The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-07-27
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
Edgerton,


Though the progressive culture of to-
acco in France is slow, says the Tobacco
Trade Review, of London, Eng land, 1t is
not the less sure. Cultivation is, how
ever, handicapped by the State monopoly;
it NAV we'll be said that it's fabrication is
forbidden, save by the government.
Practically speaking, the Minister OF FL
mace regulates and defines every year
the certain total area on which tobacco
is to be grown in each department. The
project is entrusted with the distribution
of the respective lots throughout such
communes. Once the permission is
granted the grower is bound to fulfil
certain formalities, such as to devote no
less than half rood to tobacco to es
tablish his identity that he is either
landlord or farmer, and to provide the
best possible means in order to cultivate
first-class tobacco, and, lastly, to afford
proof as to his solvabllity. Having
agreed to these terms, the grower has
yet to accept another condition-the
most important of all that Of submit
ting himself to the constant control of
the administration during the raising of
the crop, and never to refuse admlttance
to the authorities whenever they choose
to come to inspect and report upon the
state Or culture of the plant. This au-
tocratic surveillance is considered as be-
ing too strict and requiring reform;
greater liberty is advocated in the inter
est of agriculture. The government by
acting so strictly is doing itself more
harm than good, while seriously injuring
the tobacco trade of the country by re-
tarding it's development. However, the
principal reason why the Reggie exercises
such severe control is with the object of
regulating the size of the plant. Again,
Ia this case the price is not allowed to be
debated, since it is entirely regulated
and fixed by the Treasury.
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Science has calculated that an average
puff of cigar smoke sets fire to over
2,000,000,000 tiny PARTICLES a Whit from
pipe iberates over ,8000 100000 of these
particles, and one from cigarette starts
2,900,000,000 of them flying through the
surrounding atmosphere. A very curious
fact concerning tobacco smoke is the re-
markable change in color which it under
goes after entering the mouth. From
the burning end of cigar the smoke is
sues in deep blue threads, while that
which is expelled from the mouth is of a
decidedly brownish tint. The difference
Is to De accounted for by the fact that
the minutest particles have an intense
affinity for moisture. When tobacco
smoke is drawn into the mouth its
smallest particles are Immediately de-
N5ached from the rest by the presence of
moist surfaces, to which they fly and
lodge.
Besides particles, smoke contains sew
eral gases and vapors. Though Sir Wal
ter Raleigh won his famous wager with
Queen Elizabeth, he took no account of
these when he attempted to show her
the weight of his smoke by substracting
the weight of the final ashes from that
of the unburnt cigar, and his demonstra-
ton would not hold good with any scien-
tist today. 1t has often been quoted
that a grain of nicotine, administered all
at once, would kill the strongest dog, and
from this has been argued it's terrific eff
fects on the body of human being
While this statement is undoubtedly
true, it is somewhat misleading. In or
der to commit suicide by smoking, the
dog would have to consume 400 strong
cigars, one right after the other. He
could put himself out of the world much
more easily by eating the boxes. What
ever the i'll effects of tobacco when used
to excess, in moderation it acts on an
adult as mild sedative. 1t is claimed
that after the thirtieth year it's use spro-
longs life and preserves the mind by les
sening the bodily functions of waste and
repair. Experts say that for smoking,
tobacco is one of the least injurious sub
stances known. Compared with other
we'll known vegetable substances used
for the same purpose, tobacco is very
mild. Opium, without doubt, is most
fearful in it's effects, for the drunkenness
it produces ultimately unbalances the
mind. Next to opium in power are GER
tain kinds of grasses, notable among
which is hemp, which causes intoxica-
t3On and anesthesia.
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Says the Canadian Cigar and Tobacco
Journal: THE recently enacted Porto
Rican tobacco tariff at SIC on leaf i'm
ported into the United States from that
country, instead of 35c, as formerly levied
has had the effect of greatly stimulating
the American demand for this tobacco.
The result is stiffening of prices and
almost cessation of the canvass for
orders for Porto Rican tobacco in Can
ada, the American market affording
much larger field for this leaf. The
value of the imports of wrapper leaf to-
bacco for the 10 months ending April 80,
1900, from Cuba to the U. S. was S202,-
992 binders and filters, 6,619, ,539, cigars,
1,788,51S. From Porto Rican,
wrappers, 1857, binders and filters, 49,