Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-12-22
TOBACCO CROP IS
STATES LARGEST
593, 745,OOO Pounds Esti-
mated AS of December
l for This Year

North Cardinals tobacco crop for
1887 is the largest in the history Oh
the State, according to report OF
the Cooperative Crop Reporting ser
vice of the State-Federal Departments
of Agriculture, received here today
The December 1 estimate of the 1897
production was given as 593,745,OOJ
pounds, exceeding the previous 1871
record production by 7,145OOO pounds,
and is 80 percent greater than the
November 1 estimate Of this year >
..'ield.
Cash income from tobacco, based on
the seasons average price to Deem
Der 1, is estimated at $154, 300, 900, or
$50, $685. 900 more than was received for
the 1896 crop.
Up to December /, North Carolina
tobacco warehouses had sold 529,657,-
900 pounds of producers tobacco. This
was declared to he over 80 percent OF
tho estimated crop, and with the por-
ton sold outside the State, and with
three additional months of the selling
season in some parts of the State, as
of December 1, the estimates OF the
crop was declared to be a conservative
one Last year producers sales to De-
cember 1 were only 1854 percent OF
the final estimate of the crop pro-
duced.
For the first time this year, dealers
in scrap, OF united tobacco have been
licensed and required to report the
tonnage of tobacco bought and a.
mounts paid. BY December 1, the de-
partment had received reports total
ing 7.232,821 pounds purchased for
$120, 119, an average of $166 per hun
dred pounds.
For the flue-cured belt as a whole.
the report said, the production indi-
Gated at 850,23O,OOO pounds is about
two percent above the November i
estimate and Is percent above the 1885
crop of 682,850,OOO pounds. This is the
second largest crop on record for the
belt, the largest being 865, III 900
pounds in 1890. The acreage harvest
ed is estimated to be 962,5OO acres
compared with 864, 800 cares in 1886.
The average yield per acre of 1888
pounds is the second largest on rec
ord, the largest being 928 pounds in
1885.
The cash income of North Carolina
and livestock was 81 percent more
than in 1886, according to the final
report of the Crop Reporting Service.
The increase ranked North Carolina
sixth among the states in the percent
age of increase in income from agr,-
cultural products
The states cash income from field
crops alone, sold during the calendar
year amounted to 1892, $4,000, as com
pared with $193 900 in 1896. Live
stock and livestock products sold
brought $26,OOO,O00, o. compared with
S25, 100000 in 1886; Sand government
payments to growers under the crop
control programs totaled 12,282,000 in
1887, as compared with $4,302,O00 in
1886. The total of all receipts in 1887
was S271, 900, or $47,78O,O00 more
than the 1923, $4,000 last year.
National farm income showed an in
crease this year ofq only 7.3 percent
over that of 1896, showing that North
Carolina farmers occupied an envlable
comparative position in the farm pic
tufe for the past crop year, the re
port stated.
All of the States crops included IN
the report showed increased produc
tons in 1887, except a few minor COM
modities, and the unusually heavy TO-
bacco crop, with the good prices PAID.
was, as usual, the largest contributor
to the farmers income. Estimates TO:
most of the crops showed increases
over those of a month ago.