The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-09-20
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Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

IrOSG WARNINGS SoQC OUT Uy lie WodIuoI
bureau has prompted a vast deal of
hustling among the tobacco growers.
Every available hand has been working
long hours in an endeavor to secure as
much of the outstanding crop as posi-
BILE. Many fields have been cut and
piled in an effort to beat out the frost
king. The harvest is now delayed so
near the usual frost line that every
change in the weather is viewed with
alarm by farmers who have tobacco yet
in the fields. A light frost came We'd
nesday morning to scar vegetation.
The scare has probably caused some un-
ripe tobacco to be sacrificed and if the
promised frosts had come would have
caught more tobacco in the fields than
in great many years past. The dan
ger seems past now until the next storm
period.
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The rainy weather of late has inter-
fered materially with the harvest of the
new crop which is already delayed much
behind the usual time for this work.
Probably not one-half of the crop in the
southern growing counties had been Sc
cured at the opening of 1is week. The
rains, which have been the most copious
of the season, have been of great value
to the standing tobacco, of course, and
assisted materially in the ripening of the
later fields. But the chief concern now
will be the curing of the crop to be
shielded from this on It is so rare that
we are able to secure bright colored
leaf from tobacco harvested this late in
the season that it is only with the very
best weather conditions that we may
hope to have really fine leaf from the
bulk of the present crop. A year ago
this date not only was the crop "practic-
ally harvested, but two-thirds of it was
cured out, leaf and stem.
The contrast with the present condition
is such a striking one that it cannot
trade The light, bright colored Wis
consin leaf invariably came from the
early fields in this latitude.
***
While so much has been published
about growing tobacco under canvas to
initiate the imported wrapper, it is prop
er to consider the following observations
IF an eastern correspondent:
How this shade grown tobacco will
come out is the all-important question.
The growers who have tried the expert
nent, and it was quite costly expert
nent, say that they are trusting to luck. !
It is said that this shade grown tobacco
shows no lustre whatever. All green
hings growing that get sweet and ripe
ret it from the sun and in tropical coun-
ries tobacco is grown in the open where
t gets all the sunlight possible. That is |
Why it is glossy and delicately strong. |
rhe shade grown Connecticut Sumatra |
s sound and free from insect holes, for |
he insect pests could not get at it, but |
S it such leaf as the trade wants? Those |
patches which were grown under shade |
lad great deal of moisture. Indeed |
wen late in the month the ground was
muddy and the moss which grew at the |
dges was strong and of very brilliant |
,reen. One farmer in Connecticut has |
,rown crop in field which he sur
ounded with mosquito netting. He left |
he top open to the sun. The netting
lept out the insects and the sunlight |
lid a full days work on his crop every |
lay that it didn't rain. This crop seems |
O promise better than those crops which |
we're grown under tents, for the leaf is
,lossier and apparently stronger. But |
he whole experiment of growing Suma-
ra under shade in Connecticut is still to |
eceive the one test by which it is to
tand or fall ll-compitition in the open
market with the real sure enough Suma-
ra.
***
The latest chapter in the legal contro-
7ersy between Joseph Mayors Sons, the
New York leaf packers, and the fifteen
Big Flat growers whose 1900 crops were
for by Messrs. Mayer, was
nacted in the supreme court, Steuben |
county, on Thursday last. Readers of
he Leaf will remember that after the
ourts had sustained Messrs. Mayors
that the cases should be tried |
n New York city, the farmers brought
ounter suits in their local courts, hop
ng to have the issues settled there.
Knowing that it requires over a year to
each cases of this kind in New York
ity, while they can be disposed of. in a
ew months in rural courts, the farmers
'elieved that their counter suits would
'e tried first, and if won by them, the
Jew York suits would have to be aban-
oned. On Thursday last several of
hese cases were called before Judge
itch of the supreme court, Steuben Co.,
nd jury. Benjamin Tuska, who has
epresented Jos. Mayors Sons through
ut the entire proceedings, asked the
ourt to take up the special pleas before
DING into the defense of the actions
enerally. This was done, and after ar
were presented as to the suf-
cheney of the pleas, the court stated
hat the Steuben county suits could not !
e maintained, and dismissed the com
laints. However, in order to allow the
armers to raise the question upon ap- {
cal, the judge directed the appointment
referee to take the evidence that
-aTld have hnnn prncnntnd f0 tho irrv | 4,