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TOBACCO TOPICS "A World of News from the Tobacco World" By R. H. WYATT Growera of flue cured tobacco are "Going to Town" in more ways than one this season. Prices are holding up remarkably well and huge deliveries are reported on all floors—Millions of dollars are being paid daily to the pro ducers in North Carolina alone. In a somewhat cocky manner, . our old friend Charlie Stafford, supervisor of sales at Fairmont, N. C- has this to say, "Fairmont's objective of a million pounds of tobacco sold a day for forty days has passed its set mark. Twenty four selling days have resulted in the disposal of more than 25 mil lion pounds. The record to date: yesterday's sale of 1,096,000 gave * a season total of 25,669,022 sold for $6,286,651.93, an average of $24.49 and that includes every pound of tobacco sold on oar market, good, bad and inferior prices are firm with extra good leaf going at a pleasing figure." The report made by Mr. Staf ford is representative of the North Carolina situation —There is money for the grower in to- VRSRSSS CtIAHIN© OUTFIT Ml I (MM HH Hum I Mmm SAM# C4IMMI + W—f t Harris Electric Go. «fLICHT . —at Great Savings FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! SPECIAL REDUCTIONS AyA ON BRAND NEW ' I • I. E. S. Table Lamps I. E. S. Floor Lamps and Pin-lt-Up Lamps Here it an opportunity to save money and yet have these scientific, modern and nec- j essary LAMPS. Take advantage of these A reductions to have BETTER LIGHT in your u home nowt jfl r-EXTRA SPECIAL 1 * Just a few demonstrators and slightly shop-worn I. E. S. Table and Floor, and Pin-lt-Up Lamps—at DRASTIC REDUCTIONS i ——— POWER COMPANY bacco at $24.49 per hundred good money. The grower will be able to pay his debts and have a little left for the so called "luxuries" of life. Prom Wilson, N. C., comes the report for the first two selling days of the new season a total of 2,513,010 pounds being sold there at an average of $23.65 as com pared to the same days of the 1937 season when 1,114,818 pounds sold for $21.68; Green ville, N. C., reports sales for the season amounting to 5,538,976 pounds at an average of $22.27 compared to an average of $20.31 paid for 3,447,990 during the same week of last season; on the Lumberton, N. C., market sales have reached 16,180.318 pounds which has brought the farmers $3,878,858.20 or an average price of $23.91 as compared to sales of 16.997,740 pounds for $4,011,- 436.70 or an average of $23.60 for the same period of last year; sales at Rocky Mount, N. C., have climbed well past the 4,000,000- pound mark at an average of $22.72 compared to an average of $22.46 realized for the corre sponding time of last season . . . These are but a few of the mar kets selected at random, but it gives the farmers of the Burley and Dark Fired belts of Virginia,. Tennessee and Kentucky a fairly accurate picture of the situation in the world's greatest tobacco producing area—lt is entirely possible that the increased av erage prices will be reflected in the Burley belt when the mar kets open early in December. The Department of Agriculture in its latest crop report has this to say of tobacco: "If the good yields per acre now expected are finally secured, there will be an above the average production. It was predicted that the produc tion of flue cured tobacco would be 783,600,000 pounds compared to the huge production of 854,- 882,000 pounds grown in 1937." Production of fire cured to- THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA These Are Entitled to Free Movie Tickets If the three persons pictured above will call at The Tribune office they will be riven two free tickets each to the Lyric theatre. Six free tickets are given away each week by The Tribune, through the cooperation of Louis Mitchell,.manager of the Lyric. Keep an eye out for The Tribune photographer. Maybe you'll be next. bacco was estmiated at 108,127,- 00 pounds for this year compared to the yield of 117,380,000 grown in 1937; the report estimated that a total of 428,325,000 pounds of air cured (light) tobacco would be produced this year as com pared to 427,931,000 grown in 1937. In the burley belt new ware houses are being erected to care for the bumper crop which has apparently been produced despite controlled production. The ca pacity of the Columbia, Ttenn., warehouse has been doubled— The Bluegrass Warehouse at Mt. Pleasant, recently