The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-12-13
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES


A season of casing weather which
brought the hanging tobacco into ideal
condition for removing from the curing
sheds prevailed early in the week and
gave the growers an opportunity to take
down as much of the new crop as they
desired The tobacco damps' contin-
ued long enough so that every portion
of the curing sheds was brought into
pliabIe condition and the entire crop
might have come down had the farmer
so wished. A warm temperature that
prevailed during the As hour season of
fog and rain helped materially to put
the leaf into just the proper degree OF
cure SO seldom obtained. Stripping can
now go forward as the growers find time
and the crop handled at his leisure with
out the employment of additional labor
that would be required if the crop hung
until towards spring. just what pro-
portion of the crop has been removed is
difficult to determine at this writing,
but as the tobacco was in such tine con
dition it is quite likely that larger
share is now down and ready for strip
ping. It might be we'll in this connec-
tion to caution growers against putting
into bundles wet butts or high case leaf.
These ought to be kept entirely separate
lest the entire bundle be stained and in
jured. Ii some portion of the crop is
late and off color, it would be we'll, too,
if the different grades be stripped sep
arate and kept apart. The tobacco must
be sold on its merits this year and it
doesn't help the appearance Of q crop to
have the poor end mixed with the better
quality.
In the circuit court the case OF Moon
ey & Terry VS.. Elizabeth Page was set
tied last Friday by the defendant paying
back the advance money of $50. The
case arose over crop of 1906 tobacco
raised by the defendant near Brodhead
and purchased by Mooney & Terry at
| 70 cents for wrappers, binders and filters
and 2 cents for trash. When the tobac-
CO was delivered Mooney Il Terry re-
fused to accept it because OF trash and
damage contained in wrappers, binders
and filters, and demanded the return of
the advance money. The defendant re-
fused to pay it and Mooney & Terry
garnished the purchase price on the re-
sale of the tobacco to E. @. Tallard for
| y cents per pound. The defendant
counterclaimed for damages of cents
per pound on the purchase price and $50
storage and $15 for hauling the tobacco
| home. In justice court the defendant
recovered $65 and costs. On appeal In
| the circuit court she recovered verdict
| for SIS against Mooney & Terry On
Friday a motion for new trial was
agreed and the defendants attorneys
| offered to waive their Judgment and pay
1 back the 500 advance money and each
| party to pay their own costs, which offer
| was accepted by the plaintiffs, and thus
| ended an expensive lawsuit which has
probably cost more than the original
I price of the crop.
***
The testimony so far elected in the
action of the government against the
| American Tobacco Co., now on trial for
several weeks in New York, has not
brought anything that the public was
not pretty we'll familiar with before
Unless the government can maintain a
better case tlan it has so.far developed
there is small hope that the trust will be
convicted of anything more serious than
| of building up corporation that con-
trolls very large share of the trade OF
the country. The absorption of com
peting concerns has never yet been de-
clared crime by the courts.
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| The climax is coming fast ia the Bur
lev districts of Kentucky where the
/ night riders ana the COfcn nave play0u
such an important part in forcing grow
ers to place the sale of their tobacco
with the association. The killing of a
night rider by posse in pursuit of the
band that shot up the town of Hopkins
| Vile early this week has aroused Gov
elect Wilson to declare that if necessary
| he would order out the state militia and
|! if that failed to put a stop to the law
lessness, be would call upon President
Roosevelt for federal troops in sufficient
nun bers to handle the situation.
~
The Philippine tariff bill is again be-
fore Congress. 1t was introduced in the
House of Representatives on the opens
ing day of the Sixtieth Congress, by
Representative Payne of New York, the
Republican floor leader OF the House
and prospective chairman of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, to which
the bill was referred. As Congress will
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