The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-12-21
TOBACCO SITUATION
LOOKS PROMISING
Editor Manning Times:
My Dear Sir:

Aio"i 'ihic W Ilne am asking space
in your valuable paper to publish the
following items. Frr the past three
months l have been located at Tar
boro, N. c., in the tobacco business.
Iarboro is situated thirty miles South
east of Wilson and eighteen miles
from Rocky Mount in the heart of the
bright tobacco section of Eastern
North Carolina. 1 will state for the
benefit of those that are interested in
the culture and selling of similar
types Of bright tobacco that prices
have been fine all the season and that
farmers have been highly pleased
with results. Of course yood paw
ing prices applies to only of those
that were fortunate enough to grow
yood tobacco, from $25OOO to $3.50 90
per acre was realized py thousands
of farmers. My market Sid 100000
pounds that averaged $500. Wilson,
N; o., with greater per cent of good
tobacco averaged up to date better
than S25.00 for 45,O00,0O0 pounds.
The banks in Wilson have worked
seven hours per day paying out money
TO tobacco sellers and have paid out
on an average of $4,000 per minute.
saw the statistics few days ago.
have visited the Wilson and Rocky
''' maj heto every week, once or
twice per week. Sales there, as we'll
as with my market, also Greenville,
were highly satisfactory to the grow
ers. That section of North Carolina
did not have the rains during the
growing and curing season that we
had here in South Carolina. l am
also frank to say that the same green,
sorry types Of tobacco did not sell
any better than the same kind sold in
South Carolina. 1t does not nav the
growers OF tobacco to produce sorry
tobacco any more and especially since
there isn't any foreign demand for
such types of tobacco, as | understood
it the world is glutted at present on
common tobacco. Dealers are still
loaded from 1918 and 1919 on this
KIND of stuff. You all remember here
how that kind sold about 1918. Of
course some are gradually unloading
but like myself this year when l sold
my 1920 stock at big loss, | know
an independent concern that sold over
| half million pounds of common to-
bacco that cost them $500 per hund-
red at loss of $1,000 per hundred,
IN other words they realized only five
cents per pound. This concern like
many others, in fact every posted to-
bacco firm or individual dealer could
see that the future did not hold out
any encouragement to hold or horde
any common stock, hence they arc
gradually unloading at a great loss.
So much for the above preliminary:
Let's get dowrs to the milk in the CO.
canut; let's be optomistic and look
forward to 1922 with new resolution
and determination to make this a ban
ner % year FOR Eastern South Carolina.
FOR years | have from time to time,
told the growers Of bright tobacco
What l know and what some said I
ana not know. | have told you in ad-
vance what l thought prices would be
based on what little knowledge / had
of the tobacco industry. + viii leave
what | have tried to put before the
vrowcrs for their approval or dis
approval | have told you about com
mon tobacco and why it doesn't paw
TO grow it. will now tell you if YOU
want TO make money in 1922 to grow
an the tobacco you can make and
handle good, and you will reap an
abundant harvest for your toll There
Is shortage in good tobacco and I
! expect to see it sell well. feel con
tident OF what am writing and | also
leel that the growers Of tobacro in
TINS County know that would not
give this out for publication if I did
not nave anything to base my iudg
ment on. l know this is going to be
hard ycar-and one that will trv
mems souls. We are all in debt from
+, PAD crops, high taxes, high cost of
living, etc. But under Gods help we
can come out victorious. Let's trv
and make something to live on nj
nome and then after we have done
this cultivate what tobacco and cot
ton we can. The farmer, as we'll as
other business people, has got to cut
expenses and learn the art of econ
omy and hard living for a while un-
III we can overcome this deflated con-
! dltlon that this world war has plump
ed us in: My heart aches and goes
out to those that are suffering as a
result OF this, not only in our own
land, but in war-strickcn Europe and
ASA where people are dying daily by
the thousands from hunger. Just
thlnk of poor mothers with babes in
their emaciated arms and CRYING
children all around them with onlV
foots, herbs, moss, bark, etc, to sub
slst on. So after all we are a blessed
people-you will pardon this express
sion but it strengthens our poor con
, dltion and should give us food for
thought. 1t should make us more
grateful to God, the giver of all good
gifts. s''''
We will need an early money crop
this year coming 1922-Let's make a
good crop of everything. Let's grow
good tobacco and try and get the mar
ket TO open by July 18th. I will