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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
small. Some topping has already been

small. Some topping has already been
done, but it will be couple of weeks
before it will be general. Under most
favorable conditions the tobacco will
not be cut until very close to the period
of frost. 1t is almost foregone thing
that some of the most backward will
be caught by the frost.
Some trading is being done in 1908
tobacco, which is claimed by the pack
ers to be the best crop they have had
for some years. There is not more than
the usual amount of black rot showing,
and no other imperfections are present.
Some tests made prove that the quality
of the new goods is very fine. The
trading in 1906 and 1907 tobacco con-
tinues to be done only with the local
cigar manufacturers, who say the adj
vance the industry has made the past
few weeks is holding along on steady
lines. New Era.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
New England.

Well, for the first of August the to-
bacco crop does not quite fill my eye SO
far as quantity and quality go towards
making first rate crop of tobacco.
The fact is we have been short OF
water, and are as short today as we
have been at any time.
Our correspondents report as follows:
Montague, Mass. S'The tobacco in this
town is looking fairly well at this writ
ing, but rain will be needed soon, for
the crop to carry out. Some of the
earlier fields have been topped for from
seven to ten days, SO that cutting will
commence this month. Bradstfeet,
Mass: .sThe Belden brothers have two
or three acres of tobacco on light nd
that was set early that is about ady
to harvest. do not know of any q Ter
so forward tobacco. The Belden broth
ers cut and hung two acres Aug. 2 and
it did not require five-foot tiers to hang
the tobacco, four-foe t tier would nave
done. Hatfield stP t. Boyle has be-
gun to cut tobacco and r H. BradWeH
expects to begin today The harvest
ing will probably be quite general by
the end of the week Cultvator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
New YORK. Aug. 4, 1909.

TIE local cigar leaf market seems on
the verge of great activity. Manufac-
turers report business better, which is
substantiated by unusually heavy with
drawals of imported tobacco, and the
Western jobbers have commenced to
appear in the Water street section. AS
vet no sales of importance are reported
but there is considerable preliminary
investigation and inquiry going on. The
Western buyers are interested princi-
pally in Connecticut tobaccos. The
Havana Seed is just being sampled, and
is said to be a good tobacco, with the
exception of shortage of light wrap
pers. which, under the circumstances,
should command good price. There
is also great deal of interest in Broad
leaf, the samples of which will not be
here for week or ten days.
Sumatra. Business has been fairly
active during the past week, and with
drawals from bond are unusually heavy.
Leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
New York.
NEW YORK. Aug. z. 1909


The annual influx of Western buyers
into our market is in motion. Quite a
number of them keep themselves busy
with visiting the offices of packers,
where they expect to see the samples
at least of the New England crops.
Everyone of them is on the still hunt
for broadleaf, but very few transac-
tions have been closed, as very few of
the packers have sampled. From the
eagerness evinced, however, to get a
whack at the new crop, to scramble
promises quick sales and remunerative
figures for the packer. In actual activ-
ity, however, the market did not excel.
But the market will find food for very
serious reflection in the figures of the
output of our cigar industry for the fis-
cal year ended June 30th last. These
figures show a decrease of 13O, 800, 628
in the output of our cigar industry dur
ing the last fiscal year from the output
of the previous fiscal year of 1907-19O8,
the year in the immediate trail of the
panic during which the cigar industry
suffered falling off in it's output of
more than seven hundred millions. In
other words, compared with the record
breaking output of the fiscal year 1906
1907, the fiscal year OF 19Oo-l9O9, two
years after the panic, shows still
larger reduction in the output amount
ing to 1853, 966, 766. This certainly does
not look like recovery of our cigar in
dustry, and it must likewise have a re-
straining effect on the leaf market.
The appearance is the worse for our
leaf market, inasmuch as the eight
hundred and fifty-eight millions cigar
reduction fell chiefly on the middle and
smaller class of manufacturers, the
chief customers and the very mainstay
of the leaf jobbing trade. In the face
of this tremendous loss of over eight
hundred and fifty millions by our cigar
industry, to assert, like President Taft
did, that the free admission of one hun
dred and fifty million Philippine cigars
will not in the least injure our cigar in
dustry because that quantity does not
represent even half of the natural
yearly increase of our cigar output, is
like putting salt into an open wound. =
Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS.,, Aug. 13, 1909.

