The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-20

The shipments out of storage do not
exceed 300cs aside from 25 car loads of
bundle leaf destined for Detroit, for the
week past from this market.
NEW YORK. April IA, 1906
There are no material changes in the
leaf situation with the exception of one
feature which is likely to react disas-
trously on the cigar industry The
high price of seed leaf seems to have led
or rather mislead some unscrupulous
dealers TO flood the market with sub
stitute in the shape of Kentucky "lugs"
assorted and packed in boxes instead of
hOgsheads like seed leaf. These Ken
lucky lugs are being palmed off on un-
| sophisticated manufacturers who are
still on the lookout for bargains as gen.
uine seed leaf. The bargain hunter who
falls into the pitfall of such unscrupu.
lous dealers is bound to pay for his bar
gain with his commercial existence; for
| any cigar made with Kentucky tobacco
| instead of cigar leaf means ruin for the
manufacturer. Some years ago then
rather promising cigar manufacturing
firm in this city, but of the bargain
hunter kind, was imposed upon with a
lot of 500 cases of Kentucky tobacco
which it bought as "Zimmers' in spite
of the marked difference in price-a diff
ference so marked that in honesty it
| should not have expected the real value
for it. But it was out for bargain and
that bargain killed it, for no sooner had
the cigars made out of the Kentucky to-
| bacco reached the firms customers than
| they were returned with maledictions
on the firms heads. for trying to sell
them such rubbish, and the firm, pros
| porous one at the time, was forced to 60
out of business. 1t could not even get
the satisfaction from the leaf firm that
had practiced that deception on them.
True enough, suit was brought for dam
ages, but the manufacturers lost it be-
cause they had failed to exact from the
leaf firm statement OF the invoice of
the character and type of the tobacco
| they had bought. Manufacturers, there
| fore, should be careful when having bar
| gains of seed leaf offered them now to
assure themselves of the genuineness of
the article by having it guaranteed on
| their invoice as the type they are buy
ing. The new Sumatra is taking we'll
It's price is only relatively high consider
|
| Sumatra that has been bought by our
Sumatra importing houses, particularly
our old, reliable houses that have built
up and are anxiously guarding their high
reputation for integrity and fair dealing,
is excellent, almost perfect in character,
style and taxture. Not for years has
such perfect leaf exposed to so little
fault-fnding made it's appearance in our
market.-Journal.
NEW YORK, April II, 1906.
The domestic market is devoid of feat
ures as far as old tobacco is concerned,
old stocks being NIL. In the new the
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin types have
been in demand with several transac-
tlons of note.
Sumatra. Some of the new is selling.
There were 108 bales sold in one lot this
week. But the trade is in general play
ing waiting game, hoping for lower
prices to develop The expectation of
lower prices is hardly likely to be real
lied. The next inscription is in Rotter-
dam, after which there will be break
of three weeks before another sale takes
place.
Havana Business locally is slack,
owing mainly to the high prices being
asked. The following is an extract from
a letter received yesterday from Havana:
| "None of our big buyers have as yet
taken bale of the Vueltas. I am sorry
to report that many of the best vegas in
Vuelta Abajo will taste more like straw
this year than anything else. Colors are
very bad. The size of the crop will be
much larger than was at first expected,
Mr.. Sleeper to the contrary notwith
standing. There promises to be large
proportion of light, himsy wrappers in
the Remedies crop, and some clear Ha-
vana manufacturers have their eyes
turned toward the western end of the
/ island this year" Leaf.
/ Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.
Some of the farmers have their tobac-
co beds sown, but the bulk of them have
not sown yet, and [ think it just as WE'LL
for on the 8th and again on the 10th the
ground was coveeed with snow. OF
course it did not last very long, but the
storm brought chill which lasted all
day. Not many have even put their
seed to sprout yet, but think they will
get their plants as early as though they
had it sprouted and sowD, for it is warm
weather that germilates seed quickly
instead or colo anG snow and DOCn.
Most of the growers have their frames
out from storage. and they will conclude
the work quickly wher the time comes.
A good many applied their fertilizers
last fall and only harrow in very little
this spring, trusting to the fertility of
their beds to carry along the plants to a
suitable size to receive dressing of fish
or other commercial fertilizer later in
the season.
Our correspondents report as follows:
Bradstreet, Mass: "Belden Brothers
{ have their tobacco beds sown. Most of
the beds in this vicinity need few days
more sun to get them in shape to SOW.