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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06

jobbers and manufacturers have their
entire attention fixed on the new goods,
and are specializing as to what the re-
suit of the inscription indicates. The
verdict of the importers is that such
large purchases being made at the open
ing sale signifies that the quality of the
lfferings was somewhat above expecta-
IONS. Others conclude that the quantity
u ken by Americans was fairly moderate
tn en- all the facts are taken into con-
wh ration.-Leaf.
side
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS.,, April 6, 1900

IDGhhIONs w TO-, apIlI ICUU. p
Buyers are still quietly picking away
at the remnants of the '99 crop remain
ing in country hands which altogether
amounts to quite little trading. It is
quite generally conceded however that
the crop is much more closely picked up
than for many years at this stage of the
season. The amount of tobacco packed
by growers promises to be very small.
Prices show no change. Sales coming to
notice are:
Ole Harvey la at 7&2c.
Tolif Quee, 10a at 6&2c.
Lewis Lee, Ia at 615&2c.
M. B. Bergum, 10a at 7c.
ga at 6&2c
Ole X. Odland, 5a at 7&2c asst.
Ell. S. Philips, 5a at 515&2c.
W. FL. Schmeling, IA at 5115&2c.
VIM. Wright, 5a at 5242c
Thos. Brown, 3a at 5&2c.
Ben Berrigo, 5a at 615&2c.
Aaron Wallen, Ia at Sale.
A. little business is continually being
done in old stock. @. L. Culton's sales
for the week being 200cs or more L. B.
Carle & Son has purchased 120cs 97 and
'98 of J. J. Hyland and Goes of Holton,
Luten and Parish of Stoughton.
A few packers are about winding up
the seasons warehouse handling but
there is yet quite little work in sight
in this market.
The shipments out of storage reach 20
cars, 925 cases, for the week from this
station to all points. Three cars of bun
die leaf were received for handling at
this market. Since last report about
$500 cases of cigar leaf were exported
from New York
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
Connecticut Valley.

There is bu4little to say, SO far as sales
are rSkscerne39oy he tobacco ggcpers,
yet occasional sales take place, nlostly Of
those lots that were bargained for last
August and Septem Der. Some of these
lots did not cure as light colors as the
buyers desired, and SO they determined
to reduce the price to suit their notions,
or else they would reject it entirely
What a reputation for business probity
these buyers have made! Where law
suits have been made after paying the
agreed price, to collect damages from
the growers, they allege all kind of dam
age, and including dishonesty, on the
part of the grower. Such characteristics
make pretty slim portraits for growers to
regard them, and very few of our grow
ers will care to see them on their farms,
or to listen to beautiful yarns, dressed
up in their national tongues. Our advice
is to let them seek new fields. Some Of
these fellows have been prowling around
the valley for years, and their reputation
isn't first class.
The work of preparation has been
going on for some time. Fertilizers are
in demand, wages are pretty high, and
the cost of the crop must be increased.
So we are fearful that the growers will
not have as prosperous times as last
season promised, still the general outlook
is favorable. .-CultiVator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
New York.
New York.
New YORK March %, 1900.

The only word of encouragement heard
in the market this week is that the
month is drawing to close. Dealers in
Seed leaf have already put March down
as month of poor business, and are now
looking hopefully to April for favorable
change in conditions. 1t is barely pos
sible that they may be disappointed in
this expectation, but there is every reason
to expect couple of months of good
business before July. And when buying
commences again, it is safe to predict
that the activity will be extremely pro-
nounced. The majority of the cigar fac
tories are hard at work, and every week
of depression in leaf circlers means big
cut in factory stocks. Force -sweated
Connecticut tobacco continues to find a
ready sale. Although it reaches the mar
ket in moderate quantities, the drain is
going on steadily, and good slice of the
fine New England wrapper stock has al
ready passed out of first hands.
Sales of the week, both as to the num-
Der of transactions and size of lots, are
very moderate, and none has come to
hand that is worth reporting.
Havana tone of the Havana mar
ket is quiet. Business is going on stead
lily, but in small way, and dealers are
resting easily. Activity in the cigar line
compels manufacturers to keep renewing
their stocks of leaf, but all purchases are |
of conservative proportions. Reports
that the firm who are credited with hav-
ing the largest holding now available in |
this market had disposed of their stock, |
were current again this week; but on |
making personal inquiry of them, it was
learned that the tobacco referred to is |
yet for sale, and the firm in question re-
ports business as extremely quiet.
Sumatra-The occasion of the first in /
scription at Amsterdam, which occurred |
yesterday, has served to act as damper
on the local Sumatra trade. Importers,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

