The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-12-04

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Tobacco Reporter was not using it's
readers fair. He says that he believes
that the Reporter shows strong ten
dency towards trying to aid the buyers
in Keeping the price of the crop down.
He related that the Reporter is very
frank about giving the price on sales
where it was not high but where good
figure was paid they fail to publish the
amount. This he claims leads the farm
or to believe that the average is the pre-
vailing and popular price, and so believ-
ing, is willing to sell when be gets an
offer OF about that much. Whether this
be true or not we do not know We are
inclined to hope and even believe that
he is mistaken, but whether or not it is
true it will be we'll for the tobacco raiser
to endeavor to find out from more than
one single source as to what the prevail.
ing price is. The matter of depending
entirely upon any one source for infor-
nation is disastrous, even at best.-Vi-
roqua Republican.
In the twenty-five or more years ex-
perience in endeavorirg to publish
newspaper, the writer has found it inn
possible to please everybody and is,
therefore, not surprised that some mem
bers of the Society Of Equity especially
should accuse this paper of unfair mo-
tives. Some people are naturally sus-
picious of everybody and everything
they cant help it being SO constituted -
and it is little use to try to remove this
disability. It is easy enough to suspect
that The Reporter isn't fair in it's re-
ports of sales, but it is quite another af-
fair to snbstantiate the claim. 1t must
DO conceded that about the only method
the public has of receiving information
regarding the movements IN Wisconsin
tobacco comes through The Reporter
and the public knows but little of the
difficulties this paper has to contend
with in securing accurate information
which must cone to it through two
sources = the buyer who makes the deal
or the seller which is generally the
farmer. If prices range high the dealer
is naturally adverse to giving in the sales
end when the price is low the grower
AqIently swears the buyer to secrecy,
and between the two extremes correct
information is often difficult to obtain
and we publish just what figures we can
get from every source, after being verified
If possible. That the Reporter is some
times imposed upon by growers who give
in too high figures to help swell the
, market or by dealers who report sales
less than the price paid may at times
be true, but,this paper is all the time
acting in good faith with it's readers and
gives as accurate reports as it is possible
to make. The figures given each week
could be made even more reliable if the
grower and dealer co operate in furnish
ing more accurate reports, but until they
do so we give the best information ob-
tainable. We are willing to submit to
our readers who have followed the mar
ket reports in this paper for years past
if the charge of unfairness is justifia bic.
We have often wondered what informa-
tion the public would obtain concerning
the tobacco markets of this state if The
Reporter was not the instrument OF dis
terminating such information. How near
the average price do you think the grow
ers would get?
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| What is said to be the largest trans
action ever made in leaf tobacco was re-
Icently closed by the American Tobacco
Co. with the Burley Tobacco Society
and included rs per cent. of the pooled
06 and '07 crops amounting TO nearly ~
million pounds and involving deal oi
/ iSl2O00O00. The close of the deal is by
far the most important event that has
transpired in the affairs of the tobacco
growers OF Kentucky in many years. 1t
means that the hurley tobacco growers
| have won signal victory in their fight
for higher prices, and it insures the per-
manency of their organization, known as
| the Burley Tobacco Society. All fear OF
further night rider outbreaks in the bur-
| ley belt passes away with this immense
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| further need for the farmer to worry
along or resort to violence IN seeking q
redress for his real or fancied wrongs.
The streams of money that will pour in
to his Golfers will benefit the residents
Iof the hurley belt in more ways than
one. The farmer will have money to
pay debts that have incurred and some
to spare. Banks that have loaned money
on warehouse certificates will be reim-
bursed, and an era OF prosperity is sure
to return to the trouble ridden section
of the state.
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The Agricultural Experimental station
has just completed threshing this sea-
sons crop of tobacco seed Eight hun
dred and fifty pounds OF Connecticut
Havana seed were produced from two and
one half acres of tobacco leaf At the
price of fifty cents an ounce, low for to-