The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-06
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.
The young plants on many OF the early
sown beds have begun to show; but the
spring has been SO cold and backward |
that the plant beds in general are nearly |
two weeks behind the usual season.
Having a late start the grower must
now embrace every opportunity to push
along the growth of the young plants
and if possible recover the delays that
the planting season may be started near
the usual dates. In the absence OF rains
the beds should be frequently watered
and possibly liquid fertilizer applied at
intervals. After the plants are well up
a steady growth should be maintained.
Ordinarily Wisconsin growers have no
trouble in securing plants of proper size
for transplanting at the commencement
of the usual transplanting season. Un-
der good weather conditions the beds
come forward very rapidly, but as pre-
caution against less favorable circum-
stances the grower can well afford to
keep close watch of the beds the next
few weeks, and especially see that they
are supplied with sufficient moisture. A
| little extra care now may mean good
deal later on when the planting season is
at hand and the beds not ready for
Itransplanting.
! The proposition of Sutter Bros, the
Chicago leaf firm. for settlement with
"a long list Of creditors at % cents on the
dollar has been accepted and the COM
position offer confirmed by the courts.
The first payment is now being made
and the frm will resume business at the
| old place On Lake street.
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/ A portion of the state appropriation
for experimental work will be expended
lin Vernon county this year. Three acres
on the farm of E. P. Blihov6e have been
| chosen by the Agricultural Experiment
Station as the best point in Vernon
to experiment in the raising of tobacco.
lpieces of one-half acre each, and six diff
ferent fertilizers will be useo in the. ex-
lperiments. Alfred Ellexson of the Ex-
iperiment station st Madison was in the
village this week and made arrange
nlents with Mr.. Blihovde for the use of
part of his excellent farm land. The
seed and fertilizer will be sent from the
Experiment Station and the results
should be closely watched by our farm
lets in this section. -Westby Times.
~
The tobacco display at the st. Louis
Exposition will be one of the important
exhibits that will make the Palace of
Agriculture a bee hive of wonderment
and industry. Entirely under the roof
|of this mighty palace, the largest of the
Exposition buildings, covering an area
of 19 acres, the special tobacco exhibit
will cover space 300 feet long and 80
feet wide. Aisles 20 feet wide on each
tside of the paraiielogram will render the
|great industrial picture effectual when
Iseen from any point. Here again the
theory OF making the Exposition one of
methods, and not alone one of finished
products, will prevail. Tobacco will be
tshown in it's every form. There will be
the seed beds with young plants just
lpeeping above-the soil; full grown plants
growing in miniature fields; a curing
barn with it's appliances in operation, an
exhibit of all the tools, machinery and
Appliances used in the culture of the
weed: warehouses showing the processes
of handling and asserting the leaf tobac-
co; factories where plug tobacco is man
ufactured; other factories crowded with
pretty girls. selected from the cigarette
Factories because of their dexterity,
turning out before the eyes of visitors
thousands of cigarettes; still other fac
itories where granular and plug-cut
smoking tobaccos, fine cuts and snuffs
are made. In the same exhibit will be
also two distinct cigar factories. One is
to be given over to force. of Cubans
who will make strictly Havana cigars
from strictly Havana tobacco, while
across the aisle will be domestic cigar
factory with a large force turning out all
kinds of domestic cigars, cheroots and
stogies. Arrangements are pending
whereby the revenue laws will be so
complied with that visitor may observe
| the cigars made and buy them over the
counter while he waits.
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| The first session of the Fifth.eighth
congress which closed on Thursday was
anything but fruitful for the trade inter
ests. says the y. S. Tobacco Journal. In
it's extra session in November last, it
passed the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty
| without the change of dot in justice to
the universal demand for uniform rate,
and a few weeks ago it strangled the
Tawney bill in the Ways and Means
Committee. These were the two meas
| ures which had stirred up the widest
| agitation and deepest interest in the
trade, but as usual Congress did not take
! the least account of the protests, memo
| rials or remonstrances of the trade. It
is most humiliating to be compelled to
acknowledge that the trade has rot the
least influence with congress, not to re-
ceiye any favors, but receive plain, every
day justice. All the blame for this uu-
| fortunate lack of influence cannot be put
| on the shoulders of one party, inasmuch
as both parties treat the trades inter