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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
New York.
NEW YORK. Oct. -. 1907.

The sale of large block of 1906 Wis.
consin has given some animation to the
leaf market this week. The exact price
at which the goods were sold could not
be ascertained, but it has been intimated
that the price was about the same as
last year. about the same as last year"
means in the first place shading down
from last years price, and considering
that much larger price was paid to the
farmer for last years crop than for the
1905 and that the damage in it was also
proportionately much larger. it means
secondly that if there was profit in it,
it was very much like Pyrrhus victory.
While there was comfortable margin
OF profit for the packer in the 20 and ~
cents price of the 1905 Wisconsin, the
same price for 1906 would spell loss for
selected and clean grades. Neverthe
less, the sale was greeted with cheerful
expectations as it was taken to signify
"break in the ice" concerning the new
Wisconsin. The market at large is kept
up otherwise only by a routine business.
Yesterday the last of this years Suma
ira Inscriptions took place at Amster-
dam. Less fault seems to have been
found with the results of this years in
scriptions than with those of any of the
previous years. The Sumatra offered
seems to have been of the requisite yield,
color and quality suitable for the needs
of the American cigar industry, and if
the price at the first few inscriptions
overtopped the scale, it receded some
what in the subsequent subscriptions so
as to equalize the level. The American
requirements have almost reached the
limit of selections under the exorbitant
rate of duty and there is no danger
therefore, of the American market be-
coming overstocked with Sumatra.
Hence, trading in Sumatra continues
steadily and satisfactorily. In the 6a
vana market the lack of sufficient sup
ply from the new crops is making itself
more perceptible from week to week.
There is particularly missing an efficient
supply of quality tobaccos and the Cos
sips in the trade have it that substitutes
are being freely resorted to again to
make up for this deficiency. If so, both
the clear and Seed Havana industry is
likely to suffer from such Interpolation.
journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGRRToN, WIS.,, Oct. %, l9(


The pleasant Indian summer weather
which has prevailed during the week
has been conducive to the curing of the
tobacco crop, the later harvested portion
OF which still yet needs considerable
warm weather to carry it beyond the
dangers of freezing in the sheds. There
is general complaint that the tobacco
is curing slowly this season, the absence
of the usual warm days during the early
fall months being mainly the reason for
it.
There is absolutely nothing being done
toward buying the crop or indications
that the movement will be started soon.
Holders of old goods derive some en-
couragement from the report coming
from New York that large block of the
Blur & Bekkedal packing of '06 has
been disposed of at very fair figures.
The transaction is important in that it
helps establish market price, thus far
not determined.
Trade among local packers is still con-
fined to small lots to meet manufactur-
ers' pressing needs.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 500 cases from this market to all
points for the week past.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
Lancaster.
LANCASTER, Pa, Oct. Is, 1907.

Reports from the county show that the
new crop of tobacco is curing satisfac-
torlly, and the growers do not have any
hesitancy in declaring they have first
rate crop of filler goods, what the trade
wants badly. Lancaster county, from
this crop, will be able to supply in abun-
dance what was in such demand last
year The leaves were then so long that
much of the goods were used for bind
ers. This year the leaves ARE shorter
and of more body. There will be little
for binder purposes. AS there nave been
no sales, no idea can be formed as to
prices. There will probably be no sales
until the tobacco is stripped, and until
then the question of prices will be in
abeyance, but the growers say they mean
to have good prices. The packers will
give what the market warrants, but
there will be lack of last years gilt
edged prices.
The past week witnessed a fairly brisk
market for 1906 goods, and good deal
of these goods was sold. Much more
could have been disposed of, but the
local packers refused to take what out
of town buyers offered. They were sat
isfed to sell in small lots direct to the
manufacturers, at prices around q cents
a pound.
The cigar business last week braced
up cons derably, and manufacturers ex-
pect brisk early winter trade. New
Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