EDGERToN, Wis, Aug. 13, 1909.
Again general rains have fallen dur
ing the week putting an end to the
drouth, which is now thing of the
past in all tobacco growing sections.
The late fields are now making up for
lost time and even that which is topped
is spreading beyond expectations. The
fate of the present crcp must now lie
with the weather conditions from this
on If favored with a late fall there
is yet hope that good tobacco may be
harvested and something like rs per
cent of normal crop secured. The
growers certainly feel much more en-
couraged over the prospect now.
Buyers continue to pick up few
contracts of new leaf in the hail dis
tricts at from to cents and possibly
200 acres have been sold.
The market for cured leaf is slowly
picking up, at least there is better
feeling pervading the eastern centers.
Both 'O7 and '08 continues to quietly
move out of growers hands that is all
the time reducing the remnants in the
country. The sale of about 700 cases
of 'O7, part of the Equity holdings,
is reported closed to Spitzner, who also
bought Goes lot of '07 of O. j. Burt
ness of Oxford. A few hundred cases
of low grades have also been moved of
late.
The shipments out of storage reach
717cs for the week to all points from
this station. 1OOcs have been received
from outside points.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
VIROoIJA. WIS. Aug. 4. 1909.

Despite the fact that we have had
no rain in this section for month,
there is no cause for general complaint
regarding the small grain. But rain
tobacco crops are going to make good
showing. The early set tobacco is
heading out before it has attained the
proper growth. Given necessary moist
ure the medium plants will go forward
with a rush. They are deeply and
strongly rooted and ought to be able to
stand considerable grief yet. Late set
plants have made scarcely any progress.
Censor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

We sincerely hope that no evil results
will be felt by the tobacco trade on ac-
count of the changes in the tariff on to-
bacco, but time alone will determine
the outcome. Some idea Of the situa-
tion can, however, be gathered from
a recent report of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, Department of Commerce and
Labor, concerning Porto Rico. 1t is
stated that for eleven months of the
fiscal year ending last May the. imports
of cigars from that country amounted
to about 81, 10000 and the unmanu-
factured tobacco imported during the
same period aggregated about 81 ,OOO,-
900 in value. 1t was also pointed
out that there was prospect for ar
increase in this trade during the ensu-
ing year. This is a warning to us
which should not be undecided. The
Philippine importations may bring with
them the same results, and if tobacco
farmers of the East and Middle West
expect to continue cultivating this croI
at profit they must be continually or
guard against invasions or stretchings
of the law Our cigarmakers are also
very much interested. American cigar.
makers have over SO per cent of the
home market for the reason that tariff
rates on imported cigars are, and have
for long time been, almost prohibi
tive. The output of our cigar manu-
!. factories has more than doubled in the
last twelve years. Lancaster New Era
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

More general rains that have fallen
during the week have brought relief to
some tobacco growing sections still
suffering from the drouth. The grow
ing crop is therefore fast taking on a
more encouraging aspect. The almost
phenomenal growth that always fol-
lows such conditions can now be seen
on every hand. The plants had such
deep roofing on the stronger soils that
the recovery is immediate as soon
as the desired amount of moisture is
afforded All fields that had not reach
ed the topping stage give promise of
making a fair sized leaf and maturing
so quickly as to insure thin leaf as
well. The drouth period, it is claimed,
is the longest in the annals of the state
observatory AZ days with less than a
third of an inch of precipitation. A
singular coincidence is that the last
previous dry year, in 1901, the drouth
was broken on exactly the same date
August 9.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
Pennsylvania.

