Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-02-12
ASSERTING SHOULD BEGIN
WAREHOUSE MEN OFFER FACILITIES
TO FARMERS.
Case Weather Brishtsns Situation-To-
bacco Notes Of Interest

baceo Notes Of Interest
Owing to the fact that there is still
nothing doing in the tobacco market.
the question what shall we do is often
asked. The CENSOR has received an
expression from three of our warehouse
men, Messrs. o. H. Helgeson, o. A..
Kalvestran and F. P. Mcintosh, who
uniform us that they stand ready to
open their warehouses to farmers who
wish their tobacco assorted and prs in
cases. The above named gentlem,n n
state they will do the work just me
same as if for themselves, at as lev a
price as can be afforded. There is al
ready considerable tobacco down and
stripped and the CENSOR believes the
sooner it is assorted the better.
In case the tobacco is stored with the
packers, receipt is given for it. These
receipts are worth money to the grow
er, inasmuch as reasonable amount of
money could be borrowed upon them at
the local banks. Why not take these
men at their word? Farmers can then
safely hold their tobacco until market
is opened, many idle people would be
employed, and conditions bettered for
sorted, if not sold, and If the growers
who now have their tobacco in the bun
die wait until the spring rush, they may
have considerable damaged tobacco on
their hands, and also have difficulty in
getting the asserting done. Why not
talk the matter up and act now?
At last the long-looked for case
weather is with us. Already growers
are working overtime to get their crop
down and everybody begins to look
happy again. The air has been damp
all week, but Tuesday night put on the
finishing touches, and softened the leaf
sufficiently for handling.
The CENSOR is informed that buyers
for local tobacco man has been max
ing offers for valley grown tobacco
during the past few days. AS high as
10 cents was offered for best crops.
While we cannot vout:h for the report,
yet it sounds good to US.
The program for a two days Joint
convention of the Wisconsin Tobacco
Growers and Dealers association in
connection with the state department
OF farmers Institutes to be held at
Janesville February rs and 26, will
soon be issued and will contain topics
of interest to all connected with the
tobacco industry of this state. In ad-
dition to the papers there will be a to-
bacco exhibit, and $50 will be distri-
buted in prizes.
The United States Tobacco Journal
has summarized the effect Of the late
sat.fn Ak..aS q ~.
dustrjes with the following conclusions.
The panic is responsible for a loss in
fullfedged cigars of 1886, 598. ATT, in little
cigars of 1S1, 977, 1853, in cigarettes of
ABB, 534, 30S, and in manufactured tobac-
co of IL 173, 748 pounds. And the se-
verify of the disaster caused by the
panic is evidenced by the fact that the
two months of November and December
alone show loss in the output of large
cigars of 221, 374, $40, which with the
single other loss experienced during the
month of June which amounted to 49,
639, 900, totals up the loss to 235, ,015, $40
in the output of large cigars during the
calendar year 1907. But for the panic
1907 would have been the biggest year
for every branch of our trade industries.
Here is the theory advanced by people
engaged in the Equity movement that
will be news to most of our readers:
They believe, upon what appears to be
reasonably logical argument, that the
American tobacco trusts have played a
pretty shrewd trick on local dealers
which, if true, is bound to be exceedingly
harmful to warehouse men and farmers
alike. They claim that two years age
the trusts encouraged local buyers BY
allowing them to buy up a crop at mod
crate prices and then the trusts bought
the contracts at fair profit to the To-
cal dealers, but this they claim was
only done as trap for it was designed
to encoLrage local men to plunge into
the marketof 1906 and get so overstocked
that when tire trust would hold off on the
buying of the warehouse holdings, the
warehouse men could not go into the
market and then the trust agents could
go out and buy up the 1907 crop at al
most nothing. What the society pro
poses to do is to refuse to sell their
1907 crop at a price below its value, and
if the warehouse men cannot get loose
in time to take the crop, because of the
trusts refusing to let him unload the
1906 crop, the society proposes to join
forces with warehouse men, sort, pack
and store their 1907 crop along with
the 1906 one and refuse to sell the 1907
crop until they can get what it is really
worth, -