October is now we'll started and the
tobacco is doing fairly we'll; that is the
late cut, but it needs to hurry to get
cured down. 1t will call for lot of
warm weather to bring it through to
good cured condition. / am very much
afraid that when it is stripped the fat
stems will be found in abundance, and it
would not be improbable to expect quite
lot of frozen leaves, for | think some
OF the late cut was just little green
when it was cut, by the manner it has
begun to cure or dry down. Not much
stripping has yet been done.
Not much is being said in regard to-
the selling of the new crop, and very lit
tie riding is being done by the buyers, at
least in this locality; last week / heard
of two or three looking around to make
sure that the quality has not changed
since they last saw the crops. Every
crop OF prominence in the valley has
been spotted you may be sure, and the
buyers are kept we'll informed of the
conditions of all the earliest and best
crops, SO when the buyer starts out he
will know just where to stop, and being
posted on the crop he is probably posted
also as to the price that will be placed
on the goods.-Cultivato
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
Fixing the Market Price of Tobacco.

Under the mislead of the Populistic
Society OF Equity meeting of several
hundred tobacco growers at Madison,
Wis, the other day, have taken the most
foolish and mischievous step they possi-
bly, could to endanger the very interests
they had in mind to boost up by it. For
they undertook to fix an upset price for
their 1907 Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin tobacco grower ought
to know better than to permit himself
to be led into such temptations. He
ought to know that he profits by nothing
more than by free competition, that he
always got the value of his crop accord
ing to prevalent circumstances and mar
ket conditions and that "fixed" market
price, being negation of the immutable
economic law of demand and supply, is
an utter impossibility.
Time was, and not so very long ago,
when the Wisconsin farmer received
and 6 c for his tobacco and he was salts
fed, Then larger demand for his to-
bacco sprang up with the increased pro-
duction of our cigar industry and the
price of his tobacco went up In the nat
ural course of events without force or
compulsion or fixing" by anybody ex-
cept by the natural law of demand and
supply. The boom in the leaf market
here last year spurned some packers into
the reckless gambling venture of con-
tracing the 1906 crop in the fields for
15c and 16c. Evidently the sober sense
of the farmer has been upset by this ex.
traordinary adventure of "high finan-
ciering" the Wisconsin tobacco crop last
year. But this does not excuse him
from facing soberly again the facts. He
may laugh and hug himself at the extra
windfall that came to him last ear from
the venturesome exploitation of the leaf
gamblers sin futures But he cannot
expect it's repetition every year. Ger
tainly not this year. For the condition
of the leaf market nor of the cigar in
dustry would justify it.
So far the packers have shown not the
least eagerness to invest in the l9O! crop.
And it might be months before they will
be ready to do 80 if they consult their
own true interests. And when the time
comes to buy the crop the price will be
fixed" not by the farmer, ,sbut by the re-
quirements of the trade. If conditions
should shape for the better, that is for
steadler outlook, farmers might get their
price, not because they fixed" it, out
because the demand should warrant it.
But if conditions should not improve,
the farmer will have to take for his crop
what he can get for it or soak it away.
And no Society of Equity will change
one iota in this alternative. = U. >. To-
bacco Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES


The 1907 cigar leaf tobacco crop now
harvested and under cover does not ex-
hibit as heavy tonnage as that of last
year. The commercial crop aggregates
166, 100000 pounds, shrinkage of 6 per
cent from 1906. but an increase of S,CO0,-
GOO pounds over the yield two years ago.
A careful compilation of reports from
Orange Judd Farmer correspondents
throughout chief producing sections, e,
Wisconsin Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
England, New York, Florida, Geor-
gia and Texas, indicates an available
supply of 476, 100 cases Of $50 pounds
each from the 1907 crop.
The situation this year may be sum-
med up terseiy in that time honored
maxim: MAN proposes and God dis
poses." Last spring, as this journal
pointed out, plans were made through
out New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
for a liberal extension in the acreage. In
many instances these were lived up to,
as indicated by the total of Ia 800 acres
harvested, against l42,3OO cnt in 1906.
However, from the outset the season
worked against growers. The spring
was abnormally late, so much SO, in fact,
that hundreds OF farmers became fearful
of tobacco having time to ripen before
frost, and at the last minute many put in
sugar beets, field beans and grain crops,
where they had planned to devote the
land to tobacco.
Generally the crop secured poor
start in the big producing states. Hail
played havoc in the principal broadleaf
district OF Connecticut, necessitating
much replanting at later date than
uac dooro1 cafo nrv uaathnr a1OnO in
July and early August stunted the
growth of tobacco seriously in Pennsyl-
vania, New York. New England and
Ohio, and as result much OF the early
cut leaf showed yield per acre below
the average. However, in late August
ard September rains came and revived
the parched plants. giving an excellent
growth to late cut tobacco. Neverthe-
less, this was not sufficient to bring up
the average weight, and as result the
aggregate yield for the commercial crop
is below last year, as shown by figures in
accompanying tables.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25
New YORK, Oct. 16, 1907.