At least two different machines, for
asserting, or rather sizing bundle tobacco,
inventions of residents of this state, have
been given trials in the warehouses dur
ing the packing season. While neither
of the machines have as yet proven per-
feet in all requirements, they have at
least paved the way for improvements
that will bring out machine that seems
destined to become great help in put
ting up packing of tobacco as it is now
handled in the warehouses of this state.
1t can hardly be expected that any ma
chine can be devised that will intelli-
gently sort tobacco as to color or quality
grades, but where the great bulk OF a
crop is handled by principally sizing, as at
present, there are very good reasons for
expecting that machinery can be made
to do good share of this work. And
when such machinery is perfected the
labor question at the packing points will
be in a great measure solved and what
now requires several months to accom-
plish can be performed in few weeks
at least. With such facilities for rapid
handling of bundle leaf, packers need
not then be handicapped by limited
sorting room capacity but could increase
materially their holdings.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
JANEsvILLE, WIS, March 30, 1900.

The buying of the '99 crop has dwin-
died down to very small business, with
only few purchases being made. In
this vicinity whole townships have been
almost cleared of the weed nicotiana.
Buyers often ride five miles in the to-
bacco sections without finding a crop
unsold. It is probable that not over 20C
acres are left unsold in this county,
condition rare inded, the first of April.
Deliveries by the farmers have ceased
almost entirely, owing to the fact that
most of the tobacco has been delivered.
In old goods an occasional sale of i'm
portance is made. L. B. Carle & Son
sold 2O0cs '98. Many small orders are
filled, this constituting the larger part of
the business in cured leaf.
Several warehouses are nearing the
end of the asserting season and others
hiring all the help they can get, Farm
and Home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
Lancaster.
New ERA, March 81, 1900.

LANCASTER New ERA. March 27, 1900.
By very general consent the past week
was one of unusual dullness. There
were inquiries for old goods which
could not be met, and yet the fact is
that perhaps never before we're SO many
old goods stored in the warehouses of
this city as at this very hour. But they
do not belong to the men in whose ware
houses they are stored. They are mostly
owned by outsiders and merely stored
here. Apart from the 1899 crop, and
some goods from other States, held here
by local owners, the market is not what
manufacturers want just now, and these
explain very fully why our sales are not
larger. The sales brought to our notice
were loses sold by Kramer & Goldberg;
100cs sold and 55cs bought by NJ M. Fry
and Hoes bought by A. S. Hershey &
Co, in all 370cs. For the corresponding
week of last year the sales were 907cs.
All things considered, our home to-
bacco growers seem to have done we'll.
There have been comparatively few re-
jections and little docking.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
! SToueHroN, W. March 80, 1000.

spoueETos, W. March 80 1900.
OK. Roe has sold to Rosenwald Bros,
of New York, his '97, '98 and '99 packing
consisting of 1900 cases. The deal is a
private one, but it is said the purchase
price will amount to something over $45,-
600. Mr.. Roe has shipped cars of his
"a and '95 packing to eastern parties
during the week.
O. Ell. Hemsing has closed his ware
house here after putting up 1000 cases.
He is still running his gang of sorters at
Mt. HoIeb.
Ell. T. Hanson bought acres of Dennis
Clancy the past week at 519c.-Courier.
Sales of Seed Leaf Tobacco reported
for The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter by
j. S. Cans Son, Tobacco Broker, No. 1913
Water Street New York, for the week
ending, April 2, 1900:
Toes 99 n. E. Hav. forced sweat at 20
to SOC.
1O0cs '98 N. E. seedleaf at Is to SOC.
175cs '98 Zimmers at 915 to 1415c.
2OOcs '98 Wis. Hav at II to 13c.
10Ocs '97 Pen. seed at 1870
125cs '98 Pen. seedleaf at II to 1115c.
1O0cs '97 Sundries to 16c.
Total 875cs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
BaldwinSvilIe, N. Y.

