The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-08

baCco crop or 1919 prepared by the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and printed in its
issue OF July s.
The tobacco crop of the United
States will be larger this year than it
was in 1918, if the statistics gathered
by The Enquirer in every tobacco
producing section of the country are
to be regarded as rejecting the actual
acreage planted. $3.50
A crop report at planting time can
be taken only as a basis for making
estimates of the probable production
at harvest time, but The Enquirer's
tobacco crop estimates in previous
Years have invariably been substan-
tiated by the quantities of tobacco dis
posed Of during the following sales
season in the open markets.
This year conditions for the most
part seem to have been favorable to
the setting out of the crop in almost
every section, and while apparently
there has been little If any effort to
materially increase the acreage, grow
ers generally were encouraged by the
nigh prices paid for the 1918 crop to
prepare more ground than last season.
Kentucky, the worlds largest single
tobacco growing section, while estab-
fishing no new record, seems to have
set out one Of its largest crops. North
Carolina Will run close second to
Kentucky this year with acreage al
most as great. South Carolina reports
larger area set to tobacco than in
1918, and Virginia compares favorably
with slight increase. OF the other
important producers, Ohio, Pennsyl
Vania and Tennessee seem to have
set out a smaller crop than In 1918
with the greatest proportionate shrink,
age in the first named.
Record Crop Indicated
Statistics carefully compiled by The
Enquirer from the reports OF cores
pondents in every tobacco-producing
county in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana
and from all the important growing
bacco in the United States in 1919 OF
1,564,704 acres.
This is an increase over the acreage
reported from the same sources for
1918 Of 6S,668 acres, or almost pei
cent The governments final estimate
of the 1918 acreage was 1,549, 900 acres
Thus an increase over those figures OF
1904 acres, or slightly more than I
per cent, is indicated for the current
year, and inasmuch as the area last
year was the largest ever recorded fol
the entire United States, 1t is not un
likely that the crop harvested at the
close of this season will be record
breaker in every respect.
An estimate of the probable produc
ton of tobacco in the various sections
based upon the average yield per acre
for the past ten years, indicates a to
tai harvest of 1915, 6S1, 025 pounds Of
tobacco for 1919. an increase over the
estimates from the same sources fol
last year, of 39,924,575 pounds, OIL
more than 3 per cent. Compared with
the final estimate Of the 1918 crop by
the government, which was given a
1,340,O19,000 pounds, there would be
an apparent reduction in yield this
year amounting to 24,337,9 75 pounds
or not quite 2 per cent. This differ
ence may be attributed to the varying
conditions in the important producing
sections at planting time and favor
able growing seasons during July anC
August, as we'll as early September
will contribute much to the expansion
of the EnquirerS estimate which ma,
be regarded as somewhat conserva
tive.
In the Burley belt there will unques
tionably be a larger crop than las
year. though the increase may be com
paratively slight. A careful tabula
ton Of the reports received indicate!
distribution for the Burley belt a.
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