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ABERDEEN THE GROWING TOBACCO MARKET THE OT SECTION TWO Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina VOL. 10. No. 42 ABERDEEN, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPT. 19, 1930. Price Five Cents Tobacco Situation Appears Somewhat Hopeful Here Their Worth Demonstrated on Is Thought That Superior Qual ity of Crop in This Section Will Improve Prices AN EDITORIAL I A NEW TOBACCO THE SITUATION REVIEWED . COOPERATIVE Next week the tobacco market opens • Another tobacco cooperative Ku A -+V, + u i association is planned and steps m Aberdeen, with th€ two warehouses ' h^ve been taken in state and in shape to handle the business. The county to organize a SUCCesSOr general condition of the market to that one which failed before it could work out its aims. That the old one failed does not con demn the old proposition, nor af ford any evidence that the plan is wrong. But it does give some information as to things that shotild not be done and of ideas that cannot be carried out, and of some things that would be of no value if accomplished. The old association lacked some things that the new one can en joy, principally the intelligent aid of the new farm board estab lished last summer by Congress. Not that Congress will buy to bacco to raise pricfes, or any posted tobacco man who this week | of that impossible dream of remarked to The Pilot that the qual-1 farm relief that is dreamed in iiy of tobacco in this part of the j some Quarters. But the Farm state is about the best he has ever i board vrill do what is much bet- known in years of acquaintance with | ter, and that is to help the far- Ihe crop, and that it is a better crop j mers, tobacco or otherwise, to or the average than that of other j plan and cooperate in their deal- sections. He says the weather has | ings with each other, with the : nabled a better growth of leaf, a | busineBS conditions they must smaller proportion of low grade stuff, | face, with factory, distribution, which is what kills the market aver- j with their OWn buying as well as age, and that he thinks the local mar-1 selling, and with many things ket will see better money paid than has been the case either south or east. To what extent this man’s optimism can be accepted as prophetic is to be seen, but those who have been about the tobacco fields tributary to Aber deen have observed the fine quality of the crop, and the weather has been elsewhere is far from satisfactory to the growers of the crop, and the out look in Aberdeen is regarded with more or less of doubt. In Georgia the }»i'ices were not pleasing to the pro- liiuers and the border markets iu North Carolina were no more con vincing. The prices in the east have j r.ot done much to inspire hope, and the possibility is that tobacco will rule thioug'hout the season among thfc low figures of recent years* If the < utlook has a hopeful slant it may b- based on the opinion of a w^ell- the farm faces. In this day of organization of similar lines of industry the far mer is the one man who under takes to carry on as^an individ ualist, and he can’t do it. The things he makes m.ust be made and sold under the principles of such that harvests could proceed un- mass production and distribu- der the most favorable conditions, i tion, and those principles are as Farmers are confident that the * wide as the heaven, and as re grades of their tobacco will run high-1 lentless as death and tomaorrow. this^ country. Now our export tobacco goes abroad in competition with the tobacco of the old world. Our tobac co sold for home use goes to the cigaret factories in competition with the tobacco of Kentucky and Tennes see, as well as the other smaller pro- du^rs. These figures are official. They are taken from a government publication, which is the authority on the sub ject. The Pilot prints this informa tion because at this time as the mar kets are about to open, so much has been said concerning the cause of low prices that it is worth while to know more about the true conditions, and thus be able to intelligently work for better prices rather than waste time quarreling with imaginary ene mies or conditions that lead to no where but disappointment. CANADIAN TOBACCO CROP DAMAGED BY DROUGHT The 1930 flue-cured tobacco crop of Canada has been damaged consid erably by drought and the harvest will be about 25 per cent less than normal, according to estimates of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, submitted to the Tobacco Division of the Department of Commerce, by As sistant Trade Commissioner Avery F. Peterson. An increased area was planted to tobacco this year but the damage from drought will probably more than offset the increases. Repre sentatives of the Canadian Depart ment of Agriculture stated that most glowers would have yields varying between 500 and 600 pounds per acre, whereas the normal yield is between S6o and 900 pounds per acre. Capably operated lands should run around 600 pounds per acre, but many will be lucky to obtain 500 pounds. It has been reported that some individual growers will not harvest the crop be cause of the extent of the damage. Bring your tobacco to Aberdeen. Market opens Tuesday Sept. 23. “WORLD’S LONGEST” MOTOR SERVICE STARTED IN AFRICA What is described as the world’s longest motor taxi route has recently ^been inaugurated in Africa, states a report to the Autoriotive Division, De partment of Commerce, from Assist-^ ar.t Trade Commissioner DtiV>’^ayne G. Clark, Johannesburj;*, South Africa. Phis service, which is known as Trans- African Motor Safaris, has been start- ed to carry