The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-02-07

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The program for two days joint con-
vention of the Wisconsin Tobacco Grow
ers and Dealers association in connec-
tion with the State Department of
Farmers Institutes to be held at James
vile February % and 26, will soon be
issued and will contain topics of interest
to all connected with the tobacco indus
try of this state. The Hon. Geo. Wylie,
of Morrisonville, member of tie board of
directors of the State Agricultural So
ciety, will preside at this convention.
Other prominent tobacco men from this
state and other states will speak, and
several of the professors from the agri-
cultural school of the university will also
give addresses. These meetings are ed
ucational in their aim. All the speeches
and papers are printed, bound and sent
out amongst the farmers OF the state,
and furnish about the only tobacco lit
erature obtainable. In addition to the
papers there will be tobacco exhibit,
and $3.50 will be distributed in prizes.
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The best measure of what is going on
in the tobacco market is record of the
actual transactions. The Reporter aims
to give all the news Of this character
possible, but 1T is sometimes difficult to
obtain such, for frequently the dealers
for reasons best known to themselves
are desirous of keeping their sales quiet.
Growers can scarcely do themselves bet
ter service than to report their sales. 1t
is the only way by which you may be
certain of knowing just what is occur
ring in the market. Nothing will help
put some life in the buying movement
so quickly as to publish good, strong
list of Gales. Help it along by sending
in every bit of reliable news you hear of.
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The u. S. Tobacco Journal has sum
married. the effect of the late panic on
the output of the tobacco industries
with the following conclusions: The
panic is responsible for loss in full
tledged cigars Of 335,598,477 in little ci-
LIS Of 18l, ,977 1858, in cigarettes of 438,
534,3O8 and in manufactured tobacco of
12,173,748 pounds. And the severity OF
the disaster caused by the panic is evi-
denced by the fact that the two months
of November and December alone show
a loss in the output of large cigars of
221 ,374, ,910, which with the single other
loss experienced during the year in the
month of June which amounted to l3,-
$4,000, totals up the loss to 235 Ol5,9lO
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
We present these figures not merely to
keep up our accustomed trade record of
statistics, but for the higher purpose OF
study by every tobacco ralser packer
and manufacturer so that he may be en-
abled to form an intelligent judgment OF
his own on the situation and shape his
business accordingly.
Here is the latest 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 exceeding
| ly harmful to warehouse men and farm
ers alike They claim that two years
ago the trusts encouraged local buyers
| by allowing them to buy up crop at
| moderate prices and then the trusts
| bought the contracts at fair profit to
| the local dealers, but this they claim
was only done as trap for it was de-
| signed to encourage the local men to
plunge into the market of 1905 and get
so overstocked that when the 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 almost nothing.
What the society proposes to do is to re-
fuse to sell their 1907 crop at price be-
| low its value, and if the warehouse men
cannot get loose in time &c take the crop,
! because of the trusts refusing to let BIN
unload the l9O6 crop the society pro-
poses to join forces with the warehouse
men, sort, pack and store their l9Ul crop
| along with the 1906 one and refuse TO
sell the 1907 crop until they can get
what it is really worth" This is the first
intimation that the Society of Equity
was founded for pniely phiianthf0plc
| purposes
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In an official statement issued by the
American Tobacco Co, that corporation
disclaims responsibility for the night
riders and other disturbances 10 the to-
bacco-growing sections of Kentucky and
| Tennessee. In the first place, says the
statement, most of the disorder is to be
met with in the region where dark fired
tobacco is grown. at Hopkinsville, Rus
sellyille, Clarksville, and other points.
! The tobacco people say they use SIXTY
per cent. of the total production of the
! districts growing Burley tobacco, and