There has been general demand this
week for all kinds of domestic tobacco,
and a number of sales of Pennsylvania
BIS, Wisconsin BIS and New York State
Flats have been made. Julius Marqusee
sold 1900 cases of 1906 Wisconsin, $500
of which went to Traiser & Co. of Bos
ton. There seems to he strong de-
mand for Gebhardt and thinner Spanish
just now.
Sumatra. A constant business is be-
ing done in Sumatra, and Withdrawals
from bond during the past week have
been very heavy. Very little interest is
being manifested in the fall inscriptions.
Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25

On account of the decline in the pro-
duction of distilled spirits in the south,
the commissioner of internal revenue
has decided to have consolidated num-
her of revenue districts. 1t may be said
that these consultations will not de-
prive the trade of any conveniences or
facilities that it now enjoys. The pro-
hibition wave that is sweeping over the
south is responsible for the decline in
the manufacture of spirits mentioned.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25

AS result of the late labor Difficult
ties in Havana and the disastrous effects
of the long and bitter strike there it is
said that several of the larger Cuban
cigar factories are seeking locations in
the United States along the Florida
coast Tampa and Key West are likely
to profit thereby.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-10-25

The presidents hunger for bear meat
is apparently satisfied for the present, as
it is reported that he shot three bears,
six deer, one turkey, one possum, twelve
squirrels and wildcat-and ate them
all but the bob. When he gets back to
Washington he ought to be in good
fighting trim, ready for any kind of
trust busting
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
sentiment In tho Msddlna.

Very few persons have the cour-
age 10 be- married quietly, without
fuss or expense. Men have some
times gone through the ceremony
and left their wives at the church
door, But in such eases the mar
rage was one Of compulsion or
state necessity and in nowise af-
fected the general custom. The old
fashion of the posy ring, given on
the wedding day, was pretty, and
these rings, with their quaint con-
ccits and aiIectionate notices. are
now eagerly sought after as curiosi-
ties, I'm these prosaic times lovers
no longer share broken coins or
the halves of a lockct or give min
natures 10 wear around the neck, as
even George w, that heartlcss and
selfish monarch, did, being buried
with the picture Of Mrs. Fitz-lIer-
bert hanging on his breast. Little
items of sentiment are gradually
disappearing, but not the fine
clothes, the parade, the %eAtrava-
gance, the crowds and the cham
pagne.-lnndon Queen.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04

"Tho sexton Of n quaint old
Maryland church." said a clergy
man, Showed me through the cool,
dim building one warm afternoon
and us We we're departing pointed
TO the Bible on the lecturn and
smiled.
"a strange thing happened last
Sunday in connection with that BIZ
ble,' he said. We had n strange
minister preaching here, and when
he opened the book he came upon
a notice and read 1t out with all
due solemnity. II was a request for
the congregation's sympathy and
prayers for John Q. Griggs, who
had been deeply afflicted by the
loss Of his wife
"The sexton paused and chuckled
softly.
"'You see, sir he said, our
regular minister has been using
that paper as a bookmarker more
than a year, and John Q. Griggs, in
a natty gray suit, sat in u front pew
with the new wife he had taken just
the week before"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
SOLVED IN SLUMBER.
A Problem That Was Worked Out and
Written During Sleep.

