The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-11
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgeron, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
Edgerton,

NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
The condition of the growing tobacco
crop is improving. The cool weather
that has followed the recent showers has
had a tendency to give the plants a
better spread that will eventually make
the fields that showed a disposition to
spindle week ago much larger leaf than
was anticipated. Some encouraging
features of the present crop is the almost
entire absence of worms, and grass
hoppers have done little if any damage
to date. Then the absence of hail storms
generally throughout the tobacco Sec
tion has given the growers less concern
than usual. The writer cannot recall
season when there has been less injury
from hail to the tobacco fields as the
record furnished to date. So the outlook
at present is for an unusually sound
crop. What tobacco that has been
harvested at this writing was at least
never equaled in point of soundness al
most every leaf being a perfect one. The
harvest will become quite general
throughout all sections the coming week.
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Tobacco, if would seem from the COM
parative table of internal revenue re-
ceipts, does it's share toward the support
of the government. For the year end
ding June Both there was paid into the
treasury from the tobacco manufacturers
and dealers little more than a million
dollars per week. The total receipts were
So, 49,, ,207.64, an increase of SIS, ,262;o85
q over the year previous. And yet there
were $50 million less cigarettes made
during the year than the previous year.
The increase in manufactured goods was
in little cigars entirely.
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A group of scientific men attached to
the department of agriculture are in
dustriously studying the question of how
to improve the grade of American to-
bocco, each having his special branch of
the investigation, which has two objects
in view, says the New York Sun. First
and most important to the consumer,
they desire to improve the grade of the
homegrown tobacco so that it will be
possible to furnish smoking material at
reasonable price which shall be equal to
the expensive foreign brands, and, sec
ondly which is of more Importance to
the producer, they desire to ascertain
definitely just what it is, climate, soil, or
process of curing, that produces so much
better tobacco in foreign countries than
that produced in the United States. If
they can discover wherein the subtle
distinction lies and teach the American
producer the secret of tOning and flavor
ing his tobacco they will confer upon the
consumer an inestimable blessing and at
the same time put millions Of dollars in
to the pockets of American farmers which
are now spent in other countries
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Word comes from New England that
Sutter Bros. have definitely decided not
to do any spOtting in Hatfield this sum-
mer. There are two reasons for this de-
cisiOn. The hail has injured the wrap
pers on many of the fields and in the
second place there was little demand for
the spotted wrapper last year. The large
tobacco dealers are beginning to prefer
the plain leaf. The spotting fad has
probably had it's day. None of the far
mers will do any on their own response
bility this year, says the Northampton
Herald. The Homestead is hardly will
ing to believe that Sutter Bros who are
supposed to be behind Rickard & Long,
have dropped any money on spotted to-
bacccO, but we are not surprised that the |
spotting fad has had it's day. B. NJ |
Warner sold his tobacco that he has |
been putting through the artificial sweat |
and the price received has fully repaid |
him for the extra trouble and expense.
The owners of tobacco in the districts
ruined by hail are trying experiments. |
E. I'll. BardWell has reset much of his. |
If frost holds off until October 1st, as it |
has for the past two or three years, he |
will have a crop Others have cut the !
old plants down to the ground and are |
allowing the suckers to grow. 1t is |
claimed that these will develop as good |
a plant as the original stalk. This latter |
scheme is an experiment, for there has
never been a hail storm before that has
completely ruined the plants SO early in
the season. After this year the grower
can tell better what to do.
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A collector has presented the question !
whether an agent, whom a farmer has
secured to sell several crops of tobacco
which he has on hand of his own grow