tourists from the Juba terminus-of the Nile steamers to Cape Town, covering m^ny of the most in teresting parts of African route. The entire trip is scheduled to take ap proximately ei<’;t weeks, including steps at the princinal cities. er than ordinary this year, and are hoping that good tobacco will bring better prices than are offered at some places. It is also hazarded as a guess that with the general average of leaf The farmer cannot ignore them, and he cannot succeed without adopting them. Everything the farmer buys is a product of or ganization and cooperation, and in this section of a character to bring I he must follow that policy or be higher prices its stmiulus will per- | lost in the shuffle. He can not mit buyers to bid a little higher on j stand alone and do anything. Or the lower grades, as it is argued that with a liberal amount of high quality leaf the low grade stuff can be mix ed with it in a way that will take up some of the cheaper stuff and enable ganized he has the force of com bined numbers, and that counts. It is not the manufacturer that causes the farmer’s hard luck, nor the government, nor any of it to make a better showing. These i the other windmills that he is guesses at the situation are given for j urged to fight. It is his OWn un- v’hat thev may be worth. i consoliclated frazzled front that The tobacco buying companies will he presents to everything with Ic represented by capable men in which he has to deal, and he can Aberdeen and the warehouses will be handled by the same operators. Banks Saunders in the one and Edwards, Lewis and Williams in the other, and no more win in his individual ism than ununited individuals can win against an army. Every things he buys is made by or- they are well enough known to Sand- | ganized effort. He alone depends bills growers to satisfy the needs in that direction. With the quality of the tobacco high, and the curing and grading believed to be carefully done, .eood prices could be expected were it not for two or three things that are outside of the control of anybody in 4;he territory. Men who give informa tion about the tobacco markets do not always like to be quoted, so some of the things told The Pilot have to be taken for what on their face they represent, rather than from the au thority of the man who tells them. One statement concerning the buying of tobacco which is verified by gov ernment figures, is that American buyers by no means take the bulk of the product grown in this section. This may have a great deal to do with prices. It is a popular fal lacy that the bright leaf tobacco of North Carolina goes to make ciga rettes in the factories of the “Big Three,” meaning Reynolds, Ameri can and Liggett & Myers. But that is not the case. A large share of the ci garettes made of the bright leaf of North Carolina is exported, and a large share of the cigarettes made by the <‘Big Xhree” contains the tobac co of Kentucky and Tennessee. North Carolina bright leaf no longer is used entirely for North Carolina cigarettes. And that is one thing that has hap pened to the bright leaf market. It is well to note some of these figures that are taken from the Government Year Book of Agriculture for this year. North Carolina made last year over 508,000,000 pounds of tobacco. This was its biggest yield. This with the on his individual initiative and^ executive action. His present plan is a»s certain of failure as that the sun goes down at night. And cooperative organization is his only hope. flue-cured types of Virginia and South Carolina gave about 763,000,000 pounds of bright tobatco for last year, the biggest yield ever known. Eight years ago the yield was half that much, and eight years ago tobac co sold for an average in the bright belt for 29 cents. With twice as much tobacco last year it sold for 18 cents. That is worth considering. Also, when bright tobacco soared up to 25 cents a pound Kentucky and Tennesse to bacco was selling around 17 cents. Then cigarettes began to draw more on Kentucky tobacco and last year North Carolina tobacco came from its higher figure down to 18 cents and Kentucky tobacco from its lower fig ure up to 18 cents. These figures indicate that the western tobacco is supplanting bright North Carolina tobacco in cigarette manufacturing, and that our prices are going down to meet western prices, and also that a large propor tion of the bright tobacco is taken by export buyers, and bought in com petition with the tobacco of the old world, which is of an inferior qual ity, but which is offered at such prices as to be a serious competitor. And the old world makes a lot of tobacco. Three years a’go the crop of the United States was 1,212,000,000 pounds. The rest of the world made a little more than twice as much as * T % % There’s always some favored one with a charm that’s all her own. ... And everywhere in the modern scene you’ll see happy smokers break ing out fresh, fragrant packs of Camels •.. a natural choice too! For the mildness of Camels is a charm that’s all its own ... a natural mildness that’s a quality of choicest tobaccos. Don’t confuse this fresh, fragrant mildness with the flatness or insipidness of “over-treated” tobacco. There’s a delightful natural fragrance to Camels, too, a “bouquet” as distinctive as the fragrance of oriental flowers. , Here’s to the delightful things of life! Have a Camel! Camels, “EASY TO LISTEN TO”—CAMEL PLEASURE HOUR Wednesday evenings on N. B. C. network, WJZ and associated stations. Consult your local radio ^e tablfr a _ 1930, R. J. Reynoldi Tobacco Co., WinttoD'Salem, N. C>
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