Many persons have written while
wrapped in slumber. Coleridge
writing the poem of "Kubla Khan"
in his sleep is a classic instance, but
there are numerous others. Here is
one which DR.. Carpenter mentions
in his book on mental Physiology"
A professor at Amsterdam had
been given by a banking house of
that city a question to solve, involv-
ing a long and difficult calculation.
Several times he tried to obtain the
solution, but each time he made
some mistake. At last, all wearied
out, he gave the problem to some
of his students, telling them that
IL possible he would like the answer
in three DAYS. One of them, eager
to get into his teachers good graces,
took it home and worked on it for
three successive nights in vain.
"At last | bent myself yer my
figures for a third evening. 1t was
winter, and | calculated till half
past / in the morning, all TO no pur-
pose. The product was erroneous.
Low at heart, | threw down my PEN
ell, which already by that time had
beciphered three states. ! hesitat-
ed whether | would toll through the
night, Us | knew that the professor
wanted an answer the very same
morning. But, 10! my candle was
already burning in the socket, and
the persons with whom | lived had
gone to rest. Then | also went TO
bed, my head filled with ciphers,
and, tired in mind, / fell asleep. In
the morning ! awoke just early
enough to dress and prepare myself
to go to the lecture, vexed 1T
heart at not having been able TO
solve the question and ut having TO
disappoint my teacher.
"But. oh, wonderl AS | approach
my writing table / find on it a paper
with figures in my own hand and
Uhink Of my astonishmentD the
whole problem on IL solved quite
Alright and without a single blundcr.
| wanted to ask my hostess whether
any one had been in my room, but
was stopped by my own handwrit-
ing. Thus | must have calculated
the problem in my sleep and in the
dark TO boot. And, what was most
remarkable, the computation was 80
succinct that what ! saw before me
on . single folio sheet had required
three slatcfuls, closely b%eciphcrcd
on both sides. during my waking
state. Professor Won Swinden was
amazed ut the event and declared
to me that while calculating the
problem himself he had never once
thought of u solution so simple and
concise.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
promnt Action Neeessary.

as this Lawyer Shnrplcyy" asked
the caller, who appeared with n big
lump on his jaw. The man In tho
swivel chair admitted that he was
Mr.. Sharplcy and also that he saw
the lump.
"lcs, II is quite noticeable" said
the caller, with n cheerful smile. II
got il n couple of days ago while |
was stepping on q street ear. Tho
motormun started too soon. and no
made me hit my jaw against the
side Of the ear ! thought ut first
that IL had broken the bone, but il
hadn't quite. IL hurt mo awfuily,
though, and | want you TO bring
suit against the company for dam
ages"
81 am very busy just now" said
the lawyer, but ! can take IL up
for YOU in the course Of three or
four DAYS"
"That won't do at ALL"
"Why noty"
because" answered the caller
hesitatingly, "thnt might DO too
late, The lump is getting smaller
every day"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
A Castle In Ireland,

The name Of castle for a country
house is preserved in Ireland, rath-
er curiously, for Ireland has not the
yestiges OF French customs so no
tieeable in Scotland. The dullest
little villa, so it be solitary in an
Irish country place, bears that
name, and the smile of the Saxon
when he arrives and sees the castle
is cheap and unscholarly, Where
the Celt-the female Celt, that is
does earn and deserve that slight
sign of derision is in her practice
with her visiting cards intended for
London use. The word castle there
for a second and country address
does seem TO suggest Manifestations,
if not sieges aud sally ports.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
THE TRIAL BALANCE.
A Manthiy Test Of the Correctness Of
the Bookkesper's Work.

