Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-05-01
BIG PACKING DISPOSED OF
gekhardt Shannon Sell Their westby Holdings Of
Tobacco

! Throughout the state there is much
! activity in the tobacco business. The
warm weather of the past two weeks
/ has hurried everything saleable to mar
ket points and packers are endeayor'Tg
TO bring work To- a close in their ware
houses. Sampling the newly packed
crops Is going forward as well "a sorting
and casing Ii is an unusual occurrence
~ nave these two opera aions at the same
time.
Several carloads of case aud bundle
goods have been taken off the branch the
past week and large quantities are tn
follow Tallard and Uuderhill We're tt
principal shippers
The largest sale Of the season for
western Wisconsin was consummattd
the past week whe. Eekhardt Il Shannon
sold their We>thy packing of 1900 goods.
some i 500 cases to w. S Brill for Kerhs,
Ner helm & Shitfar, the large New
York manufacturing firm This is said
TO be the first large SAFE of the new pack
ing. The same firm has sold 100 cases
of low grade goods IA Fred Borden. Mr.
Eckhardt also sold ca the same party
SEQ cases of poor stuff from his local
warehouses. Shipment of these sales
commence at once, and it will require
forty cars to move the same.
Brye 81 johnson of Westby, sold 500
cases from their 1899 packing to c. f.
Mabbett of Edgerton.
The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter COM
menting on conditions ss VS. Seed beds
that have been sown prior to the present
week need be looked after closely else
there is likely to be shortage of plants
later on The hard freezes that have
occurred nightly the past week followed
by the cold drying winds is quite GER
tain to have killed the germs of sprorted
seed that has been sown and necessitate
the re-sowing of the beds Cold that is
severe enough to freeze the ground quite
solidly is very likely to penetrate the
usual coverings of plant beds. The sea
son SO far is extremely backward and no
Advantage SO far has been obtained by
the early sowing of tobacco seed Ex-
perienced growers have learned that To
be perfectly safe it il best to plant beds
at different stages during the spring and
thus guard against such unreasonable
weather that has occurred the greater
part ot April. Under favorable condi-
tions sprouted seed can be sown after
may first and still yield plants in time
for the usual transplanting the crop. At
the present writing it begins to look as
II much of the plant beds will be delayed
well towards that date this season.
The buy yof last seasons crop b. (
reached a 1t where the remnants are
becoming closely gathered in At best
but few thousand cases-so few that
they can be counted on one hand remain
in growers hands. At the rate the
scattering lots are being absorb ID the
country districts will soon become 20
bare that the crop is practically lifted.
There is probably no more tobacco in the
farmers hands today than there was
year ago this date.
Deliveries are still being made at the
the warehouses in moderate way, and
a few packers have bundled stock on
hand sufficient for several weeks yet
Warmer weather prevails this week and
growers are very generally putting out
tseir plant beds. The chances are that
much of the early sown sprouted seed
will have TO be replanted owing to the
heavy freezes of last week.