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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS, April 3, 1908.


With the advent of hette- roads grow
ers are again delivering quite freely at
the packing points and the last of the
early purchases are being received. The
present week will see most of the bundle
goods brought in.
The unsold tobacco is receiving some
attention again in various quarters, but
prices are generally below those prevail
ing earlier in the season as the following
sales reaching us indicate:
r. Houfe, 1Ocs at 7&2c.
Chas. Bartz Ia at 5&1 nc.
Frank Cook, Ia at 5&l &c.
Peter Halverson, IA at 5&2c.
Some movement of 1901 from first
hands is also reported, though even
these goods exist only in widely scattered
lots. Business in old leaf among pack
ers is quiet, being confined mainly to
small lots to manufacturers.
The end of warehouse handling is in
sight for quite a few packers though
some firms have bundle goods in store
for several weeks yet. The first of the
seed beds for new crop are being laid
since the indications of an early spring
are again present.
The shipments out of storage reach
7O0cs, ID car loads, and cars of bundle
goods, for the week past from this mar
ket to all points.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
NEW YORK, March 25, 1908.

While the domestic leaf market is by
no means booming, sales of moderate
proportions are being made every day,
and few sacrifices are being made. There
is very fair demand for good old tobac-.
cos. Owing to the fact that goods are
moving in small blocks, it is difficult to.
get quotations. A feature of the week
was the sale of "a bales OF fine 1901 Flor
ida Sumatra Seed wrappers; price not
given.
Sumatra.-Co Considerable improvement
in this market was noticeable during the
past week, due in part, perhaps. to the
somewhat pessimstic view many are
taking of the 1902 crop. One sale of ~
bales of one mark at very satisfactory
price is among the transactions reported.
Havana.-The transaction Of the week
was the sale of about $50 bales of 1902
Remedies, all first capaduras, to an out
of-town party. The tobacco brought a
good figure and shows the attitude of
buyers toward the new crop. The situa
tion in the market generally remains un-
changed.-Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
MIAMIsBURG, O., March %. 1908.

Some buying in the country by several
packing concerns is reported, but the
absence If spirited competition has al
lowed prices to sag somewhat below the
top notch reached month ago.
Receiving continues to demand con-
siderable attention from packers, and de-
liveries are still very much in evidence.
though it is likely that by the coming
week the congestion will have subsidized,
and business will then be more moderate
or intermittent. More teams are re-
quired to deliver tobacco this year than
usual, on account of the law compelling
farmers to draw lighter loads than form,
erly.
Growers are securing their supply of
tobacco seeds for the coming crop. Am
ateurs should bear in mind that we have
experienced an unusually wet spring,
and the ground is likely to remain cold
for some little time yet Tobacco seeds
properly sown the third week ia April
should give better results than if sown
now.-News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market

The growers in the Connecticut valley
are more in favor of the confirmation OF
New England Tobacco Growers Associa-
ton, as is shown by their liberal SUBJ
scriptions.
The capital required by the corpora
tion should be subscribed by the local
corporations, allowing one or more dele
gates to attend the business meetings of
the general corporation, the one or more
members from the local corporations to-
have the power to vote the whole stock
in one block and o@e share to be unit
Of the whole, and to represent as / share
is to 5000 shares
We have to report the sale of few
lots at Wethersfeld, Ct., G. Ell. Warner,
J. Egan, I. Smith, to Miller of Hartford,
j. S. Wells, A. Griswold to Dickinson of
Hartford, G. E. Adams to Griswold of
West Hartford. The correspondent re-
ports that about one-half of the tobacco
remains in the hands of the growers.
that about the usual amount will be
grown the coming season. The buyers
seem 10th to pay more for the best than
they paid for the first sold.-Cultivato
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
New York.
NEW YORK, March %, 1903.

