LEAF TOBACCO GROWERS SELLING LUST OF CHOP Larger Receipts in All Markets That Are Not Yet Sold Out? Prices Remain Unchanged.

PREPARING IN THE SEASON, prominent Dealers Look for Great Demand for Tobacco Ever Known?Advise Farmers to Plant Heavily.

All of the Virginia leaf tobacco markets were quite in the last week. The weather conditions were favorable for market in the week, and the growers seem to be anxious to convert all of the 1916 crop into cash before the busy time for making the 1917 crop begins. Then, too, they have not had a slight slump in prices that followed the "brisk war talk" and the are exerting themselves to sell out while the selling is good.

The receipts on the Richmond market were about 5,000 pounds, about 5,000 pounds of which were of the first cured, dark shipping stocks, and the balance was of the sun-cured variety. The market generally was unchanged, the first-cured goods going for from $6 to $14 per hundred and the sun-cured sales showing an average of a fraction over $10 per hundred.

All over the tobacco growing sections of the State, the farmers are preparing.  For a bit: crop this year. They have been advised to plant out all they possibly can, for it is the opinion of the dealers that by the time another crop is ready for the markets, the value in Europe will have been set down as "no way or another," and immediately following it there will be an unheard-of demand for tobacco in all parts of the world. 