The past week has been very dry, and the farmers evidently busy picking cotton, so the receipts of tobacco have been lighter, amounting to little more than 1,500,000 pounds, at an average of 15.82 per hundred, bringing the total sales to date to 15,750,000 pounds at an average of 15.85. The color and character of the breaks have deteriorated since the primings and first curings have been sold, and the breaks consist largely of common, nondescript lugs and leaf and large quantities of brown dark tips, and though the price per pound is not so high as formerly, taking the inferior quality of the tobacco into consideration, they are higher than they have been any time this season or for twenty years past. Still, the yield is so light that the remuneration to the planter is not so great as the high prices would seem to indicate.

There is more damaged tobacco showing up in the sales than for many years past, which is extremely unfortunate, since it depreciates the value of the tobacco materially and reduces the average considerably. Owing to the bad seasons, the farmers seem not to have been able to take care of their tobacco as well as in former years.

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