Aside from the now customary growl
of insufficient profits and harder work of
disposing the same quantity of goods in
smaller lots than was done form srly in
bulk, the market presents satisfactory
condition of activity. 1t is not ques-
tion of effecting sales, but one of getting
the proper types and a sufficient quan-
tity of them to sell. All types are being
called for and, of course, the scarcer the
greater demand for it. Filler and binder
stocks have a steady call and the brisk
ness with which the holdings of last
years Penns ylvania crop in the hands of
farmers and local packers have been con-
tended for speaks volumes for its con-
sumption. But the problem of the mar
ket is the domestic wrapper supply. The
New England Havana seed does not
seem to fill the bill this season as it has
done in previous seasons at this time,
and the new Florida is not quite market
able as yet, although here and there it
has OF necessity been forced to help out.
The main reliance, therefore, is on the
Sumatra, of which there is a goodly sup
ply of serviceable leaf on hand, not only
of the old stock, bat will soon be also of ]
the new importations which, to Judge
from the two inscriptions held, promise
a good leaf at reasonable price. Our
importers have bought quite heavily of |
the new leaf, as they have the market al |
most all to themselves, the competition |
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
NUMBER IT.

of the A. G. G. remaining so far dormant,
General surprise has been expressed in
the market at the absence of this COM
petition at the first two Inscriptions, but
it could be easily explained by the fact
of the enomous purchases of Sumatra by
the A. G. c., which must have amounted
for the past two years to about ten thous-
and bales. Evidently this stock has not
been consumed vet, and hence their ab-
stinence. The Havana market remains
steady and firm and promises some lively
times when the fact of the unreliability
Of the new Remedies crop for the Ameri-
can market becomes generally recogniz-
ed. A scrimmage for Havana tobaccos
is certainly due in the near future
Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
TIE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgeton, Wisconsin.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

We learn that tobacco growers are ex-
periencing some difficulty in getting
their tobacco seed to sprout, especially
seed grown last year. II this complaint
is general it is quite time that farmers
were apprised of it that they may act ac-
cordingly. No time should be lost in
testing the seed growers intend to use in
the coming crop, so they may know when
the time for laying the seed beds arrives
that the seed will surely germinate, else
some serious delays and disappointments
will occur. Just how far this complaint
extends we do not know, but it is we'll
for tobacco growers to be alert and sure
that they are supplied with good seed.
The failure of new seed produced last
season is doubtless due to the wet fall
and the neglect of growers to properly
dry their seed before storing it away. 1t
is a rare thing for tobacco seed to lose
it's vitality but such instances do some
times occur. It should be stated in this
connection that reliable dealers in to-
bacco seed invariably thoroughly test
their seed early before offering it for
sale, and growers are therefore secure in
dealing with reputable people making
business of propagating improved varie
ties of seed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03

age price per thousand was about $50.
This is a modest computation because
the Robert Burns, the General Arthur.
and the Tom Moore are brands that re-
tail at ten cents and the corporation
sells vast numbers of them. The man
ager whose statements are being report
ed points attention to the fact that
every department of business of the
United Cigar Manufacture is in charge
of the man best qualified to handle it
Tobacco World.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
SToUG#uoN, WIS. March 81, 1903.

The Stoughton market has been quite
dull of late and but few purchases have
been made. Bundle deliveries continue
and number of warehouses will run for
couple of months yet. Sorters are be-
coming scarce as many of them are re-
turning to the farm where their assis-
tance is needed III doing the spring work
which is about to start with a rush.
Three or four days of sunshine will en-
able the farmers to begin plowing.
Transactions in tobacco will not be nu-
merous until the harvesting of this years
crop. The 1902 now packed is passing
through the sweating process.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
Baldwinsville, NJ Y.

A considerable amount of tobacco has
been received here during the past few
days. Gieske & Niemann of Baltimore
have been receiving and have taken in a
large number of crops which have been
shipped as soon as assorted. M. Tobin
is reported as having made several pur-
chases for his firm, M. Rosenthal & Co.
of Lancaster, Penn, among them Fred
Schannon of Clay, Scs at 7c, and Butler
Bros, ICES at 7c. Farnham & Reynolds
of Corning are still in the field and have
made few purchases. A. Heinke, who
has been in Ohio making purchases for
his firm, returned home today. Gazette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03

Oscar Henmerstein, the New Yeck
theatrical manager, as the inventor of no
less than eighty devices of various kinds
on which he holds patents. His Iaeest
achievement is a machine for wrapping
cigacs. The thin wrapper is picked up
and held against "a wooden block by
which it proceeds to encircle from one
end to the other. Mr.. Hamnaerstein says
that at a cost of $3.50 per thousand, this
machine will do the work of a man who
is @ow getting $3.50 per thousand and
win do the work generally better.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03
Lancaster.
LANCASTER, Pa, March %. 1903.