LANCASTER, Pa, Aug. 8, 1909.
Unless we have plenty of rain soon
the Lancaster county tobacco crop IS
sure of being short one. The fields
show all sorts of growth, one part hav-
ing plants that might be called fair,
while in another part they are very
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

Inc new CarlII QuL1eS ouocCllS To-
bacco, which became operative when
signed by the president, are briefly as
follows:
Regular Cigars-No change in either
customs duty or internal revenue.
Little Cigars Internal revenue tax
increased from 81 cents to Is cents per
thousand.
Cigarettes Weighing not more than
three pounds per NJ, internal revenue
tax, increased from differential rates
of 81 cents and $1.08 to fat rate of
slips; weighing more than three pounds
per NJ, increased from So to So. 60.
Smoking, Chewing and Snuff - In
creased from six cents per pound to
eight cents per pound.
Philippine Cigars and Tobacco-15O,- :
600, 600 cigars, 1000, 600 pounds of filler
and 800, 900 pounds of wrapper tobacco
may be imported free of duty. This
tobacco may be either stemmed or un-
stemmed. Cigars, not containing more
than 20 per cent of leaf not the product
of the Philippines may be included in
this provision. There is also, however,
a provision that all tobacco imported
into the Philippines excepting from
this country shall pay the same duty
that would be. collected thereon if
brought into the United States.
New Packages - For manufactured
tobacco and snuff, packages are author
lied beginning at one-half ounce, and
increasing by quarter ounces to four
ounces, above which the new law per-
mits six, seven, eight, ten, twelve,
fourteen and sixteen ounce packages.
New packages containing fives and tens
are authorized for cigars, and contain
ing fives, eights and fifteens for cigar
cites.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

~
with the exception of cigars of stand
ard size, the production of which de-
clined more than 10000, 600, is the
record for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1909, according to the official fig
.ures of the preliminary report of the
Commissioner G of Internal Revenue.
Notwithstanding the decrease in the
production of standard cigars the gain
in other tobacco products during the
year was SO great that the revenue
shows net increase of So, 024, 423. .78,
the total receipts from the tobacco
schedule aggregating $51, ,887, 178. .04.
The total number of large cigars man
.ufactured during the year was 6, TSP, :
572, 953, loss of over 154 millions from
the previous year. The decrease in the
output of cigars of standard size dur
ing 1909 represents a substantial loss
ito the cigar leaf trade. On the basis
of the internal revenue allowance of
twenty-five pounds of unstemmed leaf
per thousand cigars of standard size
the decrease in production represents
1904, ,625 pounds. Subtracting from
this quantity the gain in production of
little cigars on the basis of five pounds
of unstemmed leaf per thousand, which
amounts to 106,930 pounds, there is a
net loss in leaf consumed of 3,697, ,995
pounds. In view of the fact that the
decrease in 1908 as compared with 1907
represented loss of 10000, 600 pounds
of unstemmed leaf, it appears that the
decreased consumption of 1909 as COM
sumption of 1909 as compared with 1907
was nearly %, 700, 600 pounds.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

a $50 CASE PACKING OF 1908. GRADING
a better than the average of the 1908 crop,
for sale. Just the lot for moderate sized fac
tory Particulars can be learned by address
ing B H. this office
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

WHAT MANUFACTURERS WOULD BUY
w good lot of 1905 leaf? A sound packing
is offered at attractive prices. Can learn price
by addressing this office, care OF B 10.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

XxTOULD BUY ASSORTED 1908 CROPS IF
w price is right. Address ID II. this Office,
giving grading and asking price.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13
Notice to the Trade.

Announcements under this head are inserted
free of charge, conditioned upon brokerage fee
being paid after transactions are closed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-08-13

TOR sALE-75 CASES, ALL TOPS, SOUND
1905 binders. Ready to go on the table.
Will be sold right. For particulars address
this Office.
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24
An Extra Thanksuixinu.

A very notable proclamation inde-
pendent of the regular autumnal
Thanksgiving day, though in the Off
cial records it is designated not as a
proclamation, but as 1.-The president S
address to the people for thanksgiv-
ing and prayer" was McKinleys pro-
mitigation of July 6, 1898. The presi-
dent addressed his words ITO the Peo-
pie of the United States of America. :"
He referred to the fact that Ito the
yet fresh remembrance of the unprece-
dented success which attended the op-
erations of the United States fleet in
the bay of Manila on the 1st day of
May last are added the tidings of the
no less glorious achievements of the
naval and military arms of our be-
loved country at Santiago de Cuba"
and asked the people upon next assem-
bling for divine worship Ito offer
thanksgiving to Almighty God. who has
watched over our cause and brought
nearer the success Of the right and
the attainment of just and honorable
peace"
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24

