Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-04-06
LEAPNED WISDOM ny EXPERIENCE

Growers of Tobacco Find Most Profit In
Disposing OF Their Goods in a Reason.
able Tfme-GeneraI Tobacco Notes
Bad roads of the past wsek has chr
tailed the delivery OF tobacco 20 some
extent, but still libere, quantities have
been brought III and lodged with the
local dealers and shipped to outside
sorting points. One noticeable, feature.
however, is the delivery Of large
amount of extra fine goods from the
Immediate vicinity CT Ferryville, 25 miles
distant. W. ID. Dyson, representing
Fred Eckhardt, bought twenty crops in
that neighborhood in one day. He saws
they are among the choicest goods
raised anywhere last season.
Not few foreign buyers are still in
this section pickiog up The few crops
yet unbought Bot this must soon
end, for ninety per cent of last years
growing has passed to other hands.
In general summary of the years
tobacco business the Edgerton Reporter
says: Few tobacco crops of the magni
tude of the '97 Wisconsin has been lifted
In so short space of time as it has
taken to transfer the present big crop
from growers into the hands of the deal
ers. The movement too, has taken
place contrary to the predictions of
nearly every tobacco man familiar with
the size and quality of the crop and the
general conditions of the leaf market
What reason then is there for this ex-
traordinary and unexpected movement?
The most reasonable solution of the
question is the fact that the market
opened at low prices and packers went
into the field on the theory that the
goods could be bought as cheap then as
they could ever reasonably expect to
obtain them at. The advantage Of hav
ing first selections is always an object
to be considered by packers. Having
got the market started on right basis
the movement followed easily enough.
gathering strength and momentum as it
proceeded. How different conditions
would have been had the growers de-
manded a cent or two more for their
tobacco than they received? The Gre o
would have remained practically unsold
TO the coming summer. The growers
would have been compelled to have sort
ed their tobacco and then after the cost
of their labor and shrinkage had been
added, it would have been a future
question whether they could realize
any more for their goods that by selling
as they have in the bundle. Scarcely |
any OF the thousands OF dollars that
have been spent at the packing points
10 handing the crop would have been
and the tobacco growers of |
the state would have been waiting the |
pleasure of the buyers in paying ont tie
two millions they have already pocketed
For the caop. These are some of the
things that could not have happened
had the growers refused to part with
IhAir tobacco at moderate prices.
The fact that so much of the present
crop moved OF so readily ri low figures,
is pretty sure indication that the grow
ers Of this state have about reached the
conclusion that they will not take any
future chances on sorting and holding
crop when an offer OF five cents or better
is made them in the bundle. The ex-
periences of so many growers in the 1913
and "a crop is still fresh in their minds
The holding of crop two or three years
For raise in price has not proven such a
money making venture as some were led
to believe before these years. Wiscon-
sin tobacco growers are coming to believe
thoroughly in the old adage that "a
bird in hand is worth two in the bush"
When crop is sold and their money |
counted they know just what they can
figure on to certainty. A good many
have got through looking for large
profits in tobacco raising-it is the sure
thing they are banking on now--snd
the quickest way to realiz4 on the crop
at satisfactory profit is what they are
for these years.