Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-08-28
TOBACCO HARVEST is NEAR.
A Few Crops Have Been SheddedS- -tand
is Very Uneven.

A Few Crops Have Been SheddedS- -tand
is Very Uneven.
If the same conditions prevailed now
as they did at this time last year, to-
bacco growers would be busily engaged
harvesting their crops AS it is only
here and there has any tobacco been
shielded. During the remainder of the
week small acreage of the weed may
be housed, but it will be well into next
week before the harvest becomes quite
general. A good per cent. of the crop
is at least three weeks behind and there
is small chance for it to escape the
frosts which will doubtless be with us
before long.
A Madison dispatch of recent date
says that prospects for the 1907 tobacco
crop are very poor throughout southern
Wisconsin and it is estimated in Dane
county that the loss to growers in that
county alone will be fully So, 900, 600.
This appears to be large sum, but the
loss will not be felt so keenly as the
, outsider would suppose, because the
accumulations of previous years, when
bumper crops and high prices were the
rule, will go far toward making the
loss fall more easily upon the farmers
of that section. Only about one-ffth
of the present crop in that county is in
the condition it should be at this time
of the year.
The tobacco growers of Wisconsin
are not alone in their disappointment
over the unsatisfactory condition of
A ,ts,6 / T.,
Connecticut, states that many of the
farmers of Connecticut are cutting and
stringing immature plants as a last re-
sort to realize something from their
tobacco acreage. The plants in the
Eastern fields are small and the leaf
has been injured by unfavorable turns
in the weather. Those who are fortu-
nate enough to syHre fair crops of
tobacco will pro ably realize good
prices for them.
The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter COM
ments on the general tobacco outlook
in the country, and Wisconsin in per-
ticular. 1t says: Tremendously heavy
rains have followed the breaking of the
drought that have put the soil beyond
any further need of moisture to COM
plete the making of the present tobacco
crop. What is needed now is warm
weather-three or four weeks of it if
anything like fair percentage of the
crop ever reaches the shed. Even if
favored with late fall the danger
most to be feared is from frosts which
usually appear any time after the mid
die of September. The growers will be
extremely lucky if the harvest is ever
started by September 1st, which will
bring the securing of the crop well into
frosts. The fate, therefore, of at
least 80 per cent. of the crop will be
determined by the weather of the com
ing two weeks. A dealer who had rid
den over quite large portion of the
growing sections estimates the present
condition about as follows: 25 per cent.
looking good; 25 per cent just fair, and
80 per cent. poor. Measured by this
standard the prospects do not appear
over encouraging.
Band concert, Friday night at s
O'Clock.
Rev. H. G. Goodsell spent Tuesday
in La Crosse.
Miss Ona Griffin is visiting relatives
at La Fargo.
AT Rogers: Ladies short black
silk gloves, Soc.
Jeweler JOS Boehrer is spending a
week in Chicago.
Carload of bridge planks just re-
ceived at Thayer's.
Tobacco lath ana -hingles at reason
able prices at Thayer's.
Miss Anna Swiggum is clerking in
the Fair Saving Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. X. Nuzum Sun
dayed in Soldiers Grove.
Mrs. c. M. Butt entertained at a
dinner, Tuesday evening.
w. d. Dyson has had the front of
his business block painted.
Plenty of bridge plank and cement
at the Chaseburg lumber yard.
Miss Mabel Millie of Minneapolis,
is the guest of Geneveive Harris.
Children's school dresses, the so
and 60c kind, for 39c at Rogers.
Mrs. r. w. Rogerson has as her
guest Miss Jessie Craigo of Jancsyille.
Miss Dora Drowodsky of Tomah,
visited Miss Tida Natwick, last week.
The Congregational Sunday school
held their picnic at CAM Tate, today.
Miss Agnes Bowen of Madison, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jesse
Sarles.
Miss Alma Peterson Of Soldiers
Grove, spent a few days here with
friends.
When you need anything in cio,h-
ing and shoes, don't forget Stoll &
Groves.
Real estate is the basis Of all value.
See the Vernon County Land Co. for
bargains.