were trying in some way to connect this
picture with the question he had asked
At the same instant Gertrude's face
assumed the expression of one who
fears she has said a word too much.
and she FASTENED to call Lawrence's
attention to the writing on the back of
the picture.
"You wrote that line above. It's the
reaching upward that counts You
asked me to write my own interpreta
ton on the picture at some later time.
l have never done SO. l suppose might
do so now. What do you suggest"
Twill you write what l suggest and
as your own?" He was now watching
her face with intensest look.
TRY me-" And she returned his
gaze as directly.
"Write. 1t takes two together to cap.
ture the higher prizes Of life"
And Gertrude so wrote and under
scored it besides.
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24
81 preferred the picture in my heart

81 preferred the picture in my heart
to any other"
Does he know that?"
"He must know it-by now" with a
battling smile
Cant you give me any idea of what
he looks like. some picture of him be-
fore you consigned him to your heart
Of course you must have had tintype
experience on some early excursion.
been snapshotted on the lawn or ko-
daked somewhere
An amused smile and a mischievous
look came to her face as Gertrude took
from its separate envelope carefully
protected little kodak picture of a
youth not vet out of his teens and a
girl just entering hers. He was bend
ing down the branch of a mountain
ash that the girl might pick the red
berries. She was trying by standing
on her toes to reach yet little higher
Here is the gem of my collection. if
you will see it. Perhaps you will rec
ognize the subjects and recall the oc-
casion. | have never become reconcil-
ed to the fact that you failed to bring
those berries within my reach"
With wrence's look of recognition
and laugh at the all but forgotten cir
cumstances of the time thus recalled
came a puzzled expression. as if he
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24
To the Cranberry,

Let others praise in fervent lays
The plump Thanksgiving bird,
And let them sing of leg and wing,
With old Pegasus spurred
Until his speed is great indeed
And all is blithe and merry.
But let me sing that splendid thing,
The succulent cranberry.
o humble fruit, we've long been mute
Upon thy many charms
With nipping zest you do your best
To ward dyspepsia's harms.
Both sour and sweet you sauce the meat.
Your flavor does not vary.
Retiring, coy, yet full Of joy
o marvelouS cranberry.
About you hangs taste that tangs
The food that would be harsh
Your plump skins filled with dew, dis
titled
Above the sun kissed marsh.
No grape, I'll say, of old Tokay
Or from Oporto airy
DripS with a wine as rich as thine
O excellent cranberry!
Of ruby hue, a jewel, too,
To grace the festal board.
With lavish heart you give your part
Give all your spicy hoard.
When eager Tipped we've sat and sipped
The juice that vies with sherry.
All, of the feast you're not the least.
Melif1uous cranberry.
So let them praise in lifting lays
The turkey and the pie,
But let me sing that splendid thing
That makes the heart beat high.
/ would not waste one shade of taste.
I'd drain the dictionary
To find more ways to sing the praise
OF thee, . rare cranberry.
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24

would have returned home sorely dis
appointed had he not encountered at
least one deep drift experience.
At breakfast it was arranged that
Lawrence, with old Jacob. should un-
dertake the breaking through of the
gully road as far as the Widow Ben
nett's. At that point they Tould un
a mile beyond.
Now. Lawrence had pleasant recol-
lections of Widow BENEFITS hospita-
BILE home. AS a boy it had opened it's
arms TO him, and it was there he had
spent many an hour with Mrs. Bennett
and her granddaughter, the brightest,
black eyed, alert little girl that ever
wore short skirts. rode on snowplows.
called him Uncle Law" and insisted
on his own grownupness and his fit
ness to advise her on her reading. her
studies and even her ambitions. Ger
trude, however, had been away at
school these later winters and Law
renee had caught no glimpse of her.
although his aunt and even his uncle
had much TO say or ner attractlVeneSS
and loveliness us evidenced in the sum-
mer life of the place.
I'VE ought to make Bennett's by
noon and get back here by chore time"
was the schedule announced by old
Jacob
IF it gets any worse later in the
day don't try to get back tonight. Just
bed at the Bennett farm and dig to-
ward US in the morning" was the un
cle's parting advice.
The storm did grow worse and grew
worse so rapidly that by the time they
had covered threequarters of the dis
tance to the Widow Benefits Law
renee and old Jacob considered it ad-
yisable to detach the horses from the
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24

