The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-09-30
Tobacco Notes

| obacco Notes
! Chas. f. Tallard left for New York
Wednesday evening for brief business
| trip.
Jos. Bimberg of Elmira, II. Y, passed
portion of the week in this market in
| search of cured stock.
| Mr.. Albert Calm, with the firm of G..
b. Spitzner & Co., New York, is renew
ing acquaintance in this market.
Mr.. Chas. E. Rocket, OF Rocket Bros.
Il Co., st. Louis leaf dealers, passed
few days of the week in this market.
Mr.. Chas. Wexebaum, of the firm of
A. Cohn & Co., New York, has benin the
state during the week looking over the
the new crop with M. L. Carrier.
Mr.. N. P. Strause of Madison, state
manager of the American Cigar Co., was
visitor in Edgerton Tuesday. He was
accompanied by Mr.. w. 81. Willingham
of the leaf department in the New York
| Office
| Messrs. J. B. Dugas and Pierre Den
| mis-, representatives of the Agricultural
department of Canada, are in Edgerton
this week gathering information regard
ing the handling and curing of tobacco.
These gentlemen spent several weeks in
the growing districts OF the state last
spring getting pointers from progressive
growers regarding the culture and are
now watching the methods that prevail
during the harvest and cure of the crop
F. G. Greene, of the Reading, Pa, leaf
firm of j. L. & M. E. Greene, has remov-
ed his family to Philadelphia, and will
make his home here permanently. Mr..
Greene will continue to look after the
road interests of his fra, and will make
frequent trips to the headquarters at
Reading.-Philadelphia Tobacco World.
Alfred Ellickson of the Experiment
Station at Madison was in the village
last week and was the guest of E. P. Bill
hovde. Mr.. Ellickson was here in the
interest of the tobacco raising expert
ments conducted on the Blihovde farm
1t will be remembered that three acres
OF Mr.. Blihovde's farm were devoted
this summer to the culture OF tobacco.
There were six different fertilizers used
| on six patches of tobacco of a half acre
each. 1t will be impossible to tell the
exact quality of the tobacco until it is
cured, but it is believed to be first class,
Some of the crop was hail cut, and it is
thought that not enough of the fertil-
izer was used No doubt the expert
ments will prove of value and should be
continued next year. The crop has been
sold for 81 cents. -Westby Times.
Lowers the ColOrs of MilliOnaires.
Under the above heading the ST. Louis
Republic announces that FL. @. Taylor,
of Orfordville, has the best aged Jersey
bull at the Worlds Fair Cattle Show.
The article is as follows:
"Flying Fox's Foxhall, Thomas w.
Lawson's entry in the class for aged
bulls at the Worlds Fair Cattle Show,
yesterday could get no better than sixth |
place, and the nominations of George
Vanderbilt and the Laid estate, the
other millionaire competitors in the Jer-
sey events, were not in the money.
merry Maiden's Third Son, owned by
Fl. G. Taylor, of Orfordville, Wis, was
the animal that lowered the colors Of the |
heads of the millionaire herds.
"The winner is royalty bred and is
typical Jersey, both as an individual and |
from the standpoint of dairy breeding. |
He is direct descendent from Brown |
Bessie, that won first prize in the dairy
tests at the Columbian Exposition, and |
combines the strains of many purple |
blooded sires and dams. Mr.. Taylor val
ues him at $4,000"
Mr.. Taylor has created name for |
himself as breeder of Jersey cattle that
is bringing worldwide fame to him and
to the village in which he resides. He
has made untiring efforts to bring his
magnificent herd of Jerseys to the top
notch Of excellency and evidence points |
to the fact that he has been rewarded. !
The names Jersey and Orfordville may
become synonymous.