OPENS,
H|CH-PR|CED PR|M|NGs
Stare on With IL Twenty-Five
Dollar Average.
AMAZING FIGURES RECORDED
All Markets Starting Up Earlier.
Eastern Carolina Opens the Ball
This WcclI-RiChmond Will BE in
Ring September 3.

Several of the bright tobacco MAJ
kets of Virginia opened the 191S-19
selling season last Thursday. and all
had goodly quantities of primingS to
offer the eager buyers. The reports
from those markets are that leaf to-
bncco was never before known to start
off at such high figures. In ut least
two of the markets the leaf tobacco
known as primings, that is the leaf
that Is first stripped from the stark
by the farmers. and some years ago
was thrown away as being worthless
or ut least not worth the hauling to
the markets, sold all the way from 81
to beyond $40 per 100 pounds, the
average on one of the markets for
something like 10000 pounds sold
Thursday and Friday, being over So
per 100.
The demand for these primings that
were once thrown away has been Gre
ated by the cigarette. the same being
used in the manufacture OF these little
smokers. and for the past several years
the farmers have been saving every leaf
of them and giving special attention
TO their curing in the barn. On all the
markets they are the first goods to
he offered when the season for selling
tobacco opens.
In the South Carolina markets tho
sales for the season SO far have reach
ed 600oo.ooo pounds. This Is moro
than some OF the prophets estimated
the entire South Carolina crop would
amount TO: and the report is that there
are yet from 100000 to 10000, 600
pounds Of the weed to be sold in that
State. all of which will be marketed
by the first Of September.
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
MARKETS GETTING STARTED
All Of the markets in Virginia and
North Carolina Will open up earlier
this year than usual AS stated, some
opened last week. Others will open
the first week In September All of the
Eastern North Carolina markets. Rocky
Mount. Wilson. Kinston. GreenYille and
the smaller. ones. will begin business
on tuesday next, and the tobacco man
,here Will he kept busy until the las,
leaf OF the 1918 crop is sold
In the Sun-curing territory which
markets altogether in Richmond, more
rriminEs have been saved this yea
IMAM ever known before and the sea-
sons having proved favorable for their
harvesting and curing the Richmond
Warehouses will have to open for bust
ness much sooner than usual. the first
week in September. TO begin the s,le
OF Drimings and by the tine thes.
goods are exhausted the sun-cured leaf
proper Will be ready for marketing.
oSualiy the Richmond market opeps
IN the latter part OF October and some,
times not until the first or second week
in November
DANVILLE STARTS OFF
AWAY UP IN PITE, CLOUDS
The Danville market opened on
thursday with something over 30. 300
pounds of the weed on the warehouse
noors. and the buyers were out in fun
IVrce 10 start the ball to rolling in tn.
most animated way ever known. even
IN that famous bright tobacco mari
H. L. D!orcll the president of the D,,.
vile Tobacco Board of Trade. tells Tn.
iimes- Dispatch of the opening day. ana
me conditions as they appear in the
ptlsht belt at the present time. He
writes:
The 1918 crop season opened Thurs
aaS with an offering Of some thirty
oud thousand pounds OF primings which
ranged in price from &c for the very
lowest grade that in former wears
would not find a bidder at any price.
10 4"c Tor fine color and quality, suit
able for high grade cigarettes The
average on the days sales was $3.50
per hundred. At these prices the