The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-02-26
New York.
New YORK. Feb. 20. 1905

New YORK, Feb. 20, 1909.
It looks as if the volume of trading
in the leaf market for the month of
February will fall behind even that of
February year ago. The output of
the cigar industry this month will cer-
tainly be one of the lowest on. record
in recent years. Our reports from all
over the country are with very few
exceptions discouraging as to recovery
of the trade. In some localities some
factories have been compelled to re-
duce again their working force, while
in others some have shut down alto
gether. And yet some factories are
buster than ever, and some will more
than double their out of that in Febru-
ary of last year. So it is with the leaf
trade too. Some houses seem to be ex-
tremely busy while others complain of
extreme dullness. Evidently the ex-
pected and confidently predicted gen
eral recuperation has not as yet arrived
to stay in spite of the squirt of activity
in January. Nobody seems to be able
to vouchsafe reasonable explanation
why the leaf trade and cigar industry
do not catch up with bigger demand.
The United States Tobacco Journal
never shared in the altogether too opti-
mistic hopes of a quick recovery from
the late panic. We have repeatedly ex-
pressed our opinion based on past ex-
periences that steady progress and
advance of activity both in the leaf
trade and cigar industry can hardly
materialize before next fall. In the
mean time, in spite of the disappoint-
ments in more rapid and bulkier
movements of the stocks of leaf on
| hand, the trade seems to calculate al
ready on the outcome of the inscrip-
tons of the new Sumatra crop which
will begin next month. Reports about
| the new crop have not been as. abun-
| dant as usual at this time. But from
what we consider an authoritative
source, that the new crop will have a
| far larger than the usual percentage of
broken leaf, that is stuckblatt, the fig
| ure being given as high as 40 per cent.
Deducting at least 25 per cent of other
unavailable leaf for this market it ap-
pears that there will be a reduced guam
| tity of the available sizes for the Amer
| lean market and such a reduction will
! undoubtedly have the tendency of over
| bidding and thereby screwing up prices.
| Journal.
NEW ORk, rep. IL, 15OJ.
| Some tobacco of the 1907 Pennsyl-
| vania and Wisconsin has been sold this
| week, and some inquiry has been heard
for the new Connecticut. Otherwise
| the market in domestic leaf has been
extremely quiet. The buying move
| ment in the country districts has, in a
| great measure, subsided, and from all
| accounts there is not great deal of to-
bacco still left in farmers hands. Two
or three of the larger manufacturing
| concerns are credited with having been
most active lately, supposedly supply
| ing themselves with grades that were
found lacking in the earlier purchases,
and also perhaps for the purpose of
striking better average on prices than
was afforded by the purchases made
| earlier in the season, at which time ex-
tremely high prices were paid. Leaf.
BALDwINsvILLE, N. Y, Feb. 18, 1909.
Practically all the tobacco in the
Baldwinsville section has been bought
up, is the gist of the latest reports.
Prices range from six to nine cents in
the bundle Buyers there are thinning
out. In the Fulton and Meridian dis
tricts there is considerable tobacco still
to be marketed and large number of
BUYERS is on hand.
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, PA, Feb. 16, 1909.
The past week was as listless in the