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GRADES AND PRICES. 
At 10 cents a pound, which is about the average for the five years 
ending in 1910, the flue-cured type of tobacco has brought to growers 
the sum of about $20,000,000 annually. Growers claim, however, 
that counting all factors in connection with the expense of producing 
flue-cured tobacco, it costs about 10 cents a pound to raise it. 
The price schedule put forth by the Interstate Tobacco Growers’ 
Protective Association of Virginia and North Carolina, given in Table 
XVI, throws some light on the various market grades into which the 
flue-cured type of tobacco is divided and the approximate relative 
prices of each. It should be borne in mind, however, that they are 
based upon a price level to the farmer fully 24 cents a pound above 
that which has been current in recent years. ; 
TABLE Keyl — Scale of prices adopted by the Interstate Tobacco Growers’ Protective 
Association of Virginia and North Carolina for the sale of their pooled holdings of flue- 
cured tobacco in October, 1904. 
; | 
| Price per |, Price per || Price per 
Grades. 100 | Grades. 100 | Grades. 100 
| pounds. |) pounds. | pounds. 
| 
Lemon wrappers: | Mahogany fillers: |, Cutters (cigarette): | 
TITAS ee peers ee $65. 00 PGT CE EeSa aie $22. 50 | Fab a\ eens mee fat = $35. 00 
COO0ls sa secneasee 50. 00 |) Go0dse sates 18. 00 | Goodey ati aeaeees 30. 00 
Medinm 222-2 --- 35. 00 Mie dinmmne eee ae 15. 00 | Mieditinmnmee ssa seee 22. 50 
Commons s 2 -- | 25. 00 Commonsess-2 2a 10. 00 Commons es 18. 00 
Orange wrappers: Dark red fillers: | Bright smokers: | 
By Cea eats ts 2 60. 00 TosbaYe\o8 oe ate eae 16. 00 IR Cee a eee Fo SOD) 
Goods os 50. 00 Goode eee ttee- 14. 00 || Goodieasan eee | 15. 00 
Medium eases ser 35. 00 Mediunivaesct sss. 12. 50 Mediums 22225. 12. 50 
Commioniessssse- 20. 00 Commons eeee ee 10. 00 |) Commion®==e4ess== 10. 00 
Bright mahogany Dark fillers: | Heavy smokers: 
wrappers: IME Se cece sees 16. 00 || NG Ser al eee eee 16. 00 
IBINe Rept. cerns | 55. 00 Good es seen ee 12. 50 Goods. a= 14. 00 
COOGle sag cssehoaee 40. 00 Mediums s 222s 10. 00 Miediume ea. ee 12. 00 
MeqnaT: eee. 30. 00 Commonit=-= =. oa: 8.00 Common=ttee see" | 10. 00 
Common=-e-2-—-=- 18.00 || Tips: Lug fillers: | 
Dark mahogany wrap- Bien Gee sates 12. 50 BIN Gee eye ca 16. 00 
pers: Darker see as. 9. 00 Goodaaaaas eee 14. 00 
INTO Sesaokespaoade 40. 00 | 6. 00 Mediuimpeceseece 12. 50 
Goode ea nase ees 25. 00 | Greens te sss ecese to || Commonite-22--—- 10. 00 
Mediums sce sce 22. 50 | 8.00 || Trash: 
Common2e2- 55. 18.00 || Export leaf (bright): Low grades and 5. 00 
Bright fillers: Tra) eae ects, ae eeye 35. 00 Crashes tena to 
PHO a Acie s.0 20. 00 | Goodlet Siaeniss 30. 00 || 9. 00 
Goode sess camels 17.00 | IMedrumessees eee 22. 50 || 
Mediums een. ss. 15. 00 Commontess ee ee 18.00 || 
Common=se eee 10. 00 | | 
FLUE-CURED TOBACCO AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900. 
At the Paris Exposition of 1900 our flue-cured bright leaf was 
considered by the jury of awards in comparison particularly with 
Turkish leaf, which is generally regarded as a distinctly cigarette 
type of tobacco. Mr. M. L. Floyd, the only member of this jury 
from the United States, reported that the jury was inclined to favor 
the Turkish leaf from the standpoint of quality. The bright, flue- 
cured leaf, however, is yet of very satisfactory quality even as a 
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