120 TOBACCO PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



GRANVILLE. Trash, $3 to $10; good lugs, $10 to $16; green tips, $8 to $15; dark mahogany, $10 to $15; 

 bright mahogany, $25 to $50; bright tips, $25 to $50; fourth grade, $30 to $75; third grade, $60 to $75; second 

 grade, $60 to $80; first grade, $90 to $100. 



TALUE OF LANDS COST OF PRODUCTION MARKETING THE TOBACCO CEOP. 



Granville and Eockiugham counties may be taken as fairly typical as to the character of the product, value of 

 lands, cost of production, etc. Want of transportation facilities, nearness or remoteness of markets, and the cost of 

 fertilizers as affected by freights, would alter some of the figures given if applied to other counties. 



GRANVILLE COUNTY. The price of the best lands is about an average of $42 per acre; yield, 600 pounds. 

 Inferior lands are worth $5 to $7 ; yield, 500 pounds of inferior tobacco. The rental value is one-fourth of the crop, 

 or, for best lauds, $25 in money per acre. Wages, by the day, for field hands, 50 cents and board; by the year, 

 $100 to $150 without board, or $80 with board. Estimated cost on the best soils, $10 to $12 50 per hundred pounds. 

 In the northern part of this county a considerable amount of red, coarse shipping tobacco is raised, which greatly 

 reduces the average price for the county. 



Estimate of crop of fine tobacco for one man, careful, skillful, and intelligent: 



Kent, 2 acres $20 00 



Laborer, six months 50 00 



Board of laborer, six months .' 42 00 



Horse and feed 10 00 



Use of wagon and plow 3 50 



Use of barn and packing-house 3 00 



Firing-wood, 9 loads, at $1 9 00 



Fertilizers 15 00 



Hauling to market 2 00 



Total cost for 2 acres 154 50 



Product, 1,200 pounds, at 35 cents 420 00 



Profit... 265 50 



Cost per hundred pounds - 12 87$ 



Profit per hundred pounds 22 12$ 



Inspection and selling cost $1 to $1 50 per 100 pounds. When sold loose, the crop is placed in piles of separate 

 grades upon the floor of the warehouse and sold by auction, and 2J per cent, commission and 25 cents a pile, 

 auctioneer's fee, are charged. The piles in weight range from 8 or 10 pounds to 300 or more. The following 

 accounts of sales show the cost of marketing in Granville, as well as the proportions of grades and range of prices 

 in a good crop: 



Sales of 311 pounds. 



30 pounds, at 46 cents $13 80 



32 pounds, at 60 cents 19 20 



194 pounds, at 38 cents . 73 72 



55 pounds, at 13J cents 7 55 



114 27 

 Charges 4 77 



Net proceeds 109 50 



Sales of 1,127 pounds. 



54 pounds, at 88 cents $47 52 



149 pounds, at 67$ cents 100 57 



97 pounds, at 80 cents 77 60 



228 pounds, at 67$ cents 153 90 



90 pounds, at 60 cents 54 00 



34 pounds, at 51$ cents 17 51 



167 pounds, at 34$ cents 57 61 



308 pounds, at 40 cents 123 20 



631 91 

 Charges 22 31 



Net proceeds 609 60 



The usual average in Granville does not exceed $150 to the hand, but there are frequent instances of profits of 

 $500 or more. From two to two and a half acres are planted to the hand, and the cost of production is diminished 

 by such increase of crop as will employ a full set of tools arid keep the team busy. 



EOCKINGHAM COUNTY. Price of good tobacco lands, $10 to $25 per acre; yield of such lands with manure, 500 

 pounds. Inferior lauds are worth $5 to $7, and yield with manure 500 pounds of inferior tobacco. The rental is 

 one-fourth of the crop. Wages by the day: Men, 40 cents; women, 25 cents, with board. Skillful tobacco hands 

 command irom $15 to $24 per annum more than ordinary farm laborers, and double what they could get in the 

 shipping-tobacco regions. The following is the estimated cost of raising two acres of tobacco in Eockingham county : 



Hire of hand and board, deducting time employed on other crops $75 00 



Horse and feed while employed iu crop 20 00 



Jse of plow, harness, and wagon 3 00 



Fertilizers * 10 00 



Use of bam and fixtures 2 00 



Hauling to market 2 00 



Cost of two acres .. 11200 



Product, 1,200 pounds; cost per 100 pounds, $9 33. 

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