There has been a considerable number
of deliveries here this week in both case
and bundle goods, and parties not hav-
ing sold are interviewinging buyers with
a view of making leaf interchange, be-
fore April 1st At Fulton there has been
considerable doing in deliveries, prices
from 10 to 13c. The price is not gov
erning one, however, as quality and
method of handling still have an inhu-
ence as of old. Many lots of old have
been picked up, in fact the warehouses
hold about all there is left. One grower
recently sold fine new and old crops for
13c, This was an exceptional lot, how
ever.~-Gazette,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
New YORK, March 81, 1900.

Dizziness reigns supreme in our leaf
market. 1t has reigned for some time
past, and it seems to have come to stay
infectious, too, because the Chicago and
Philadelphia markets commence to COM
plain of stagnation, too. The present
state of affairs seems, therefore, to offer
a spleddid opportunity to the trade for
taking it's vacation now. For it might
be deprived of it during the summer
months
The only stir was caused by the news
from Amsterdam about the first inscrip-
ton. And the news was but stale
repetition of the same story for the past
ten years. A poor crop, exceedingly high
American buyers. AS over 20 per cent
of the Sumatra offered was bought by
the Americans, the most natural and
logical inference can be only that the
Sumatra offered could not have been so
poor as the various cablegrams tried to
make it. Nor was it necessary to use
that trick in order to stimulate demand
for the old stock on hand inasmuch as
the old stock has been nearly cleared off,
and more Sumatra will be consumed
CnlS year IN Cne UnlCed OCaCeS tnan ia
many years past, provided the good times
and the ACTIVITY of the cigar industry hold
out, and the U. S. Tobacco Journal is
willing to wager it's reputation on that
prediction. What the new Sumatra is
like will not be definitely known till the
first purchases arrive and are subjected
to an examination. Aside from this in
scription incident, nothing happened in
the market that deserves special mention
or is worth while recording. journal,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06
MIAMIsBUsG, OHIO, March %, 1900.

MIAMIsBURG, OHIO, March %, 1900.
There is a little activity hunting for
good Dutch at low figures, with an oc-
casional sale of Spanish at current rates.
Sowing seed for the 1900 crop will soon
be general The spring is later than
usual.
A mistake was made in last report in
rating: D. Beachler's samples should
have been Is per cent in place of 80 per
cent.
Quotations: For No. upland Spanish
9 to 10c; leafy to Sc; musty filters to
&c; Dutch to 6; seedleaf, nominal, 5 to
cents.
Receipts by rail 10 carloads; ship
ments % carloads.-News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06

The efforts of Representative Esch to
arouse interest in tobacco culture in this
and Monroe county seems to be ap-
preciated. The newspapers are all in
teresting themselves in spreading the in
formation and there is likely to be good
results. There would appear to be no
good reason why continuous lands in the
southern towns of La Crosse and Mon
roe counties should not produce just as
good tobacco as is grown over the line in
Vernon, where the tobacco industry has
become of great Importance. 1t has all
the appearance of an opportunity for
our La Crosse county farmers to shake
themselves up and learn something new
and valuable, just as they did few
years back when they went into dairying
and stock raising, and if Representative
Esch arouses them to interest he will
do an excellent service.-La Crosse
Chronical.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06

