Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-01-02
IN THE KIsGDod OF TOBACCO.
Facts About Wisconsin acknowledgements
that Gave Great Financial Returns.

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that Gave Great Financial Returns.
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With the opening of the new year
there is little of moment to record local
w. For six weeks deliveries have Deen
made in moderate way, bnt 1t Is ex-
pected the sorting houses will now be
filled TO their capacity and "a stin Dusi-
ness done in casing and receiving goods.
1t appears that they are having serious
time with too high case and damaged
tobacco at al otbt. packing points in
the state and the trouble is met in very
much the same nh.uner as in this city
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/ The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter con-
tains following items Of interest to grow
ers:
Packers are again resorting to a variety
of experiments III packing their tobacco
this season to avoid danger from black
rot, some of them following the line of
other years that proved fairly successful
and Others adopting an entirely new
method The plan of bulking the leaf
as it comes from the sorting tables for a
week or such a matter before packing is
adopted by several firms. This plan
permits the moisture to become evenly
distributed through the bulk without
allowing the tobacco to get warmed
enough to start fermentation, but an
even temperature is kept while the leaf
is in bulk Others are packing it light
now with the intention of repacking In
April or May before the tobacco goes
into the regular GUNNER fermentation.
A few packers, we learn are packing
regular, that Is, putting the usual
amount of tobacco into the case now,
with view of repacking and shaking
out before the leaf gets started sweating.
| All these various met mods entail addi-
tional cost for LABOR TO the packings but
if it results in reducing or preventing the
much dreaded black rot damage, all
agree the money is well invested
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| Trouble experienced in delivering the
present crop might serve as a warning
against the unbusiness like practice of
| buying tobacco in the field or before it
cured Rarely does trading under such
conditions prove satisfiici Try to both the
buyer and the seller. The ~rower con-
tracts to sell sound and merchantable
tobacco without knowing whether his
crop will fill these req 1irements OF cot.
After the crop is sold tire temptation IL
great to strip into bundles tobacco that
| will not pass muster un0&r the usual
requirements of merchantable leaf. If
the tobacco was unsold and close in
spection expected before the SALE the
chances are that he would use greater
care in stripping and much of the stuff
that now causes trouble at delive cry
would not be found in the bundles. Che
buyers, too, begin to realize that they
take long chances in agreeing to pay
good strong price for tobacco that they
can scarcely tell what its character will
be when it is delivered to them at
their warehouses. The lesson of this
season, we imagine, will be a wholesome
one to all concerned and if it results in
less rushing to the green fields of buyers
when another crop is grown SO much
the better.
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Milton Whitney, chief of division of
soils, reports successful termination of
experiments conducted in cooperation
with the Connecticut experiment sta
tiou in the production of Sumatra tobac
co near Hartford One third of an acre
was planted under a cheese q 9th shade
nine feet high and cultivated and fer
mented under the direction of M. L.
Floyd, tobacco expert of the department
| nG 1Actd III CuAbn bODdCCO was tUo
pounds, making an estimated yield FOR
2, 100 pounds. This lost 10 per cent in
fermentation. The crop has just been
sold by L. b. Haas 81 Co. of Hartford, TO
Michaelsohn & Hubbard of Kansas City
for $437. 10 making an estimated value
for one acre for 81, 42t. The cost of
production including the whole cost of
the shade, the frame for which will last
five years, will not exceed $500 an acre,
leaving net profit Of over 5000 an acre.
This was an average price of II cents a
pound. The crop grown in the same
field without shade and fermented in
the same way, yielded aboat the same
and brought ~ cents pound or at the
rate of $507 81 an acre. Deducting the
cost of cultivation fertilization and
treating this would leave profit of
about $500 an acre, The ordinary crop
J of the Connecticut valley brings the
farmer about 20 cents pound or $3.50
an acre, and deducting the cost of ex-
penses, leaves profit of about $3.50 an
acre The Sumatra tobacco grown I'M
der shade has been submitted to New
York and Philadelphia business men
and has been pronounced entirely salts
factory and fully equal to imported
Sumatra.
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