The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-26
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Nothing has developed in the market
conditions to change the conclusions ex-
pressed in these columns some weeks
ago-that this is the season for putting
out full acreage of tobacco. The op-
portunity for cigar leaf growers to take
advantage of the situation has not been
SO favorable for a series of years. A
shortage of leaf available for domestic
manufacturing has not been so imminent
for long time past. Wisconsin growers
have the soil, the sheds, the experience,
and need only the inclination to reach
out and grasp the situation. There will
be plants sufficient to meet almost any
demands of an increased acreage and it
is not yet too late to lay out the fields to
meet it. Wisconsin needs big, bumper
crop this year, and the writer desires
once more to urge the farmers to put
forth an extra effort to supply what the
market most stands ready fora good
binder crop. 1t is due about 1905.
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The condition of the domestic cigar
manufacturer is anything but pleasant
to contemplate. Or every hand he sees
the price of all leaf that enters into his
cigars steadily advancing in price. If it
is an imported wrapper that he uses he
can make up his mind that his cigars
will soon cost him from ST. to So more
per thousand than heretofore. Domes-
tic filters and binders are also going up
in price so there is little chance to even
up the cost at this end. There seems to
be no escaping the conclusion that man
ufacturers must raise the price of their
cigars if they remain in business.
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AS the time for setting out tobacco
plants will soon be here, j B. Stewart,
tobacco grower of Connecticut, says that
it willspay all who are bothered with cut
worms, and wish to avoid trouble from
this pest, to remember that one table
spoonful of the spirits of turpentine to
each barrel of water used in setting out
the plants will prevent the insect from
cutting off the plant. AS this is very
simple and cheap remedy, it would be
we'll to test it's merits. Western Tobac-
co Journal
8. 4. meeting of the White Burley To-
bacco Growers was held at Cincinnati
last week for the purpose of organizing
for the coming year with a view to
financing the new tobacco deal similar
to the one which failed last year. About
twenty-fiv growers we're present. Mr..
Charles F. Moore, special agent of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
was also in attendance, listened to all
the discussions and made copious notes.
His presence has led to the belief among
the growers that the government will go
to the tobacco farmers themselves for
information regarding the workings of
the Tobacco Trust. In the formal dis
cussion which took place, various plans
to finance and control the crop were
brought forward. The representatives
from the Carroll county section favored
cooperative buying and selling through
agents appointed for that purpose, advo-
Gates of this plan claiming it would elm
mate the packer and shipper, or mid
dleman." Another plan suggested was
the establishment of district warehouses
throughout the hurley belt, which would
receive the tobacco from the planters
and issue stock certificates therefor on
the basis of S5 per 100 pounds, sampling
and warehouse charges to be lien on
the tobacco when sold, but leaving it
RI hn roIov far fN col hoy
he desired
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The census of the Philippine Islands,
taken under the direction of the Philip
pine Commission in the year 1908, has
just been published in four volumes by
the Bureau of the Census. The fourth
volume contains the agricultural social
and industrial statistics of the Islands,
and from the information therein con-
tained a resume of some of the principal
features of agriculture. Concerning the
production of tobacco the following in
formation is given: The tobacco crop of
1902 was produced from 77,623 acres and
amounted to 81 1885, ,6o3 pounds. In point
of commercial Importance, tobacco is the
third agricultural product of the Islands.
The plant was originally introduced into
the Philippines from Mexico by Spanish
missionaries in the latter part of the six
teenth century, shortly after the estab-
lishment of Spanish sovereignty. Re-
Gently certain varieties are supposed to
have been introduced from the United
States. Formerly the production and
sale of this article was made state mo-
nopoly in the island of Luzon. This
monopoly was terminated December 81,
1882. With the Inauguration of freedom
of production and sale. the tobacco in
dustry took on a new impetus, and since
1882 the annual shipments of both leaf
and manufactured tobacco have consid-
erably exceeded those of the monopoly
period; the number of cigar factories
has increased, as well as the number of
persons employed in tobacco production
and manufacture.
UNDER a new law Illinois, during the
next two years. will spend $4,000 build