The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
The necessity for proper weather con-
ditions to ensure satisfactory curing OF
tobacco in the sheds has been fairly dem
onstrated the present season. A good
portion Of September was cold and dry
and nearly all the late tobacco shielded
during the early portion of the month
remain almost stationary during that
period. One could scarcely see that it
made any progress in curing while such
weather continued. Had not October
opened up warmer with frequent moist
spells to case up the leaf it is extremely
doubtful if much of such leaf would
ever make merchantable tobacco We
have had now nearly three weeks of suit
able weather for fast curing and the
result is easily told in late sheds and the
danger will soon be past for the making
of fat stems. It is hardly to be presumed
however, that the late tobacco will come
out as uniform in color as the early har-
vested, such is seldom the case. What
has been brought to notice most promi-
nently is the fact that the weather con
ditions during the curing process are as
important factor in curing good tobac-
co as they are for the growing season.
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of4 4ho or To &c oro in
First the earliest buying ever witnessed
in the state was done this season while
the crop was yet standing in the field.
Now the date for early receiving is brok-
en- by the firm of Sutter Bros, who had
car load of the cured '99 crop delivered
to them during the past week. The very
last of November or even December is
considered early delivering and most
growers prefer to wait for one or two
heavy freezes before removing their to-
bacco' from the sheds for stripping.
With the facilities which some dealers
have for forcing the sweat it is quite
probable that 99 leaf can, be offered
manufacturers completely cured soon
after the Holidays, when another record
would be broken. #
- H. Xxx
The following opinion of the Louisville
Weed would scarcely get the endorse
ment OF the us Tobacco Journal but
we admitit ia evidence just the same:
In the past few years the domestic
cigar wrapper. has forged to the front
with such rapid strides, it is doubtless
true that this season less of the Sumatra
product will be used than ever before.
In matter of color and beauty the do
mestic article may not equal the Su-
are some people, and we might truthfully
say, great many people, who prefer the
domestic wrapper to the Sumatra.
Doubtless this change of taste on the
part of the American smoker has had
much to do with the unprecedented de-
mand this year for the domestic wrapper.
The markets for this class of goods was
never known to be more animated. This
is but natural thing, as we think it is
about time the craze for things foreign
was dying Outln Sucn dOmeSClc country
as this. If our domestic tobaccos are as
good as the imported article, it is no more
than right that we should put aside an
old custom and buy them. If our war
did nothing else, it certainly stimulated
trade in domestic tobaccos, and for this
reason, the trade, and particular the
raisers of domestic tobaccos, should be
thankful the Spaniards got their backs
up. For it has taught us something we
might have gone on in ignorance for an
other century or two. It is certainly
gratifying to know that few factories at
this day use Sumatra wrappers exclu-
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