The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-08-17
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

At the last regular meeting of the Ohio
Leaf Tobacco Packers Association, held
at Dayton on Tuesday, July 81, the fol-
lowing resolutions were voted upon and
adopted:
Resolved, That standard made to-
bacco case, as adopted by this assocla-
ton, shall be made according to the fol
lowing decription or better: The lumber
to be we'll seasoned and to consist of No.
3 white pine, planned on both sides, and
to be a inch in thickness. The corner
posts to be Il inch square. of red elm,
or other hardwood lumber equally as
tough and elastic. The tops, bottoms
and sides of the cases shall consist of not
to exceed four boards each, and the ends
shall not be less than three or more than
four boards each, and to be one-quarter
of an inch apart. The boxes shall oe ex-
actly % inches high and % inches wide
inside and i'm length shall be 81, 30, 50,
40 and 42 inches, according to the size of
the tobacco packed therein, and that
such boxes shall be szept clean and free
from unnecessary dRt or marks untI the
tobscco shall be delivered to the buyer,
and such unnecessary dirt or marks
shall be considered deterioration ia the
vaete of lte bacco boxes.
Resolved, That we will always require
the farmers to deliver their tobacco TO.
our individual members in standard
boxes as adopted by this association;
aud If tthe farmers deliver their tobacco
in any 'ether than standard boxes as de
scribed lin the resolution defining a
standard box, shat such tobacco case
shall be furnished to us aree by the eEarm
ers, 1ana we wills refuse 30 pay for them
or return them. This rs to commence:
with the purchase of the 1900 crop.
Resolved, That the object of THIS reso-
htution taken by our association in regard
ito t66acco boxes has for it's sole tobject
1.-THE bettermemt of the beaf tobacvD inter
festsTn Ohio @and the correction of the
long standing abuse iElposed on us by
farmers and box makers. 1t is f5he OBJ
jedte0f thisiaasociatioE that the members
shall pay for all standard made Sooxes at
the met cash price at which they them
Isselvss can b@y such BOXES at the time of
!pur1 hase tof the tobacco, and is not to
make preft for taRe members of this
yasseciationosr cause,a loss to the raisers
|eof ltgbacccriM iM Ohia. as it is cleErly within
the poWertdg the faTaaers to deliver their,
and receive their pay for them in full.
Resolved, That Tins association is op-1
lposed to spraying tobacco xJith PARIS
gfean' orSang' other goisonobs=su bstance,.
ian6 SUBTRACTION is, Seoked upon with dis
tfavar and ,we warnall farmers that they
will be obliged to guarantee the buyer
that theirItG bacco saes not besn sprayed
witt parissween or aany other poisonous
III 4oo o., /Fl
,saiE tobaccE and rs considered highly
injurious to the consumer.
aa*
E.H. Jenkins, of1taae Conmecticut Ag-
micukunal AExperinaant Statifn, reportsf
the following, experiment: "rEGt get an app
fprO&arnateiiHea of the amounted leaf saE !
facet0n,a tOasaccol p2ant or oman acre off
tobacco, IA Si9gle plant which had beemh
topped andsSucker@E; and was ready fOri
harvest wassarippe2Ef it's leaves eighteen.
Gal number. T1he outline Of eadh leaf was
carefully traced in pencil on a rectangu
lar sheet, OF; paper, ana the figure of eachI
LEsaf 'tials traced, WAS cut OuEw4ith sciss- /
.sors. f}he; area and weight of TShe sheets
used tfOf this purpeSefl fla1 beene carefully
determined beforehand. By weighing
THE leaf 4iguresand the%cutting#Separate-
lN, ut WAC easy TO calculate the area OF
these leaf fguEes, assuming that the pa
per ise0f &lnifornl weight for each unit of
SLlrdaee. The eighteen leaves were thus
calculated ito haze an ,aRea, OflT7.1 sd uare
feet. Reckoning 7 TOO plants to the acre
it MOalId iappear that the leaves from one
acre of Connecticut Havana tobacco, at
harvest tinaa, would cover.4 810a acres"
x
LIN speaking of the decision OF the
court lin the patent Spotting process suit
the T. S. Tobacco JournaI very wlsely
remarks.
The adkairabEe, eom mon ,sease decision |
of Justice Wallace, published in part in |
our issue af last week, in the pate0t |
spotting process suit has driven the last |
nail into the spofting process coffin. lit |
sVas defeat for i0th parties, the paten
sees as we'll as the tobacco growers. For
the tobacco growers, while lighting the
spotting process patent, nevertheless did
spptting themselves, and for doing SO,
whether by "a patented process or not
they were declared guilty of 'feounter-
feitsng the spotted tobacco of commerce.
and&f profiting thereby by deception
and fraud" Judge Wallaee's decision,
therefore, is as severe an arfaignment
against the methods of Richard & Long
as against those of the tobacco growers,
for the object of both was the same.
For once the greed of the grower has
oS,erreaehed itself The public has
gained the only victory, the unsophisti-
Gated public that is being constantly
muieted and defrauded by the favored
classes.
Heneeforth Sumatra cannot be imi-
lated in this country by assisting" ma
5ure, as such process has been judic-
ally declared fraud and deception.