The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-08-08

las commenced. J. lie ldGeT IOUdCCO ACldo
are coming on with rapid strides and an
extraordinary heavy crop is promised.
No hail is reported in any of the tobacco
growing sections during the week, or
even severe storms that might damage
the prospect A tendency to rust COM
planned of in certain quarters is disap.
pearing with the return of clearing
weather. The outlook for full average
crop at this writing could not well be
improved upon.
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The internal reyenue receipts from our
cigar, cigarette and tobacco industries
for the fiscal year ended June 30, pub
lished in the U. S. Tob. Journal, reveal
the fact that the fiscal year OF 19Ol-O2 is
the biggest year on record as far as the
prod uction as our cigar industry is con-
cerned. The output of our cigar indus
try during that period beats anything on
record so far. For the output of full
fedged cigars amounted to 6. .1O3, ,567 ,265,
total of 1864, ,499, ,635: and the total in
little cigars amounted to 400 O61 ,216 over
the combined output in the fiscal year
19OO-O1. To the increase the full -fedged
little cigars 76,428, 800. Five years ago
the leaf market was voted by our leaf
merchants down town to be in highly
prosperous condition. Evidently they
seemed to be satisfied with the existing
II e., ,,+ syo
1897, the output of our cigar industry
twenty eight hundred million cigars less
ane month ago. Suppose now that the
two big cigar combinations do put out
fifteen hundred million cigars, there re-
main thirteen hundred million more ci-
gars manufactured by individual firms
than were in 1897, the raw material of
which had to be supplied by the leaf
market Can anyone explain why the
market should have been more salts
factory and prosperous in 1897 when it
supplied raw material to individual fac
tories for thirteen hundred million cigars
less than now? And in 1897 plenty of
tobacco of many previous years crops
was on hand while the market to-day is
about bare of any kind of old stock.
There is not the least doubt that the ad-
vent of the big combinations has stimu-
lated the consumption of cigars at the
expense of the production of the cigar
cite and tobacco industries. For while
the fiscal year just closed shows also an
increase in the output of cigarettes and
manufactured tobacco, that output does
not show anywhere the proportionate in
crease since 1897 the output of the cigar
industry shows.
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A correspondent writing from New
England says the recent hail storms in
the Connecticut Valley gave the first
chance this season in which good test
could be made of the stability and util-
ity of the tents, now SO generally used to
protect crops of growing tobacco from
damage. The frames withstood the Sc
we're strain of the high winds and the
cheese-cloth covering gave ample pro-
lection to the plants underneath. This
new method of raising tobacco, while ex-
pensive, in comparison with the old, has
SO many advantages that it will undoubt-
edly be used more generally year after
year. The damage by the recent hail
storm has been overestimated. Only
small sections were affected, and in these
only the early or largest tobacco suffer
ed severely. In a section of East Hart
ford along the Glastonbury line there are
probably 100 acres more or less damaged.
Some of it to the verge of ruin, but in
some cases, much more severe storm
would not have knocked the crop out,
owing to its being late tobacco.
The recent combine of the stogie man.
ufactures has adopted the name of the
United States Cigar Co., having a capi-
tai of 81 100000. A man we'll up in the
manufacturing business had this to say
regarding the consolidation: 1.-The merg-
er was brought about by the attempts of
the American Cigar Co. to enter into the
toby and cheap cigar field in competition
with a number of firms which have been
in this business for years, and which
have furnished practically nine-tenths of
this class of goods. The combination
was made by the manufacturers in this
section as Il matter of protection. In
those portions of the country where the
American Cigar Co. is making efforts to
gain foothold, the new company will ]
be most aggressive" The companies in
cluded in the new corporation manufac-
ture annually something over 280,000,000
tobies, cheroots and cheap cigars.
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The agricultural statistics, just COM
pleted by the county auditor of Mont |
gomery county, Ohio, show that Miami
township last year had 2772 acres Of to- |
bacco. from which were raised 1,169650 |
pounds of the weed. This was more
than any other township The entire |
county produced 9,615,410 pounds of the |
leaf. These figures show Miami town |
ship to be the greatest tobacco raising |
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