There has been little or no change in
the condition of trade in leaf tobacco
circles Several sales of 1902 goods were
reported, but mostly in small lots. Con-
siderable of the 1902 Pennsylvania and
Connecticut which had undergone the
forced sweating process. has been placed
on the market and worked up with verv
satisfactory results. Those who have
used it say that the quality and texture
of the tobacco is all that can be desired.
A number of packers who have been en-
couraged by the results of the expert
ments of forced fermentation are having
their top grades and B's put through
the process in order to get them ready
for market at much earlier time than
is usual. 1t is conceded that the using
OF the 1902 crop at such an early stage,
IN measure relegates for the present
the 1901 goods which is yet held so
largely i'll the packers hands. From
present indications it is unlikely that
the 1901 crop will be called into requisi-
ton at an early date.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03

The New England tobacco Goower Of
fecs the following timely advice concern
ing the preparation of the seed beds:
First dig the dirt all out to the depth
OF s orD inches, then take half rotted
horse manure and fill the bed to the
depth of 6 inches after it is stamped or
p0nnded down, then place 3 or 4 inches
OF the best loan on top and add, 80 or 60
pounds of tobacco starter to every 80
feet of bed. Add good wood ashes, if
they ,asf handy. and rake both starter
and ashes in with an iron rake. This
should be done at least week or ten
days bsfore sowing the sprouted seeds,
but have done it by drenching the beds
with water and sowing the seed the day
following with good results, although
the former method is preferable. Mix
the sprnuted seed with fine dry river
sand and SOW one tablespoonful of seed
to square rod OF bed, then carefully
press the seed down with short board
and pounder; be sure to have the top of
the bed dry before sowing the seed.
Have on hand. at least a week before
planting, -four or five barrels of rain wat
er and with an ordinary watering pot
wet the bed thoroughly, and then put
on the cover and your plants wall come
along. If the rain water has a good
strong 0dor on account of standing in
the sun all the better for the plants.
Water between and 4 % clock .. m. BY
using cold we'll water or aqueduct water
you will keep the plants back a week, or
ten days.
The National Retail Dealers associa-
aion, recently organized to combat the
ancroachments of the trust, has begun
campaign OF education. The plans in
clade the raising of a general fund of
S2SO,O0O or 100000. This money is to be
used to send men through the country
to work up sentiment, and representa-
tives will be sent to the different cities,
who will remain there until the local
dealers have succeeded in reducing the
trust sales and in forming permanent
and strong combination. Where the
trust is the strongest, the first efforts
will be made, and small dealers are to be
taken care of out of this fund, SO that |
they will not lose while the fight con-
tinueS. 4
The manager of one of the larger fac
tories operated by the United Cigar |
and who is in the conf
dence of the officers of that corporation |
at headquarters in this city, is response
BILE for the statement, that during the |
twelve months ending March 1, the
United Cigar Manufacturers did busi- |
ness of s8,0O0,OOO, and made profit in
round numbers of just S1,000,000. The
company is capitalized at ST 100000. Its
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03

"A car load of sSilver Mine" white
seed oats; also pride of the North" and
"Iowa Gold Nine seed corn, just re-
ceived HEDDLEs LUMBER Co.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-04-03

"A bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
&C cigarette papers has passed the Wis
consin assembly without opposition and
now lies in the senate where the same
measure met it's defeat two years ago.
The tobacco trust was credited at that
time with having smothered the embrio
law in committee, but so far this year the
big octopus has not exhibited any con-
Germ over the proposed restrictive legis-
lation. The little tilt that occurred in
the senate over the reference of the bill
to committee as it came in from the
assembly shows that several honorable
senators considered the anti-cigarette
bill sstheir meat.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-10-15
HOMEGROWN San mas.

