The daily times., 1921-08-06
THE AVERAGE PR
Estimate of Amount of Tobacco
South Carolina Will Sell
Sixty Million Pounds. Aver
age for the Week Thirteen
Dollars and Half Per Hun
dred Pounds.
Especial to the Times.)
(By r. w. McFarlandl

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Dillon, S. c., Aug. Gust as Wilson
is recognized as the standard in
Eastern North Carolina, just so Null
Inns, S. c., is recognized as the stand
bacco for that portion of South Car
olina this side of the Pee Dee River,
which includes the North Carolina
towns in the South Carolina Belt. All
and united when sold and they make
from four to six ''pullings," first the
ground primings and then on up
the stalk until the top is reached
from which they get what we call in
Wilson the tips These facts, 1 ex-
pect, are generally known to most
of the farmers in Eastern North Car
olina In Mullins On Monday where 1
attended the Sales, the average at
one of the largest warehouses there
was $3.50. The good news soon flew
like wild fire and the result was
that so much tobacco came in the
the sales blocked" and the factories
and re-drying plants being unable to
take care" of so much tobacco the
prices went off. 1 wired you on Tues
day the sales continued to block
and prices went still lower reaching
an average of $11.35. Sales then COM
menced to tighten up and prices ral-
lied some. 1 wired you on Thursday
the average for the week up to that
time and while tobacco was no lower
Friday than at the time of wiring,
yet the average for the week runs
between $13 and $3.50 on account,
as will be readily understood by any
one familiar with figures, of the $15.-
60 high average on Monday.
1t is estimated that the South Caro-
lima Crop this season will be around
sixty million pounds only. The first
pulling or ground leaves indicat-
ed a great deal better crop of to-
bacco than it is "panning out" to be.
Heavy rains the past three or four
weeks has caused the. crop to be
of rather thin character, but the
strangest part of it is that the little
that is marketed of real good body is
not selling as well, in proportion, as
the other grades.
To sum up, the whole things keeps
a fellow guessing. Some days the
big company buyers seem to have all
the pep and -tginger" that can be
injected in a fellows system. That
was the case on Monday. Every fell
low wanted to IBID" if somebody
else was bidding" The next day
they lost their ambition" Gas the
old darkey said) and when a fellow
bid half way 'good and strong" he
had "done bought him" a. pile OF
tobacco. This spirit has existed al
most the whole week. The low me-
dunn grades which have not had
friend in years seems to be coming
into their own, a little as they seem
to be getting somewhat indemand.
Il do not mean 81 and IL stuff.
They are selling any ways high, but
they are not walked over" as they
were last season. What 1 would call
'treal good tobacco" is not maintain
ing it's proper ratio at the average
given for the week.
The average I give you are not
tthear say and "guess work" but
arrived at by taking the "digest' OF
total sales, on some one warehouse
and working" it out. Many of my
friends-here own machines and as
our sales in Dillon generally wind
up daily at dinner, we spend the al
ternoons driving to Mullins, Marion,
Nichols, Pages Mill, Latta, Roland
|and other tobacco towns. Yester-
day (Friday) the prices seemed to
be on parity in all of those men
toned. I attribute this to<the pres