Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-06-20
IN THE TOBACCO WORLD.
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What is Going on in Vernop Coanty and
Elsewhere in State and County

Prospects are bright for ptodGollvs
| and profitable tobacco crop the present
season. Locally speaking, thsr5 l. aHuBa
| dant reason for the prediction iL4e V-r.
| non county aud Wisconsin will slsts. ia
the large rewards arising from thj- 1jeh
money crop. Al this wIillul "a ~ Il
| per cent of the acreage il ia ne def-,
set and doing well TleIe ha- ta=a. ii.
account Of continued rains ana oagi
weather, some damage and loss Of plants
caused by rotting. Because Of tbs tGr. o
has been a scarcity of good healthy
plants. Bat there ia good epcoUJa gs-
ment for growers. The ecr ia Yer,
non county will not be fa' ,m that
harvested last season. II thing it
win be slightly increased are told
that a few crops have alre, .. )een con-
tracted, but this Is douhtle z he excer-
tion.
Speaking of the general 3 iitions the
Edgerton Tobacco Report z 3ys "Fhe
planting of the tobacco cI s progress.
ing in all the growing Sc 2 as but I'M
der conditions that are z favorable
as q week ago this writ The week
has been cold and dryw : eraperatnfe
nights that barely esca % the freezing
ed to bold back the growth Of the plant
beds and under ordinary circumstances
would have been favorable to the newly
planted fields, but the winds have dried
ont the soil 80 rapidly thai growers are
not securing as good stand Of plants
as they would like, Rain is now needed
badly in the southern growing eection
to put the planting on q satisfactory BE-
sis
Generally the acreage devoted 10 cigar
leaf tobacco throughout the United
States this year shows some increase oT- |
er last season. The main incentive TO
encourage farmers in more extensive
production is the satisfactory manner in
which the last crop was cleaned mp by
buyers. Not for years have stocks Of
cigar leaf tobacoc in growers hands
bsen reduced TO such cleager proper
tions as they are at present. Averaging
the country through, considerably less
than five per cent of the 1905 crop re.
mains in producers handa and it is siggs
niicant that in many sections old to1ac.
co of eli descriptions is absolutely sold
out. With transplanting still in pro-
gress throughout most of the leading ci.
gar leaf tobacco states, it is not possible
at this time to give definite figures re-
garding the increase in acreage. The
enlargement is most pronounced in New
York and Pennsylvania; TO a somewhat
lesser degree in Wisconsin, the New
England states and Ohio Operations In
Georgia and Florida this year are on a
somewhat greater scale than lsstseason.
Ground has been broken at Lodi for
one of the largest tobacco warehouses
yet erected in. this state, which has been
leased TO the United Cigar Manufacture
ers 60. for term of years. The plans
call for modern storshouse in every
particular, one that is entitled to the
minimum insurance rates and finished !
in the best of style. The. dimensions are |
90 feet wide by 252 feet long, and walls
rs feet high above the foundations. The
capacity will be about II, 600 cases Of to. /
baccos This storage part of the vare-
hons will be 52x252 feet, divided into
three compartments of equal size, viz,
50xS4 feet and separated by solid brick
walls extending from the foundation upI
through and above the roof Thesel
walls will be provided with iron doors,
making it posiibile FOR the contents of
anyone of thele rooms 10 burn without
destroying the others The sorting roam
will be 40x252 feet in size.