bananas have been successful
lv grown in Laurel. Strange IA
il may seem bunch of banaus
grown IN the city have fully de-
vcloped and are %ripcning. Rev.
ID. y. Bradford, pastor oithc First
Methodist Church. was exhibit
ing a homegrown banana Thurs
dav afternoon. He stated that n
bunch OF twelve had grown on
the banana tree in thc parsonage
yard, tina, nj wrr" - gYe.age
size aud ers .>G.. This
tree has not la ~. a.~tlcu!ar
care and the minister stai hat
h. will proteef - ,d'Fsrctrly
through the H@.e ,H cts
TO have fine ir..t next seasoa.-
Laurel chronicle.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-10-15

II Il pays 10 advertise Il nos
trum OF doubtful merits. i, will
certainly pay handsQmly ,oadvcr-
tisc Mississippi. Our resources
r incom parable and oGr adran-
tages extraordinary. So let each
town IN this stnto clec' "A Board
OF Trade aud the state make IN
appropriation for the establish.
ment OF a Bureau OF agriculture
aud immigration then we can pro.
coed in Il systematic manner 10
put before the best men in the
North the great opportunities in
this state.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-10-15

Breeders OF ANGORA GOATS
Pairs. trios or bucks shipped any.
where. transportation prepaid Az,
sale delivery guaranteed.
Guriey. L..
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-10-15
Bermuda Grass.

stone region Of Kentucky and
Tennessee, the southland from
Virginia to Texas has lacked a
grass which forms a turf similar
to the Kentucky blue grass. Not
but that there are grasses OF
many kinds in the South, Just as
over the western plains thereare
grasses. but in the south they
fail to form a close knit turf, so
pleasing to the eye and so help
full to Mother Nature in keeping
the surface of the earth ia the
best form for man and beast.
Nor has the absence OF a presls-
tent grass given any particular
anxiety to the Southern planter.
Cotton-growing means the clean
est sort of culture. The Southern
planter has been narrowed aud
ruined for the most part IN the
one absorbing effort 10 grow cot
ton. He has impoverished him
self because with but a single
crop return each year for all his
efforts there has been n steady
outlaw throughout the year for
mules, fertilizers and feeding
siuffs. The pasture lends OF the
north have largely contributed 10
furnish the animals to cultivate
the cotton fields and the beef and
pork to feed the Southern popu-
lation. The city OF Atlanta alone
receives over $4,000. 600 worth OF
meats annually from the North
and West.
\ change, however. ~ gradu-
aiy coming over the Southern
country in the introduction OF a
plant whose origin is more or less
Of mystery. The Bermuda grass
has gained a foothold over limit
ed areas throughout almost the
entire South. This humble den
lien of the field propagates itself
and spreads much as does the
strawberry plant. the aerial
stems bending 10 the ground and
taking root every few inches.
The plants so made enlarge rap.
idly until meeting their neigh
bors a sod is for med. \ plant
will reach outward in all dircc-
tons a half dozen feet in a year
orltwo. Bermuda grass does not
produce much seed in the South.
1t is spread by planting bits OF
the grass incheck a few feet each
way, each sprig gaining a foot
hold here and there until the field
..... - t
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-10-15

