The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-08-09
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

AS we view it, nothing can be gained
in Disgusting the fact that the prospects
for the growing tobacco are far from en-
couraging. The conditions hoped for to
bring about the maturing of the crop
after the prolonged drouth had been
broken do not materialize. No rains
have fallen in the tobacco belt during
the week and the soil is again about as
devoid Of moisture as during the drouth
period. Under such conditions the
growing fields are being dwarfed and
spindling with little hope that anything
like desirable binder leaf can be OBJ
tanned. The season is also getting late
with such liability for cool nights that
a spready leaf can scarcely develop even
should rains come now. 1t seems like a
safe prediction to write that the growers
can hope for but little more than ''B"
crop throughout the great tobacco belt
of the state. To say how extensive
this will prove is mere guess at pres
ent, for the yield at best promises to be
the ightest that has been produced in
years. There may be limited areas where
the showing is more encouraging and
possibly some binder leaf may be secur
ed, but as general survey of the pros
poets at this writing the above outlined
is a correct status as we view it.
***
From statistics computed from the
revenue department for the fiscal year
closing June 30th, remarkable showing
is made that six billion and half of ci-
gars were tax paid. The U. S. Tobacco
Journal observes in commenting on the
statoment:
Te,comprehend the full and tremen-
dous significance of these figures it may
be well to point out that they equal the
production of three entire previous years,
viz, 1879, 1880 and 1881; further, that it
took eight years to add a thousand mil
lions to our cigar production, viz, from
1882 to 1889 inclusive; and that another
thousand millions were not added I'm less
than nine years, from 1890 to 1899, while
in the space of two short years, tine two
nnoaJ lass nsldr ~ aao t, oar go +mo ,.raa nn
millions,
In speaking of the production ef our
cigar industry we naturally include the
Assle MsHicno o9lns wIeo4ig NJ illsaue 81
mr. cioar ;nS,Sstrv S9narnHed bowever
the cigar proper shows am increase in it's
output of over four hundred millions
while the output of little cigars increas-
ed by thirty-seven millions and ia half,
Tn tho maa antima thasa hss ihaen a de-
N. .,e>, ,ea NJ 1,: - e.
oio"eo y. ''"'f nAiiiion' a'A 'ii0 ou'puV "
cigarettes Tor the hscad year. mus the
popularity of the little ''o0ffn nails is
on the wane.
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Az E-.,-;,1o ..a;so. ,r4to ,.a,,,a soa,oa
=, -,
~ throw stone out mas Daoh door WIN
out hitting tobacco patch, sweeps up
the following crumbs of comfort for his
,booo 49,, ,o.+, 90 a+
ne z, is "i1o'0 "P t"0's'eo'' "Ao no'
Oh tne oess'
1uotaCaa1ly eKAO a~AA0aO WI tAO IOOoCCO
crop this season will mean "a great dam
ooo r. tho oonn+r,, b,,+ if - sbo,,d so
aeo W 0no N""5' "U' M ~ 0ooio ~
discourage the growers that they would
resort to some other product just as
profitable as they may, it would prove
ono of tho oro.+ast hlosesroS +bo+ ovor
o'o-
visited US; no raiser OF TOBACCO mas ever
become rich from its growing, while we
will acknowledge that many of it's pur-
ehasers have to quite an extent, but not
excessively so, as many have in other vo-
cations.
."We do not actually beaieve that the
catizens of Rock county are one cent bet
tar. off, if they are as we'll, as if they had
never grown one acre of tobacco We
believe and know that the growing.
handling, and everything connected with |
tobacco has detrimental. degrading in |
fuence with all who are in ang way con
nectsd with it. no matter what their con-
nectban with it may be, even i'm the strip |
ping ano assortlng rooms "aere tnere
an1nlomod @bo vow n,ore,+ ,,aa,,,a 8 poop1,o ~
l,o occoo;o+o1 Ill 4L - u Ill