The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-05-07
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More seasonable weather has pre-
vailed during the week and growers
have been permitted to finish up the
work of laying their seed beds, though
heavy frosts have appeared nearly
every night, requiring an unusual
amount of protection for the beds if
the seed has terminated. Some grow
ers becoming fearful that the heavy
freezes had ruined their first seeding
have made additional beds during the
week in order to be sure of supply of
plants. Seed distributors report an
unusually late call for seed which indi-
Gates that growers are fully awake to
the situation. Well sprouted seed un-
der canvas covered beds comes forward
very rapidly and seems very likely to
be ready by the time the average farm
er can prepare his fields in June next.
The tobacco trade of Ohio has united
in placing its views on the tariff ques-
ton before congress in recent memor-
ial, the gist of which is as follows:
Whereas, along the present lines of
duty established by the Dingley tariff
bill, the tobacco trade and the pro-
ducers of tobacco are all fairly satisfied,
now that different interests have be-
come adjusted to those rates;
Therefore be it resolved that we, as
trade organization and being one of a
number of similar organizations located
throughout the tobacco growing dis
tricts of the United States, whose pur
poses are to promote and foster the
growing of leaf tobacco, and the handl-
ing and manufacturing in all its
branches, and to look after the inter-
ests of tobacco raiSerS, tobacco pack
ers, tobacco jobbers, cigar and tobacco
manufacturers, and their employees,
do hereby strenuously protest against
the admitting free of duty of any to-
baccO or cigars whatsoever in the
United States from the Philippine Is
lands.
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Inside information Us said to be OBJ
tanned from Washington that after all
the senate is likely to make some
changes in the proposed tariff legisla-
ton SO far as relates to- the duty free
imports OF Philippine tobacco and CT
gars. Petitions without number have
been pouring in onfthe senate and house
f,om all the cigar growing and cigar
manufacturing states demanding that
if those items are not wholly stricken
out, they SHAH be materially reduced In
amount both as to the raw tobacco and
cigars Cigar manufacturers, packers,
JobberS and the rest seem to have taken
the alarm &na sare now aiding the grow
ers In their fight.
An experiment which was tried last
year by John B. Stewart, q. S. a0bac-
60 expert at Tariffvilie, CT, may prove
advantageous for general practice, says
| the N. h. Homestead. 1t is noted that
when she young tobacco plants are set
| out, their growth is suspended for a
few days. 1T has been demonstrated
that a crop that is grown quickly makes
| a much better wrapper tobacco than
! the slow growing crop. TO avoid the
delay in growth from setting out, Mr..
| Stewart tried a new plan last year
whioh was so successful that he will re-
peat it this spring. Of course, the
young plants spring up very close to-
gether in the beds and there are more
plants than are needed to set out. Mr..
Stewart decided to transplant the young
| plants in the beds, taking them when
| they are half the size required for set
ting outdoors, and placing them about
| 2 or 3 inches apart in another part of
| the seed bed. Last springs expert
| 7na71t showed that there was NO setback
In the growth of the plant within the
| beds and that when they were finally
set out they were much stronger than
those grown in the customary way.
| The result was almost no suspension in
| the growth of the seedlings and the
plauts thus handled came to maturity
some twoweeks earlier than the others.
The advantages of an early maturing
crop are numerous, but when to this is
added better quality, it is worth while
for growers to experiment.
Such "a plan might do as an expert
menty but how is the average farmer
with amy considerable acreage going to
manage the transplanting necessary for
a crop2 Another case where theory
and practice do not work out well.
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A 50-page bulletin, illustrated, deal
ing with principles and practical meth
DDS of curing tobacco, has just come
from the press of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, having been prepared by w.
w. Garner, physiologist in charge of
tobacco Investigations. 1t is divided
into fxr,o coo4soroO ECpripcipIoc of {17riy,cr