The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-06-03

soon as the fields can be prepared to re-
ceive them.
Mr. A. L. Fisher of GAINESVILLE, has fur
nished The Gazette detailed statement
of the approximate acreage yield and
price of all the tobacco crops grown in
this state for the past 25 years. His es-
innate gives the average yield at 1877
pounds per acre and the average price
to grower 7 cents. He also figures a
clear profit to the farmers of Wisconsin
in the past 25 years of S43,O00.000. All
this is published in a special edition de-
voted to the beet sugar crop calculated
to urge growers to substitute sugar for
tobacco. This showing, we imagine, will
| pe hard proposition for the recent con-
verted beet growers to go against. When
| the beet men are able to show an aver
age gross income of over 800 per acre in
series of 25 years they must do better
than the beet growing districts OF the old
world are ab}esto do. Just keep these
figures in mind the next few years to
| come, please, and watch out fer results.
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Tobacco as an insurance risk has been
subject to so much unfavorable COM
ment ia times gone by. it is certainly re
fresbing to hear an expert Journal come
| to the defense of this much abused
property:
Tobacco as fire risk rs again attract
| ing mach attention amogag underwriters
| operating in Connecticut, and wide
variance of opinion and experience gives
| to the subject an unusual interest.
| While many companies have written the
class with profit for years, some under
! writer's have been less fortunate, with
| the result that tobacco may now be
found upon quite few prohibited lists.
! A correspondent Of The Insurance Press
| in conversation with 6 member of large
Hartford agency controlling several large
| tobaGco risks, among them being two Of
the largest "shadegrown" corporations
in Connecticut, was told that, whereas
| the agency had collected many thous-
ands Of dollars in premiums during the
past five years, only $4,000 had been paid
out FOR losses, leaving larger margin of
profit than that realized on almost any
! other class. Inquiries among other
agencies developed thefact that in the
majority of cases fair profit had been
realized. It is the general belief among
agents in that state that the aversion
| which some companies show toward to-
bacco risks is due more to ignorance and
| ungroVnded prejudice than to high
| loss ratio "-Insuranoe Press, Chicago.
| *x*
A novel and interesting case involving
| the responsibility of samplers of leaf to-
| bacco came up last week before Justice
William S. Andrews in the supreme
court at Syracuse, says New York
trade journal. The plaintiff was Abra-
ham Rosen bloom, local leaf dealer, and
| the defendants, Frazier M. Dolbeer and
| Geo. f. Secor, doing business as leaf to-
bacco inspectors under the firm name of
F. G. Linde, Hamilton g. Co., of New
York. The substance of the complaint
was that the defendants had inspected
and sampled plaintiffs tobacco and had
attached their cards of warranty thereto;
that the sanapling had been defective,
and that in consequence thereof the
plaintiff had suffered damage to the ex-
tent of resampling, shrinkage, freight
and carriage and loss Of sale. The argu
| ment of the defense was to the effect
that the plaintiff could not recover for
a breach of warranty on his own tobac-
CO; that defendants could not be. held
responsible for deterioration of the to-
bacco SO long as it remained in posses
sion of the original owner. The court
accepted defendants plea, taking the
view that the plaintiff could not recover
the S703 damages for loss Of sale. the
1892 expenses of resampling and the
55051 for shrinkage. However, to the
$50 expenses incurred for freight and
carriage, there might be cause for action.
It being necessary for the plaintiff to re
cover $50 damages in order to entitle
him to costs, the defendants decided to
accept a verdict against them to the ex-
tent of $50, and so to save time and
trouble.
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