tendency OF the soil to wash. /"
billy regions one can sometimes
see gullies long enough and deep
enough to actually conceal a rail
road train were it 10 be dropped
within these gashes. The bum.
Bile Bermuda grass, patiently and
persitently creeping overthcsur-
face. reaches dow into these Gull
lies. trapping n little OF the earth
and holds !: 10 place. Bermuda
grass on rich lands will yield a
ton or more TO the acre Of excel.
cnt hay, though it is a pasture
grass rather than 4 hay plaut.
II is persistent even on TIE
poorest OF lands. Everywhere
it yields pasture 10 a surprising
amount. Indeed occ would think
from observing the number OF
cattle on a Bermuda pasture field
that gives better returns than
our boasted blue grass OF the far
Their north.
We hear repeatedly Of the
great possibilities OF the New
South" and how the people II,
awakening TO live stock husban-
dry and weakening their hold on
universal cotton growing. In
Bermuda grass the South has its
single aid 10 working
out its agricultural salvation.
Continuous cotton cultivation
means rum 10 the land. Even
tho expensive use Of fertilizers
only leng,hens the period of dis
as,cr. Animal husbandry and
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1903-09-29
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Der Staotrat oon 6Dultpn Bat
Die SroiHauS angenornmen, burG
Delhe Die S~traBenbabns Gompaenie
uerpflihtet lit, Compartment Cara
fir WeiBe uno 5arbiee einsufn6reu
uno 5ruar innerbatb oreiBtg Gaa..!.
SIN 0iitriftaeribt al GDlum.
bus 1T Der BruseB gegen @reepriD
@orteS i'm @anae, Der engeflnat 1T,
am Ia. SUM 1901 ben GberiT so.
@looer nDn @Du5nles Guuntn err
ihpfien Su babeu.
0puD. 2anbam bat 8pei STA.
iAen nit giftigen GLllfigfeiten err
bnlten, bic DDn Cairo, NeaDpten,
fommen uno mie ~anaeaeben fuiro,
ben 8aumnDl 8eeoit ausrDtter
loQen.
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oeufaa am MDntao 81 30a. Der
Negen eritredte iih binein in Merife
Biz na6 Durango. Die Wterifani,
fhe Snternationals Balm bat 26 8ri.
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eingebhBt,
Das Selfelb in Sour Safe
toiro ilnr1er me6r ausaebebnt. Gtmo
bier Weileu uDn giurte 1T in Der
2iGe n0n 935 SUB cine QuelIe e,t.
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Benumont miro Elm ernffes @Drt
init ben @ebetsbeilern Ipreden mt
ibre @inmiidung, ~nenieitens in
Beaumont, 81 perbinoern Iuden.
sGg itarb bort Elm iunger Mann am
Ibpbus, Der drstlide 6alfe uertpei,
aerte un0 iib pm auspdrts ourG
@ebete fariren laiien uullte.
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MilIOn feline Srou pabren6 iie
idlief uub oann iih ielbft, neil ole
Bvan cine Sbeiounasfloge anbdn,
aia aetnadlt hattie.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1903-09-29
Sei,s %soatan0lt0y
Sine SSeTd,einianna oon San MntDniO
bat Wert bet'm Sal M%ntDuiD'er
gnnlifam.

SIR fbnnt baS Bublifum ni6t
INNER tduiben.
&c Miro Sud 8ulebt erfennen.
SeoeSmQl, penn @iner getduiGt
miro, miro ein neuer Steptifer GEE
ldaHen.
IS giebt oiele 6eiltnittel, Die Step
tifer mad)en:
@eil iie ibre 8erlpreben nift balz
ten!
Doan's @ierenpinen brin=
gen neue Sepeile.
Sic furieren Die Sfeptifer.
Betuetle in 6ilIe uno Sulle am
9rte.
Die 8emeile eDn San Wntonio
qetten fir bic San Nutonio'er.
0ier ein SAT-:
Der Waurer $. s. 0eitaeu, Der
fetne Office in Der GaitrBzS traBe bat,
lagt. SD batte eineu idiperen SAL
upn Hi1eui6mer5e1t, nobel Shmers
gen ourb meiuen oan5en S0rper
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meguug mamte. sic entItanoen burdJ
@rfditung poer Don inwerem 6eben
nno qudlten MIDI Sag uno 0aht.
Nadts fonntei1 nibt Ihlafen uno id
ermabte Wtorgens 10 mitoe, tpie i'd
mar, als ih mid su 8ette leate.
Die Musideioungen pDn Den Gleren
paren auBer 9ronura, tart aefdrbl
uno poler SAP. SD oeriubte per,
idiebene Meoi5inen, aber feline bal'
mir, biz id bDrte, oaB Doan {
N~ieren=Billen bel Slider &
Gpringaa uno i'm 8erar Drug Store
gu baben ltno un0 ib faufte eing
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0eren 8irfung; Die gnt5iuoune Del
Nieren lieB nad], bic 6Hdeni6mer.
gen ueridJtpnnoen ln0 ieBt bin id
feel oon alien Spmptomen Der gtie:
renfranfbeit.
@rbdltlid] bel anen Droauiiten
8rets so Gents. Softer WiiQburt
gp. in 8nffalo, g. g., nueinigG
Nqerten fir Die Ser. Staaten.
8ergeBt uibt ben 6amen 0Oar
un0 dceeutirt fem Subititut.