Personalized Christmas Online » isaiasbanu62 http://www.personalizedchristmas.net ... everything about Personalized Chrismas! Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:03:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 A Visit to the Tobacco Market – A Disappearing Market http://www.personalizedchristmas.net/a-visit-to-the-tobacco-market-a-disappearing-market_180236.html http://www.personalizedchristmas.net/a-visit-to-the-tobacco-market-a-disappearing-market_180236.html#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:40:32 +0000 isaiasbanu62 http://www.personalizedchristmas.net/?p=180236 Growing up I would visit the tobacco market with Granddaddy every opportunity I got. Even when it meant paying hours there I was never bored, well perhaps a little bored, but I always enjoyed it. I could still remember the odors and sounds of the market in my mind.The track of the auctioneer walking down the rows of tobacco with the buyers following him is hard to forget. There was row after row of cured tobacco with each number of packages introduced by a different farmer wanting to obtain the most effective price of the afternoon for his sale.Several years back when I was working being an account manager for an industrial maintenance service agency I visited a smoke plant near Macon, Georgia. I had to park my car near the raw material getting docks at the back of the facility. As soon as I moved out of my car I could smell the dried, cured tobacco and an atmosphere of nostalgia washed over me in a flood of memories of the tobacco industry and Granddaddy. As quite a long time ex-smoker who dislikes the smell of cigarettes I really love the smell of cured tobacco.Most decades being the first to the market was very important. Never as a place of satisfaction but since the greatest money was paid for the early plants and by the period of year money was limited and the money was needed seriously to carry on. The first markets to open were the South Georgia markets and typically Granddaddy and couple of the other local small producers might get together and put a lot of their tobacco on a large vehicle and drive from North Carolina to the Georgia markets to enter on the first sales. I never got to get on those trips.There were plenty of local tobacco areas in Eastern Vermont and if they opened Granddaddy would listen intently during lunch break to the market reports on the radio and read them in the magazine trying to find which market was paying the most effective price. I could remember him saying following the statement, “We are going to the market in Greenville tomorrow with a lot. Do you want to come”? My answer was always “Yes”. We would get right up before dawn another day and load the truck with healed, fixed tobacco and down we would move. You’d to have there early because you wished to get yourself a position near the beginning of the auction point, not at the beginning but near it. Granddaddy knew all of the little tricks to greatly help get yourself a better price for his crop.When you appeared and examined in they would give you a lot number for your selling. The customers from the different tobacco companies would spend the first part of the morning running around and taking a look at the different lots and making notes for the market. When the market began the auctioneer could begin going down the rows of tobacco and hesitating, not stopping, at each lot and never missing an of his bidding tune. The buyers would follow behind him revealing their bids with a nod, a hand wave or some other specific way. There have been other folks alongside the auctioneer who would write up the sale as soon it had been mentioned and would leave a couple of copies of the sale paper together with the lot. One was for the business purchasing the lot and the other was for the character to cash out with. Granddaddy would get his copy to the cashier window and they would pay him on the spot.The tobacco areas were often an exciting destination for a go and back in those times it played a significant part in the neighborhood economy and history. Goals might be made are broken by what occurred at the market on any given day. A years work will be tallied by the outcomes of a few days at the market.Tobacco is no longer the wonderful leaf scalp that drove the economy of a few southern states and just as the smells and sounds of the New York tobacco markets are fading in my thoughts, they are also fading in our history.

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