destroyed by fire, is to be rebuilt before the beginning of the selling season in December and with a material ly increased floor space . . . Lex ington. Ky., is erecting new ware- houses; Oreensburg, Ky., is build ing a new warehouse which will have 40,000 square feet of floor space. Farmers would do well this curing season to watch fires in their barns more closely than ever. Students of the situation declare the tobacco in the Black Patch, so seriously damaged by wildfire is particularly suscepti ble to fire, being tinder dry . . . Reidsville, N. C., reports that to bacco fields have been practical ly cleared of the 1938 crop . . . At Georgetown, Ohio, one of the largest Burley crops ever grown is being cut and housed . . . James A. Winslow, known by many as "Father of Georgia To bacco Farming," N died last week in a Rochester, Minn., hospital. He was Agrlcuutural Agent for the Central of Georgia railroad and employed to demonstrate the growing of bright leaf tobacco to farmers of Southern Alabama . . . The Canadian tobacco crop for 1937 was the largest ever pro duced in that country and the quality considered very good. Production from 69.000 acres was recorded at 71,457,00 pounds com pared to the 46,116,650 pounds harvested from 55,000 acres in 1936—The acreage increase was almost entirely confined to the Flue-Cured type. The low yield ing crop of flue-cured tobacco in 1936, the shortage of stocks on hand and steadily increasing de mand for this type of tobacco were the main reasons for the in creased acreage in 1937 . . . Des pite unfavorable economic con ditions in India during the first quarter of 1938 the cigarette business continued to flourish. Sales have climed to about 800,- 000.000 per month . . . *Total ar rivals of tobacco (manufactured and unmanufactured) in India during the first quarter of 1938 amounted to 1,830,735 pounds registering an advance of more than 100 per cent, in volume and 32 per cent, in value over the corresponding period of 1937 — Imports of tobacco into the Re public of Panama during the first quarter showed a material de crease over the same period of last year . . . The Department of Commerce has Just released fig ures giving comparative data on the exportation of American to bacco for the first seven months of 1938 compared to the same period of 1936 and 1937. Exports of bright-flue-cured tobacco un til August 1 of this year amount ed to 136,821,886 pounds which produced $44,535,731 against ex portation of 105,829.360 pounds worth $29,555,906 during the same months of 1937. The ex portation of burley during the first seven months of this year amounted to 7,332,656 pounds which brought $1,601,949 as against an importation of 7,145,- 539 pounds in 1937 which brought 1,568,483. A material slump was noted in the exportation of the dark fired tobacco produced in Kentucky and Tennessee, export ations for the first seven months of this year amounting to but $4,424,585 compared to exporta tions of 38,411,227 pounds worth $4,960,932 in the same months of last year. - But a significant increase, while not so great as in the ex portation of bright flue cured to bacco was in the importation of American made, cigarettes—Dur ing the first seven months of 1937 foreign countries bought 3,718,- 908,000 American made cigarettes paying $7,147,'731 for them com pared to purchases of 3,312,610,- 000 in the same months of 1937 and a cash return of $6,348,380, revealing the growing demand for the American cigarettes despite increased consumption of the un- manufactured bright tobacco in many of the foreign nations. Many tobacco products have not been listed here in the for eign exportations, out the grand total for the first seven month? of this year returned $63,821.0ff to America as compared to $48,- 326,159.00 for the same months of last year—at the rate of exporta tion, if maintained during the re mainder of the year, foreign mar kets will have consumed enough American tobacco products, if payments were equally divided, to SEE THE SENSATIONAL NEW 1939 PHILCOS Here are never-ending thrills for yon, your family and your friends . . . with this fasci nal*n£ new Philco invention—the greatest radio convenience since radio itself 1 No more tiresome jumping-up-and-down to See how a flick of your change stations. No need to be anywhere near finger changes stations . . . the radio! 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