The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-11-07
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Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgeton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

A few days of casing weather during
the week has given the growers an op-
portunity to take down portion of the
hanging crop and commence the work OF
stripping. This date is somewhat earlier
than the usual time for removing the
crop from the poles, but the curing sea-
son has been more favorable than the
average and it is exceptional to find to-
bacco so thoroughly cured out in this
state by November 1st.. Then again the
large buyers are in hurry to commence
warehouse operations and have urged
growers TO start their stripping at an
early date as possible. Just what
amount of the crop can be taken down
at this time is hard to tell but it is prob
able number of the smaller lots will be
stripped out and put in readiness for
delivery. Growers need not be informed
that their tobacco will weigh more when
first stripped than any time afterwards,
and for this reason early delivery is fire.
quently sought after. Just as soon as the
dealers are satisfied that enough tobacco
is in readiness for delivery to keep the
warehouse steadily at work, receiving
will doubtless commence. Certainly dur
ing November number of warehouses
in the packing points ought to be in op-
Grafton with long season before them.
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To determine when tobacco is in prop
er case" that is, when the leaf has ab-
sorbed the right amount of moisture to
be taken from the sheds, requires the ex-
ercise of expert knowledge that the
growers have learned usually from ex-
perience. The great danger lies in per-
mitting the leaf to become in too high
case is the caution most generally ex-
pressed If the leaf is thin, as is the
case of the present crop, then that eau
tion is we'll worth heading. If the stalks
still retain moisture, which is most liable
to be the case this early in the season,
the piles without stripping. After the
leaves are once removed from the stalks
and properly bundled there is little dan
ger then unless the tobacco is in high
case. Some dealers are sending out in
structions to growers with whom they
have contracts covering these grounds
but especially cautioning growers to
keep out any damaged leaf when strip
ping.
After the experience which many to-
bacco growers have passed through, de-
livering crops sold in the fields, it is not
at all strange that New England grow
er should offer the following advice that
would seem we'll worth preserving: Don't
sell your tobacco on the poles; wait un-
you know just what you have to sell and
what you ought to get for it. Even when
you sell on the poles the buyer gener-
ally makes an offer for your tobacco in
the bundle, and then when you come to
deliver it there is always more or less
trouble about the price and as conse-
quence you very rarely get what was
bargained for at first. Therefore, isn't
it great deal more business-like to wait
until the tobacco is in the bundle where
both buyer and seller can see just what
they are bargaining for? Another thing,
don't be afraid that if you do wait until
your tobacco is stripped that your
chance of selling is gone because if the
buyer can't buy your tobacco on the
poles he will certainly be around to see
you again. Now let the growers all try
selling their tobacco after it is in the
bundle and see if the result is not salts
factory to both parties.
*.*
The Sumatra inscriptions having closed
for the year we are enabled to lay before
our readers in another place full and
detailed account of them, a perusal of
which will prove both interesting and in
structive, says the y. S. Tobacco Jour
nal. The 1901 Sumatra crop was the
largest with three exceptions, namely:
that of 1890 which amounted to 236, 1863
bales; that of 1898 which amounted to
,652 bales; and that of 1899 which
amounted to 264,O99 bales, the largest on
record so far. The average price it real
lied was 94c. Dutch. trife less than
4Oc. in our money. Only five other crops
brought lower prices namely, those of
1880, 81, '95, '98 and 99. All those crops
were above the average yield. The con-
clusion is therefore inevitable that the
larger the crop the lower the price it
fetches. Of course the average price
means for running lots, Stuckblad, brok-
en- leaf, filters, ETC., included.
*.*
The .. S. Tobacco Journal takes ex-
ceptions to estimated yield of the 1902
cigar leaf crop compiled by the Home
stead which is says is away too high,
both as regards the Ohio and Wisconsin
crops. Then the Southern crop, which
is nearly all the Florida and Georgia to-
bacco, is estimated by the Homestead"
at 1890 cases. at $50 pounds to the case,
which would amount to over five million
pounds. Now the Florida tobacco is not
packed in cases, but in bales, and the
bales do not weigh $50 pounds, but are
nearer the weight of the Sumatra bales. |
The Florida crop should be put down on |
an aytrnma octinata at million and |