Ask a bookkeeper what his "black
beast" is, and he will tell you the
monthly trial balance. Some of you
know what that is, Of course, but
the majority of you perhaps do not.
Let us explain briefly. In double
entry bookkeeping, the only kind
that deserves the name of book
keeping, every debit must have its
tredit-that is to say, every item
that is carried to the debit Of one
account must be carried to the cred
II Of another.
Say, for example,, you buy a bill
Of goods from a merchant. He en-
tiers the amount to your debit on
his books and at the same time
credits an account called "merchan-
disc" this account being debited
with oil the goods brought into the
stock and credited with all the
goods sold from it. When you pay
the bill you are credited with the
amount, and an account called
cash" is debited, because it re-
ceives the money.
This will explain to the uninitiat-
ed the meaning Of the term double
entry" and il will also explain why,
after the entries have all been AR
ried to the ledger and balances have
been struck thereon, the debts end
the credits will agree il the books
have been correctly kept. To test
the correctness Of his work the
tookkeeper takes off every month
a trial balance, which consists sim
ply of the debit balances in one
column and the credit balances in
another. II they foot up the same
the work has been correctly done.
n they vary he must look for and
find the error or errors before the
next months business Is entered on
the ledger.
You can readily understand
therefore why the trial balance Is
the bookkeeper's "black beast" We
have known cases in which trifing
errors have eluded the most careful
search for several days and nights
and even for weeks, torturing the
soul Of the bookkeeper almost past
endurance. But he has to stand It.,
for the error must be found.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
To Firsproof Cloth.

The following is the process by
which to ireproof cloth; Dissolve
by gentle heat forty parts boric
acid, thirty parts aluminium sui
phate, seventeen parts gum traga-
canth, nine parts potassium s~ilicate
in $50 parts of water, Then make
another solution Of the following;
Thirty parts sodium nitrate. seven
parts ammonium borate, seventeen
parts ammonium phosphate, 400
parts of water. Mix both solutions
and permit the mixture to subside
and settle. Decant the clear solu-
ton, saturate the textiles with it
and hang them up to dry without
wringing,-St. Louis Republic.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-01-04
ANIMALS AND TRICKS.
oee.s, Pigs and Bears Not Hard =
Train For the Stage.

a farmer would scarcely behave
that a goose requires only about
sixty hours in order to prepare Vt
for the footlights and a critical au-
dienco and that a common pig
which has been bought in the mar
ket will in thirty hours be compe-
tent to blossom forth as an actor.
According to Clyde Powers, a
trainer Of wide experience and
much patience, it takes a duck
about three days to learn how to
march on the stage, to follow the
chorus and to march off again at
the proper time. II takes a chick
en- a week or more, and a turkey
cannot grasp the art Of acting IN
less than six months time.
Mr.. Powers has tried to train 9
peafowl, but he finds that it is i'm
possible. A goose is the most intel.
ligent Of all the feathered tribe,
and a goose is also the only do
nestle fowl that shows affection.
Animals arc always entertaining,
and so much in demand are they
by managers that every vaudeville
theater in America t'ooks for its
programme at least one animal act
and often two every week. A good
animal troupe is contracted for
many months ahead, and its owners
and trainers receive salaries far X
ceeding those of the average troupe
Of vaudeville performers of the hui
man species.
During a visit to a dress re-
hcarsal at the New York Hippo.
drome, SAYS a writer In Leslie's
Weekly, three or four cub bears
were being schoolcd in the art of
standing on their heads, in driving
an auto, or at least appearing to do
so, and last, but not least-for IL
amuses an audience greatly-to
drink out Of bottles.
To teach them this last act is not
very difficult IL the bottles arc filled
with swectcned water. In fact, the
difficulty comes in preventing the
cubs from stealing these bottles and
rchcarsing before II is time, so fond
are they Of this particular form Of
acting.
Bears are decidedly humorous,
and, while they know perfectly we'll
what they are doing, they often do
u trick the wrong way, apparently
just for the humor Of the thing,
and they seem 10 enjoy the scold-
ing, which with many bears is sell
dom accompanied by punishment.
The trainers pockets are usually
bullying with sugar, and the cubs
are given n taste every time they
obey orders and 90 through n trick
with willingness. II a bear is good
tempered and Of adaptable DISPOSE.
ton n new trick ran be mastered in
about four weeks.