snowplow and. mounted one on each
horse, make their way to the Bennett
farm.
Worst storm ever" said the widow
as she welcomed the two. 1T doesn' t
look as if we should get out for days.
was telling Gertrude it was mighty
lucky for her that she came yesterday.
for she couldn't possibly have escaped
a snow blockade had she taken train
later"
Lawrence was all attention. "I say,
little Gertrude isn't here, is sheT' he
asked.
"Well. don't know as she is" quiz
zically replied the grandmother "Lit.
tie Gertrude hasn't been in evidence
for some years. but Miss Gertrude isn't
far away"
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24
A SNOWED-IN
THANKSGIVING
By EFF HATCH
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association

r AWRENCE GREER. looking from
his bedroom window, could see
nothing but snow as far as his
eye Travelled. 1t was snow on the
window panes, snow on shrub and tree
and hill. snow everywhere in all sorts
Of fantastic shapes and with yet more
coming. The first big storm of the sea-
son was descending on the region
whittier he had come but two days be-
fore to spend his Thanksgiving vaca-
ton from city office duties in his uncle's
home Already roads and even fences
were Obliterated.
Hello, Lawrence!" came the voice
Of his uncle from below "Guess We'll
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24
What Did She Mean?

Harold What did she say when you
turned out the gas and kissed her?
Rupert-Said she felt as if she never
wanted to see my face again.-Phila'
delphia Record
The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24

nave TO dig out
our end Of the
gully road this
morning. Break
fast ready in ten
minutes. Get on
ur heaviest
togs. It's a sniff
ter this time"
T b S wasn't
the first tt m e
t ha t Lawrence
had lent a hand
in snow plowing
a n d ShOveling.
out the showed
inS of his uncle'S
district. e V e r
since he was a
boy of fifteen,
ten years before,
he had b e e n
making annual
winter visits to
this best of all
his uncleS and
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-16
LECTURES ON GENEALOGY.

The first of series of ~ lessons on
peuclIor, was given at the missionary
class off enc T.. ID. IS. university Thurs
day evening. Mrs susa y. Gates,
aftar outlining thc scope NJ these los-
-ous spoke of g-uealogy as "A science
ELDER Anthony " Wine of the council
of Cine twelve. referred tu the Interest
ukpn boz rcnoaloRy throughout th.
world. and Of shc large libraries aud
genealogical societies The speaker snld
aNpu are spending time ANA money 200
pomuuug family genclloRies and We
have tho benefit Of their work. We us
IA people. 90 not take the interest Wc
should" Hc urged all to avail them
selves OF this opportunity and join inc
class. Duncan ~ McAllister omphn-
sized tho importance ~ system and ace
ruracy boo genealogical research. and
said. "Thc board cog the Genealogical
society. realizing the necessity or This.
has given hofe Interested this oppor-
tuuuy of getting the necessary infor-
nation"
Prof Done invited au interested boo
thr study of Gcuealngy to attend these
lessons Tho next lecture. "GenoalnEy
among Inc Icwf.' win b. given at
Room $50 R y Memorial building We'd
ucsla} evening oct 20 at 1880
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-16
New Home Opera Company
Will Render The Serenade'

During The past few weeks number
of leading amateur singers and actors OF
Salt Lake have been organizing new
home opera company. which will take
the name OF "The salt fakers.' and
win make It's FIRST appearance Thanks
giving Day rendering the opera ot
"rho Sorcnade Nearly every one OF
the members of the new company was
associated with the old salt Lake Opera
company. the proprietors OF which are
Prof j D. Mcclellan. John ID. Spen-
Ger and George j. Piper but when 10
was learned that this company pro-
posed 90 DO nothing the present season.
the new singers took up the idea OF an
Organization with vim and brought
together "a strong chorus. obtained the
rights o. 'rhe scrcnade' from the
Witmurlls OF New York. and are now
actively rohearsing. Those concerned
are Spencer Clawson. Jr.. musical d.
rector. Alex Campbell business man