The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-03-01

to you "sorted" by the grower as it
is done now and your expert grader
VIII nave to guess, as you say the
| buyers do, whether it is A, B, or C.
grade and what subdivision of that
grade the pile under consideration be-
longs in. This expert grader will
make just as many mistakes as the
buyer does today and the error will
cost the farmer money. His B. pile
VIII often go in c. grade making q
loss when sold, or c. grade will fire.
ucntly go in B. reducing quality of
the real B. with which it has been
mixed resulting in lower price for
b. grade. The statement that, Gov
ernmcnt experts have been at work
for many months on standardizing
grades, OF tobacco and assure us that
it can be DONE" This is really anus
ing to any tobacco man-no such
thing is possible. There are hund-
reds of types Of tobacco-all useful
IN some blend or mixture known to cx-
pert manufacturers, but there is no
way, to standardize grades of leaf.
Each buyer has in his mind his own
standard and no mark you can put on
a grade will change his idea of stan
dard.
Objection d: "The rcdrying may
not suit the big purchasers of tobacco
who have special processes of their
own"
Answer: Having control by owner
snip, lease or contract Of adequate re-
drying facilities it will be as easy for
the association to redry to suit other
purchasers as it is under the present
system for the big independent buyers
and exporters to do this"
4
porters fail to dry exactly to the stan
GARD required and lose money by this
failure. Only RECENTLY we heard one
of the largest dealers, while showing
a lot of samples say: w sold this
, tobacco for export in 1919 and while
1T was up to grade it was found to
contain too much moisture, so | still
have it on hand and must take big
ioss.' Do you think your employees
| could DO better than an expert owner
does with his tobacco?
This fourth objection is hardly
worth discussing for it is not likely
| that the association, if it should get
into operation, would redry any large
quantity of tobacco. The reader will
note that Dr. Joyner does not say re-
| drying facilities have been secured
lie merely assumes that they may be
| Just now we don't know. TO rcdry
90 per cent of the crop would require
about so per cent of the capacity of
all existing plants, as all are used
about up to capacity during crop move
mcnt. The owners need these plants
for there will still be much tobacco
sold at auction in the Carolinas and
Virginia, just as there is now being
sold in Kentucky where the pool is
said to be a success. If owners were
entirely willing to sell or lease plants
it would be impossible for them to do
so. But if re-drying were possible
storage room is not available in this
country. About DO per cent of the
bright crop is moved to scaboard as
rapidly as possible after being redricd
and there is not sufficient storage
room in the entire state to hold the
greater part of crop in addition to
the enormous quantity now in stor-
| age.
No, Doctor, we make the prediction
that You will not rcdry much tobacco
but will receive it from the farmer
"sorted" as it is now-in all kinds of
order--one lot carrying average
moisture-another too wet, CARRYING
ll8 or 20 per cent ecess moisture while