The latest invention of tobacco sizing
machines has been brought out by Mr.
Frank A. Bemis, the original inventor of
the Bemis Transplanter and was given
an exhibition trial last week at the ware
house of L. B. Carle & Son at GAINESVILLE.
The machine consists of a series of NOV
able web belts passing over table that
seize and deliver the leaves of certain
length in a receptacle where they evenly
laid convenient for tying. The machine
is simple contrivance and is made in
duplicate SO that it can be fed by two
men each of which loosely spread the
tobacco cross ways of the moving belts.
AS the leaves are carried forward they
are caught by the tips and thence con-
Quoted to their proper receptacle. Two
men can easily put from 1000 to 1900
pounds of tobacco through the machine
a day. The work of sizing is quite salts
factory and while the first machine may
need some improvements that will sug-
gest themselves hereafter, the inventor
has evidently struck upon the right idea
and something practical, it seem to us, is
bound to result
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06

In order to make the machine handl-
ing of bundle tobacco entirely practical
the grower will be called upon to render
assistance which can be done at the
stripping stage. If the farmer would
remove and keep separate the filters,
tips and ragged leaves when the tobacco
is removed from the stalks, then the
handling of the balance of the crop by
machinery would be a more simple
proposition in the manner as
it is now put up in this state.
This could be arranged by contracts in
the future when the crop is purchased.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06

Ten good cows for sale. One mile
from MELVILLE bridge on river road to
GAINESVILLE. l.. *. PECK.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-04-06

The Commissioner recently had oc-
casion to rule that the extent of the
liability Of a leaf dealer to special tax
should be computed on the quantity
annually sold during the proceeding
fiscal year to qualified tobacco dealers
and manufacturers, and also the quantity
sold to persons who engage in business
in the United Slater of buying leaf to-
bacco exclusively for export; but that as
to tobacco exported by the qualified leaf
dealer himself, it would not be consid-
cred in estimating the rate of special
tax that he should pay. 1t was advised,
further, that as this leaf dealer bought
tobacco both for export and for resale in
the United States, and received the same
at one warehouse and intermingled it,
subsequently selling some at home and
some abroad, he should charge himself
with all the tobacco received, and on
the credit side of the book SO he should
enter the names of persons to whom to-
bacco was sold and delivered in the
United States; and if he exported to-
bacco, the name of the person to whom
sold and his foreign address.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
BRATTLEBORO FRIDAY, DECEMBER H. 1900.
National Rnral DeIlvsry.

A large part of the annual report Of
Postmaster General Smith is devoted to
rural free delivery. He says the system is
here to stay; it cannot be abandoned
where it has been established, and 1t can
not be maintained without being extended.
On the 1st of July, 1900, the appropria-
tion of 81, $50, COO became available, and
on the; 10Th Of last month there had been
established 2614 routes, serving a popula
tlon Of !, 1,s01,5 There are now on file
21OO applications for new routes, and by
the close of the year the department ex-
poets to have in operation 1900 routes,
serving 3,500,00O residents of rural dis
tricts.
Mr.. Smiths summing up, after entering
exhaustively into the different phases Of
the subject, is that an additional outlay of
S12,000,000 would substantially take the
mail every day TO every door in the land
The postmaster general believes that II the
abuses of second class postage are rectified
the government would receive sufficient ad-
dltional revenue to pay all the expenses of
national rural delivery, and he adds regard
ing the abuse Of the second class mail
privilege:
at is a public contribution without any
public advantage for the sole benefit of .
few private interests. II It is q
question between favoring a very limited
number of publishers and favoring 21 ,0O0,-
600 people who live on the farms of the
United States, there ought to be no hesita-
ton in serving the many rather than the
few"
The total revenues of the postal depart
ment for the year ending June 80, 1900,
were $102, 1854, $40, and the expenditures
were $107, 740,2 ,267, leaving a deficit of
SO, 1886, ,6Ss, against a deficit of S., ,6l0, 776
for the year previous, and a little over
$4,000, 900 for 1893. Owing to the abuses
of second class matter the outgo continues
to exceed the income, but the receipts are
gradually outstIipping the expenditures,
and the department estimates that the de-
ficlency for the next year will amount to
only little over $4,600,000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

