The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-07
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
Edgerton,

season of the tobacco crop will
be nearly two weeks behind that of
year ago and somewhat later than the
average of several seasons past. A year
ago this date considerable tobacco was
pitched in the fields and plants
were generally ready for the entire crop.
The situation is somewhat due to the
general backwardness of the season and
the cold dry weather has delayed the
growth of the plants. In exceptional
cases little transplanting has COM
menced throughout the tobacco section,
but the work will scarcely become gen
eral before June 10Th or possibly some
what later. Some growers are complain
ing of scarcity of plants, basing their
opinion upon the fact that the beds are
not as thickly covered with young plants
as usual. 1t is a rare thing, however,
late years when there is not sufficient
plants somewhere in the neighborhood
to set all the intended acreage. even
though the work of getting out the crop
is delayed somewhat. A backward sea
son is not alone confined to this state for
the reports coming from the other cigar
leaf states bear similar complaints
Everywhere along the line the trans
planting season bids fair to be about two
weeks behind the usual date for this
work.
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A late transplanting season is not gen
orally considered prophetic of good to-
bacco crop. The experience of late
years has proven that the earlier set
fields have yielded the much more de-
sirable tobacco crops. Especially is
this northern climate tobacco that ma
lures before the cooler weather of late
September invariably cures out thinner
in texture with better colors and is in
every way intended to fill the market de-
mands for Wisconsin leaf Tobacco ma
turing later in the season is much more
difficult to cure while it always assures
darker colors and is seldom able to COM
mand the price paid for the early har-
vested crops. For these reasons growers
have learned that the earlier the crop
cangse gotten into the fields in this eli
mate the better their prospects for Sc
curing good crop, all things being con-
sidered. OF course the growing season
has much to do with the final result
but genecally speaking an early start is
always to be preferred. The right kind
of weather that tends to promote quick
rapid growth in the fields would doubt
less overcome the delay in transplanting
and frequently does, but these are mat
ters for the weather man to arrange for
***
It lis true that unless the cutworm ac-
tually attacks the germ of the plant it
can't be destroyed by one meal from it's
stable leaves. And this size is easier
and quicker obtained in the plant bed
than after it is transplanted. Great care
should be taken if cutWorms are abun-
dant, to guard the young plants from
being ruined. To do this, mix thorough
ly Paris green with plaster paris and
give each plant slight sprinkling of the
mixture. Use one part of Paris green to
seven of plaster paris, and sift it through
wire gauze attached to the end of tin
tube and IL inches in diameter, and
say three feet long. To make the de-
livery effectual, use stick, striking the
holder a tap at each hill. In this way a
full stand can be had, which is very de-
sirable.
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The most important effect in connec-
ton with the Supreme Court decisions
is the bearing they will have upon the
tariff relations of the United States to
the Philippines. Porto Rico is a small
island with necessarily limited output
of tobacco, the character of which is
tolerably we'll known. The Philippines,
on the other hand, while at present pro-
ducing an inferior grade of tobacco, pos
sess an enormous area of rich lands, the
capabilities of which can only be guessed
at. What might be done in the way of
improving the quality of Philippine to-
baccos is equally matter of conjecture,
and therefore the question of the power
of this government to levy duties on
Porto Rican products entering the
United States is a most momentous one.
The total collections on Porto Rican
merchandise entering the United States
after the island came into our possession
and prior to May l, when the Foraker
act became operative, amounted to lit
tie less than one million dollars. Of this
sum $4,000 was paid on leaf tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes, and in due time
will be refunded by the Treasury De-
partment. Washington Cor. to u. S.
Tobacco Journal.
M. L. Floyd, the government expert
who is supervising the shaded tobacco
growing in Connecticut, says that the
total amount to be planted experiment
tally in Connecticut this year will be
forty acres, some of it in Litchfeld
county, the largest area owned by one
man being twenty acres. The cost of
for the shade is about 1926
an acre the first year, or 15 cents pound
for the acres product of tobacco In one
place the experiment is to be tried under
a considerable area covered by glass
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