The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-08-02
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

Lie mOSG serious urOutu IlldC has 0SOI
effected the tobacco growing sections of
this state has at last been broken. Rains
of a general nature covering the tobacco
belt have fallen during the week and in
some localities the rainfall was so abun-
dant as to thoroughly soak up the soil
and give the growers hope that some
sort of tobacco crop will yet be har-
vested. In a few sections the initial
storms were very severe, amounting to
almost tornado, which blew down and
demolished large number of tobacco
sheds and farm buildings - possibly a
hundred in the towns of Pleasant
Springs, Deerield and Christiana. Hail
also accompanied this storm that riddled
many of the early fields of tobacco along
it's track. The damage from hail, how
ever, is no comparison to the loss of farm
buildings. Enough rain has fallen IN To-
calities in the tobacco section to ensure
the maturing of the tobacco that had
survived the drouth and hot, burning
winds. What percentage this will
amount to of the original paintings is
yet hard to determine. It seems like a
safe estimate from the information at
hand to say that possibly one-half the
plants originally placed in the fields
throughout the state are living, and un-
der favorable conditions from this on
may yield something of harvest.
X.
There has been great improvement
in tobacco fields since the drouth was
broken nearly a week ago. AS has been
before stated the hope of harvest lies
in the medium set fields - those which
had made but little progress during the
dry weather. Their growth now is
amazingly rapid and with plenty of
moisture stand to make yield of quick
grown binder leaf. The weather condi-
tions, of course, needs be favorable alike
before the harvest and during the curing
stage to accomplish this desired result.
Tobacco is such quick growing plant
that scarcely a season passes that does
not furnish some surprises to those who
WAUGH Che ileios mature 1he eAellen'e
may deal with it unkindly, drouth may
Iinch and the hot breath of a burning
wind wither it, but give it half a chance
ana 1t VIII come up smlilhg "heh lno0'
other crops are apparently past ali re-
demption. No product of the farm can
ha so .+orvod ord ,oo,oo+od INV +ho bnc-
w ~ e'"A "o :,
oandman and still ylelo sncn results.
No plant is more tenacious of life and
resnonds more willingly to the reviving
ofao+. of o;s+,,ra .nd +;l,oao +b.n To-
on''' - '''-O 'e0
oacco.
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A correspondent writing from New
ENGLAND gives the following inflammation
:,
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snade:
AS yet only a few growers have en-
barked upon the experiment of growing
Sumatra leaf under shade, and hun
area acres Will DrOOdOlV cover the COCdl
shade-guown acreage in New England.
The tentgrown leaf is widely distributed
geographically, a fact which will prove
- -. ~. I.s4 - ~ ~ . %nn ~ eoiao
retary Wilson estimates that 5000 acres
will produce all the Sumatra leaf needed
in the United States New England has
1900 acres of soil available for tobacco
culture, and probably 10000 acres are
suitable for shade-grown leaf. Mean
while Florida tobacco growers ardAblant-
ing large acreages of Sumatra under tent,
and the State Commissioner of Aericul-
ture of Georgia is authority for the state
ment that 500 acres of Sumatra are being
grown under cover on one farm in that
state. It is evident that Connecticut
Valley planters will have no monopoly of
the shade-grown tobacco industry, and
the result which appears most probable.
should the tent idea prove all that it is
claimed to be. is CHEAPER leaf for the
manufacturers.