The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-04
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgeton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
Edgerton

opinion that the Commissioners OIL LII
ternal Revenue will rescind the obnoxious
ruling regarding special warehouse taxes.
A committee from the Leaf Board, con-
slsting of President Young and Mr..
Joseph F. Cullman, chairman, and MIR.
w. G. Wilson. one of the members OF the
Committee of the Tobacco
Leaf Board of Trade of the United
States. had a hearing before Acting
Commissioner of Internal Revenue VIII
liams, at which emphatic protests were
filed against the assessment or speclal
tax as leaf dealers upon each warehouse,
REGARDLESS of whether sales and del1V-
cries were actually made therefrom.
The discussion finally revolved itself
around the single proposition as to what
constitutes constructive delivery, the
committee holding it related to the tran
saction at the home office, with the pas
sage of the bill of sale. The acting
Commissioner seemed disposed to ac-
cept this view, and it is probable that
the recent order will be so modified as to
exempt from tax, warehouses from Wnlcn
neither sales nor consignments are made,
and which are used exclusively for re-
ceipts. storage and shipments of tobacco
sold from the home office of the owners.
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We do not wish growers in any part of
the country to be unduly excited says
the Homestead. They must not expect
to get fancy price for a poor quality
We do not especially favor these early
sales in the field, because of the liability
to dissatisfaction if not litigation there
from But the situation certainly war
rants taking the best possible care OF the
growing crop. We may also safely ex-
pect that good crops will command good
prices and possibly fancy prices in some
cases. The exact course of prices cannot
be foretold, and the man who takes the
speculators risk in refusing fair price
should be philosophical if the future
shows that he has made loss instead OF
a profit. The less the average grower
has to do with the purely speculative
side of tobacco selling, the better.
By far the largest tobacco farm in the
Dominion of Canada and probably of
United States as we'll, is that of the Hi
ram Walker Sons of Walkerville, op-
posite Detroit, Mich. The town Of Wal
kerville is now one of the most prosper
Gus in the county of Essex. Hiram
Walker. the founder and builder of the
town and it's industries, died last winter
at the age of 81 years. A well-developed
system of utilization has been Established
for the by-products of the extensive dis
tillery also operated by the Walkers to
the cattle barns and the tobacco fields.
From 1900 to 5000 head of cattle, 3-year-
old steers and bulls weighing 1000 lbs.
are annually bought in October at 10
ronto and over the province and ted on
the distillery slop. The Canadian gov
ernment discOurages cigar making, Tor
by existing revenue laws it is out OF
pocket 30c per pound on every pound OF
Canadian raised tobacco that goes into
a cigar Only about 100000 cigars were
made in the Dominion from Canada leaf
last year. What are made OF imported
material are of the same quality as those
made in the states. To encourage the
cigar leaf industry Supt. Barnard last
wear circulated petitions for an import
duty, and they were so generously signed,
parliament imposed uniform import tax
of 1Oc per ID. The crop of the year be
fore, 81, brought 8 to 15c per pound,
which with the new import tax OF lOc
aroused great interest, with the result
that everybody planted tobacco in 80,
about 100000 lbs being raised IN
Essex and Kent counties last year.
Everybody planted, even in front door
wards, and accommodations for curing
we're an after consideration. Results,
crops began selling at &c, dropped to DC,
and now not over | to &c can be obtained
and tobacco slow Of sale at that 1t IS
clear case of OverprOductiOn. This year
not over one-third of last years acreage
is being set. At the Walker farm close
study is made of the markets, the needs
of manufacturers, stocks on hand, etc.
Marketing is made as much OF science
and study as is the growing. Some
years some cigar leaf is raised, in others
hurley leaf for filler purposes and IN
others Pryor leaf as plug wrapper. To
cure the leaf Il barns, each of 7 acres
capacity, 42x96 feet, are set in rows
through the main field, scattered along
distance of a mile. Transplanting from
the 81 acre of beds began May 30, and the
cutter will be put to work in August.
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REPRESENTATIVES of the American To
bacco company have purchased the plant
and lease of August Beck & Co. for $780,
OOO Only a few weeks ago the Ameri-
can Tobacco company purchased the
plant of Cradle & Strotz. The American
company, it is said, holds an option on
the plant of Spaulding & Merritt, the
largest of the three firms engaged in the
manufacture of smoking tobacco in
Chicago. If the American company
secures this plant it is their intention to
enlarge it and operate all the Chicago
factories as one. The statement pub
lished in Chicago morning paper that
the Adams Tobacco company and the b.
Leidersdorf company of Milwaukee had
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