Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-09
shLES OF LEAF TOBACCO
in VIRGINIA CAROLINA
View Belt Bright Markets Have
Reached Seasons End, and Ware
houses Close for Season.
BRIGHT BELT MARKETS ACTIVE
SSun-Cured Leaf Lower in Richmond,
While Dark Shipping Types Sell
g., 80, Observation-Disclosures County Weed
81 Brings Big Money.

brings Big Money.
8'l;a
~ There were good sales of loose leaf
1 oltna markets last week: The East
ern Carolina marts wound UP the sea-
; sons work. the crops crown in that
about sold out. The warehouses are
oficiaily closed and the few Struggling
Of the w Xii be sold i n pre
as the are brought in from now until
II d Belt bright markets are
nea-e' he end. both in Virginia and
No Carolina. There were fairly
fafs" liveries in these markets last
szxc...- ne farmers seeming bent upon
rus. the remainder OF their weed
to the warehouses before they have 10
sSs %g With hs care out Of Of Plans Re e eeds
of 1919. The goods being delivered in
these markets now are the ''scrapins;s
some good leaf that was held back for
the last. mixed In: The result is that
the averages made. are smaller than
been no actual decline in prices
LESS ACTIVITY, LOWER
PRICES FOR SUN-CURED
The receipts OF sun-cured leaf on the
Richmond market las; week amounted
to 100000 pounds. and in the main it
was good leaf. but the market showed
something OF slump and prices went
eaEerness OF buyers that the growers
love. to see were lacking and they bid
As Ii they did not care very much for
the weed. The average on sun-Cured
for the week was about sl7 per 100
Western Carolina White hurley to
warehouse floors last week made an
average of s35 per 100 pounds, which
sYas:auite falling Oft In the average
was a decided falling off in the quality
SsofSthe goods.
4 Dark shipping and stemming tobacco
= ln df Il n
pounds. and there was no complaint OF
the hgures this type o. the weed
brought, the figures being quite up 20
the best OF the season.
BUCKINGHAM BROWN LEAF
BRINGS nIG MONEY
The big seller of brown stemming
Tompkins. broke" twenty-three hogs
h heads. of very fine brGUn EoodSand the
leaf in the lot brought s25 70 .26 per
100; the short leaf $40 TO soa, and the
OUT $3.50 pounds. and ii for ri i, coion mel
Terrell carried home check for s6.-
The total loose-leaf sales on this Rich
mond market for the month OF Febru-
AIRY were s:62a.235 pounds. which
II The of Ssos per S
ending February % were lo7e4,3lo
pounds. BRINGING an average OF s21.l4.
inese nSures as compared with those
Of year ago, show increase in de-
l.yeries and decrease in the average
spEices The sales for February of last
Brought aH veeaEe of saSs pe whi So
,SSIhe-, sales for the five months ending
= with February of last year were $685.
ers realized was $3.50 per 100 pounds.
DanXnle over 10000. 900 Mark.
DANVILLE, VA. March S.-The sales
on this market for the month of Fcbru-
aIy amounted TO 5.7ss.55a pounds.
oo the taia aHsassf 6e Of
! foot up 4o;467,4s6 pounds. Which
average Of ss5.4s per 100 pounds.
The sales this week amounted to
about 1,225.oo0 pounds. and the aver
Z age price attained was about $3.50
The quality OF the offerings for the
past month was decidedly below an
tion of the sales were low grades and
semibrights. much of the. stock sold
being OF such low grade that in ordi-
nary times the farmers would not have
sod IT. This fact is reflected in the
s aeGre sneedb average 6ag for the past week
low grades have been easier. and and
auctuating more or less, There i now
& In this or any other bright section. 1t
Is thought that within three weeks al!
the bright markets will be exhausted.
several months. =
Export shipments lave been very
e heavy for the past two months and
large quantities of tobacco are being
held at the sea5oard awaiting bot
toms.
Plant beds are being prepared FOR
i the new crop and the Indications arc
that the farmers will undertake the
planting OF fully, If not :. larger crop,
\ than in 1915.