Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-11
pool. SALES NOT
GIVEN IN REPORT
Of All Tobacco Sold Out of
Warehouses In March-What
Monthly Figures Show
(By Associated Press)

Frankfort, Ky, April 11-Salc
OF 15,47S,555 pounds of tobacco
during the month of March was
reported to Commissioner of Ag-
riculture W. c. Hanna, according
to the April report just issued. OF
that amount 9,475,59O pounds of
the 1921 crop were reported sold
and 5,OO2,965 pounds of the 1920
or previous years crop.
The April report does not con-
tain any report from the Burley
Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association which now controls
III warehouses and all sales for
which are made through the CEN
tral office at Lexington. Altho
officials of the association have
stated that half of the 1921 crop
pledged to the cooperative has
been sold, reports of only about
Z5,O00,OOO pounds have been made
to the commissioner. + was ex-
planned that the reports are not
made until the tobacco is remOv-
ed from the warehouses and that
although the cooperative has
sold its tobacco, the buyers have
not yet removed it.
The pooling of the hurley crop
is reflected in the report of sales
of that variety of tobacco. The
sales Of 1920 and previous years
crops were 4,261 $50 pounds while
that of the 1921 crop were 2,584,-
005 pounds. The 1920 crop was
not pooled and is being handled
at independent warehouses. while
the reports available for March
on the 1921 crop are only from
the independents. Sales Of bur,
ley tobacco covered in the report
follows: For growers, 1920 crop,
l93,S5O pounds at an average Of
$l2.02 per hundred; 1921 crop. H.
O65,465 pounds at $17.81; for deal
ers, 1920 crop, 2,455, AS pounds at,
5l3.H per hundred; 1921 crop,
365, 100 pounds at an average of
Sl0.52; rcsaIes 1920 crop, 1,6l2,-
55 pounds for an average Of
3l1.H and 1921 crop, 053,440
pounds at an average OF $l2.42 q
hundred.
One sucker tobacco OF the 1920
or previous years crop sold total
ed l82,o05 pounds at an average
of $o.l0 a hundred, and for 1921,
1OJ.290 pounds at an average Of
SS.38 a hundred. Of the 1920 crop, f.
1855 pounds were sold for grow
ers at an average of Sol, and fCr
the 1921 crop $3.50 pounds at an
average of 81; sales for dealers
OF the 1920 crop totalled 1925 !
pounds at an average of $3.50 : /
and of the 1921 crop 33,-.
7l0 pounds at all average of $3.50.
Resales OF the l9ZO crop tOtalied
1905 pounds at an average OF
500 and of the 1920 crop 16,O50
pounds at an average of $9.8l a!
|
Unfred dark tobacco sales Of
the 1920 crop totailed Al ,315
pounds at an average of $12.31 a
all being for dealers, and
of the 1921 crop total sales were
696,620 pounds for an average of
SH92 a hundred of which 649, ,545
pounds were for growers at an
average Of $1220 a hundred ana
47,075 pounds for dealers at an
average Of $7.95 hundred.
Sales Of fired dark tobacco Of
he 1920 fcrop reported totallcd
517,395 pounds for an average Of
Sl2.01, all of which was for,
growers. OF the 1921 crop a to-
al of 1886, ,3O5 pounds averagingi
'16.49 a hundred, of which 1897
'95 pounds for an average of
'l7.O1 hundred was for grow
RS; o39,685 pounds for an aver
-ge of $3.50 was for dealers and
'5S,o25 pounds for ali average Of
'lO.3S a hundred were resales.
There were no reported sa eS Of
ireen River tobacco of the 1920
.rop, but of the 1921 crop total