The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-02-09
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| and think that never before was crop
ever bought up so closely at this time OF
! year nor was there ever season when so
| large an amount was bought to be han.
died in the bundle, they would recognize
how futile it is to expect packers to re-
ceive their purchases all at once. While
| it is true many of the contracts call for
| delivery "about January" at the time of
sale it was expected that warehouse
handling might be commenced before
| the holidays and the business we'll under
way before January But the lack of
| casing weather put the work month
behind and nearly the entire crop was
ready to deliver during January. 1t has
! been utterly impossible for the packers
to receive SO large an amount of tobacco
except by spreading the delivery over
several weeks, as it has always been the
'custom IN this state. The growers should
reason out these things and cultivate
| patience, and all will be taken and re-
ceived at as early date as other years.
| It i'll becomes farmer to notify the pur
chaser that if his tobacco is not received
before certain date that his crop will
be sold to other parties, unless he is
courting lawsuit. Such threats can
not hurry the delivery of the crop much
faster than it is now being done.
| ***
One of our Wisconsin leaf dealers is
telling his friends how he turned trick
on the Buckeyes recently. Finding the
binder supply getting low, he thought
| he would look over the Ohio leaf mar
kets to see if anything could be found
| that would answer the needs of his GUS
toners. He ran across lot of Zimmers
| which could be bought around 121a cts.
and though the price seemed high
thought he would take an option on it
and securing 100 samples started out
to visit his customers in that state. He
| found 40 trouble to dispose of the entire
| lot at nice profit and while moving
about came upon another lot of Wiscon-
si1abiaders for which the holder wanted
| Is cents. This was such snap that he
closed at once and before leaving the
state sold every box at 3 per pound
margin. Thus inside of ten days the
Wisconsin dealer had sold over 1000
boxes right under the noses of the Ohio
dealers and cleaned up profit enough SO
he can afford to take vacation trip.
| We wonder if the Ohio dealers were
really awake to the conditions of the ci-
gar leaf market to let rank outsider
come in and carry away such easy money.
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Some information concerning what the
domestic tobacco grower would be up
against in the passage of the Philippine
tariff reduction bill was given by Presi-
dent Blur of the Tobacco Dealers asso-
citation before the Senate committee at
the recent hearing: "The Philippines
today produce from fifty to sixty million
pounds of tobacco, about 2OO,0U0,OOO ci-
gars and 9,O00,0O0,000 cigarettes. Of this
quantity they export about SOOOOO00 ci-
gars and about 100000 pounds of to-
| OdCCO,
ly constant for the past twenty years.
There are 77,O00 acres on which tobacco
is grown now. In Japan, on somewhat
smaller acreage, there is an annual pro-
duction of 95,000000 pounds. The cigar
leaf tobacco area of the United States is
about 10000 acres, producing 100000
900 pounds of cigar leaf tobacco. What
we believe possible in the Philippines is
not alone an increase in the yield per
acre by better method of cultivation,
but an enormous increase also in the
land planted to tobacco The tobacco
lands of the Philippines are rich, and
yield their crop without the aid of fer
tilizer In quality the tobacco produced
is of higher class than that of Porto
Rico or Mexico, each of which are in
| their turn higher grade products than
are grown in our filler producing states
of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
| Wisconsin. Within the past week sam
pies of Philippine tobacco have been
| submitted to various houses in our
! trade which can be sold profitably ready
for market in Manila at seven cents
| pound American money. and which We
| tobacco men who have tested it pro
nounce it superior to any known filler
| tobacco except the Cuban. Plans are
now on foot to form a company among
us to grow this type of tobacco in the
Philippines should the present bill go
through. That it is feasible for corpora
| tions to grow tobacco proftably can be
seen from the prosperity of the home
companies who are raising shade-grown
leaf successfully in Georgia and Florida.
Dutch companies have great experience
in the raising of wrapper tobacco, and it
is absolutely certain that with the tariff
barriers against the Philippines remov-
ed they will locate in these islands and
grow wrapper tobacco for the United
States We import 100000 pounds of
| Sumatra tobacco annually at the rate of
duty of s1.s5 per pound, It would take
only the product of 5000 acres to pro-
duce this amount of wrapper tobacco.
| If free trade with the Philippine Islands
will not cause great injury to the pro
duction of American cigar leaf tobaccb
and of American cigars, then nothing is
true that has been taught US as to the
/ danger to home industries from foreign
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