Russell Scearce of Reidsville and Sam Wright and Hardy Poindexter of Ruffin, three young tobacco growers, have returned from Learnington, Ontario, where they have been curing flue-cured tobacco this season. A killing frost visited that section September 13th and 14th and destroyed all tobacco remaining in the fields.
Raising flue cured tobacco in Canada is a new industry and embraces a strip of territory about 30 miles wide and 60 miles long in the province of Ontario. White Burley tobacco, however, has been grown in that section for several years. A very fair quality of both types of the weed can be produced there.
It was estimated that this year’s crop would turn out about 10 million pounds, but only about 3 million pounds of this had been cut when the frost came. None was cut after the frost as it was utterly destroyed.
The Canadian tobacco growers are said to be greatly discouraged over the heavy losses this season, and it is doubtful whether another crop as large as this year’s will be planted again. This is the earliest killing frost in that section in 26 years. Many farmers had gone in heavily on tobacco and their losses are serious.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Monday, Oct. 1, 1923
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