Statistics show that in the whole Do
mlnion of Canada there have been only
271 divorces granted in 32 years; in Prince
Edward Island, with a population of 100,-
COO, there has not been a divorce in 80
years.
The smaller nations of Europe may no
longer fight without the consent of the
larger ones. When trouble arose between
Holland and Portugal, England promptly
stepped in, and by throwing her influence
on the side of Portugal made Holland sub,
init, without any consideration of the
merits of the case. Germany, indeed,
might take Hollands part, and thus give
that nation a show, but that would pre-
cipitate general European war, and, be-
sides, Germany has reasons of her own
for keeping out of the AFFAIR." fact which
England knew we'll before she acted
philadelphia Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14
MINOR NOTES.

'Pm glad you're on the agricultural
committee" said Senator Proctor to Sena-
tor Dolliver, 1--WE farmers must stick to.
gether or we're lost"
Senator Dillingham; has appointed w.
A. Martin, formerly of Montpelier, as his
private secretary. Mr.. Martin has been
clerk Of the House elections committee,
and is thoroughly acquainted in official
Washington.
The report of the minority of tbe ways
and means committee calls for reduction
of SO, ,000, 900 in the revenues aud proposes
modified income tax to bring the ques-
ton before the supreme court for final
adjudication.
According to a special despatch from
Washington, Great Britain and Germany
have re0pened the Chinese question by oh.
structive tactics, that may delay or prevent
the negotiations for peaceful settlement.
The Anglo German objection is hinged Oh
thetpunishment question, and will cause
embarrassment to the United States, Rus
sia, France and japan, which had acceded
to Secretary Hays modification policy.
The Burlington Free Press of Tues
day had the following Washington des-
patch: There can be no Disgusting the
good auspices under which Senator
Dillingham; has begun his service
here. He has made a good impression
among his colleagues and is starting mod
estly but with dignity as becomes a new
senator who wants to grow into usefulness
to his constituents. He spends large
portion of the time when the Senate is in
session, in his seat and will rapidly learn
the Senate's method of conducting busi-
ness. The senator has apartments at the
Cochran hotel at the corner of Fourteenth
and K streets. Just across the way is the
Hamilton hotel, which has long been the
home of many distinguished Maine men, in
cluding Senator and Mrs. Frye, the late Rep
resentative Dingley, and his successor, Rep
resentative Little6eld Only three blocks
away is the home of his colleague, Senator
Proctor
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

Though the Anglo Boer war is said TO
be over, the killed in October on the British
side numbered 1877; there were II who
died of wounds, 387 died of disease, 81
were missing, and 2S75 we're sent home as
invalids. From the beginning of the war
to the end of October out Of force of
234,C00, 553 officers and 1915 men had
been killed or died of disease, S27 officers
and men were missing or prisoners and
1422 officers and 33,077 men had been sent
home as invalids, making total temporary
reduction of the active force of 4S,026
The deaths and discharges account for a
permanent loss of IL 769. The Beers had
altogether about 10000 men for service,
consisting of 45, 900 Transvaalers and Free
Staters, 10000 Beers from Cape Colony
and Natal and 5000 mercenaries, but at no
time had they as many as 1000 in the
field. Their losses are estimated at about
10000, of whom some 16,500 are now
prisoners. The burghers now bothering
the British probably do not number over
10000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-14

The army bill, which passed the House
Thursday, is the result of many compro-
mises, and its passage through the Senate
and the inevitable conference committee
means still more complications. The bill
as it now stands provides for an army OF
10000 to be maintained "under the pres
ent exigencies' at the discretion of the
President, and in other times of emergency
at 100000 men, and for colonial contin-
gent consisting of II, 900 Fillpinos. There
are TO be Is regiments of cavalry and SO of
infantry. The artillery corps is to be com
manded by an inspector with the rank of
a colonel, and is to be increased at the rate
of 20 per cent per year until filed to its
strength of 1920 men. A chaplain is
provided for each regiment, instead of as
previously for each army post. A nurse
corps and veterinary surgeons corps are
authorized. The canteen is completely
wiped out by the passage of the Littleheld
amendment.