The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-01-04
New York, Dec. 26, 1906

Areport just made by the chief statis-
| tician of the department of agriculture
contains the best news for the domestic
| industry that has been heard for mapy
| days. Short crops, which have furnish
ed an amount of tobacco entirely made
quate for the needs of the domestic in
dustry, have been the burden Of the
story for so long that the announcement
of an increase of nearly 100000 p ,unds
| over the crop raised last year will be re-
! ceived with relief by the manufa ;Eurers
aud dealers.
The official report on acreage for this
year is 796,099, as compared with 1912
| for 1905. The yield per acre has risen
from 8156 pounds last year to 1872
pounds. Thus the production for this
year is returned at 682, $50 pounds,
or nearly 100000 pounds more than
the 633,O33,719 of last year. Combined
! with this increase in acreage and num-
ber of pounds per acre is an increase in
the price per pound from eight and
half cents to ten, making the total value
of this years crop $68, ,232, CAT, as COM
pared with S53,519,068 of last year, an
increase of 14,713579 or 28 per cent.
This is the price, of course, paid to the
grower by the packer. 1t will be noted
that nearly all the states share in the in
creased price. The most notable Of these
is Wisconsin, where in spite of decrease
of about 100000 pounds in production
the value of the crop is greater by near
ly 81, 100000, the price increasing from
ten cents to more than thirteen cents
per pound. Connecticut gets eighteen
instead of seventeen cents for her big
crop, which is a million and a half
pounds bigger than was last years. The
New York crop has increased million
and three-quarter pounds and from ten
to thirteen cents per pound. Pennsyl-
vania's output has gained three cents
per pound in price and nearly 100000
pounds in production. Some of the most
notable gains are in the wrapper-grow
ing districts of the south. The average
price of Georgia tobacco is given at
thirty cents instead of seventeen last
year. This is due to the increase in the
growth of Sumatra in that state. The
value of the tobacco crop of that state
increased in the one year from S18l,71
to S607, 800. The Florida crop is rated
at thirty five cents per pound instead of
eighteen, which was the price a year
ago. The Florida crop jumped in pro-
duction from 3, ,192,600 pounds to 4,725,-
GOO. In Georgia and Florida the value
of the crop jumped 200 per cent. in the
one year. The total value of the Ohio
crop has nearly doubled, and the in
crease in production was nearly 30 per
cent. In fact, the articles and tables
appended thereto are we'll worth study.
They are pregnant with significance, and
the manufacturer or dealer who plans
his next years work without fortifying
himself against the conditions Indicated
from the growth of an enormous crop
which has been sold at such figures, is
courting trouble. In ordinary times the
production of crop OF such proportions
would invariably be followed .byya de-
preston in price. The fact of the almost
universal increase in price accompany
ing such an enormous increase in pro-
duction is almost unique; and it is Ger
tainly remarkable attestation to the
great prosperity that the cigar and to
bacco trade is now experiencing. N. 7,
Leaf.