The Newtown bee., 1898-03-11

rua' Y /, IL vas decided t. bull tina hird
sw satjng rom, and this is now ready
for use and will be loaded in fe " DAYS.
1t is intended that the rooms shall alter
nate in such manner az to care for the
tobacco packed on the first q Dor until the
entire buying shall have been preps1 d
for ma ket.
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS.
1t will be seen from the decision to
start the second room before the first lot
of cases had been finished and examined,
that the utmost confidence is felt in the
result Of the experiment. case of to-
bacco wilt average 800 p unds, and the
value of even 203 cases is something not
to be trifsd with, even by the largest
manufacturer or des Ter. Cured Havana
seed leaf is now quoted by those who
have it for sale at from 20 to 80 cents a
pound.
1t is interesting to know that, while
this artificial sweat is new thing, and Ia
properly called an experiment, both Mr.
Sutter and his local agent nave no doubt
of the result. "We know what we will
get,'' said Mr. Kilbourne, after showing
the sweat rooms.
Taking for granted, as those most in
terested do, that the artificial sweat is to
be successful, the problem remains wheth-
er the artificially spotted tobacco will
come out as well as the untreated leaf,
Some small dealer in leaf tobacco have
bought spotted leaf for experiment, and
at least one Of them reports that the spot
ting has made the leaf brittle, and that it
does not work up as We for wrappers "a
does the natural leaf. Should this prove
true of any considerable portion Of the
Suffer buyings it wi take from the prof-
its of what should otherwise have been a
most successful venture. This will be
especially the case with the tobacco
grown in this State and forwarded to the
East Hartfc I'd warehouse and for reasons
easily given. The verdict of the small
buyer quoted is, however, in fat contra
diction of the preliminary experiments of
last year. A little of the leaf was spot
ted in 1895 in New England, and it Is as
serted that it was fully as plable as the
natural leaf.
THE sPOTTING PROCESS.
1t need hardly be explained now that
artificial spottiDg is done a few days be-
fore tobacco is cut, in the field, and that
the spotting is made by spra yipg a solu-
ton of I've on the leaf. 1t is the belief of
the Suffers that leaf very much spotted
and with large spots, approaches the
standard of trade demand most nearly.
and the army of men who did the spot
ting were Instructed to use plenty of the
solution. The tobacco warehoused in
East Hartford, and now in the sweat
room, ia very speckled. If the spots
made the fiji ished product brittle there
would be trouble ahead. It must, how
ever be taken into consideration that
spotted tobacco is worth a very good
price, If Of fair quality. The rage for
Sumatra leaf wrappers has been some
thing strong enough to carry up the price
of any tobacco which can be used for
wrappers and will give to the cigar the
same general appearance as the Sumatra
wrapper. If only small percentage of
the artificlally spotted leaf should prove
poor, there would still be large margin
of profit for those who have handled it.
Another element in the calculation ia
the saving of large interest charge if
the artificial sweat equals the natural in
effect. BY the steam process the crop of
1897 may be in the hands of the sellers in
another NJ nth. All of it may be mar
keted by May. If naturally sweated it
would not come into market until late in
the fall. On the supposition that the SUIT
tiers bought their supply az far below fig.
ures for small buyipgs, they must have
invested in the crop of 1897 now In ware
houses in New England, not far from
100000. 1t is reported that their hold
ings are at least 25 per cent mora than
that. Taking the lower figure, the inter-
est saving, the gain in handling and
warehouseing, will be very considerable
if the experiment is successful.-rNew
York Times.
THE HORSE SALE OF LAST SATURDAY
The largest crowd that has been in
New Milford in some months was pres-
emit on Saturday to attend the horse sale
of Walter Thomas. The sale was quite
succes sful. The list of purchasers was
as follows:
Horace Allen. New Milford. 2.
Stuart Halpin, Q
Mr. Williams, L.
j. L. Buck,
Daniel Wheaton, i.
-. Gustavus AL.