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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS.,, June 10, 1910.

EDGERT0N, WIS, June 10, 1910.
A return of warmer weather and
more favorable growing conditions
have improved the prospects of the to-
bacco beds wonderfully during the
week. The young plants have been
making good progress of late and while
planting has been started on quite a
good many fields the work will hardly
become general until next week. There
seems to be an abundance of plants
everywhere though somewhat under
size in many localities.
There is but little doing in the mar
keting of cured leaf except by occa-
sional transactions. A 23cs lot of as
sorted '09 was delivered to Underhill
Friday. People riding the growing dis
tricts assert that the crop is now as
we'll gathered up from country hands
as any of the recent years. Quite a
quantity of the unsold remnants have
been sent to Equity warehouses re-
Gently for handling. The market for
old leaf remains quiet. We learn of
the sale of about 150cs of '06 by local
packers this week, though the move
ments are invariably of small lots.
There is considerable warehouse handl-
ing yet to be done before the close of
the season.
The shipments out of storage reach
618 cases and car loads from this
market to all points for the week.
Since last report 10 car loads have been
received.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10

complaint of cut worms. No sales of
old crops in our part of the town. =
Bradstreet, Mass: Tobacco setting is
we'll along towards finish, and in
very few days the hoeing will be start
ed, in fact, one or two have already
begun" North Hatfield, Mass: The
setting movement is in full swing in
this vicinity, and this week will see
much of it done. East Whately,
Mass: Tobacco setting is now under
way, and next week will see much of it
done. - Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10
NEW YORK. June /. 1910.

There has been little buying ex-
citement in Ohio where the remaining
Zimmer Spanish is being taken up at
ten and eleven cents. One large cigar
manufacturing concern is doing most
of the buying. The farmers in all sec
tions of the country are making good
headway in getting the young plants
into the ground. Locally, the business
has been quiet. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

One of the remarkable things of this
cold, backward season which has de-
layed the growth of all vegetation, is
how we'll the tobacco plants have pro-
gressed under the prevailing conditions.
The frequent frosts that have killed
much of the fruit and destroyed the
early gardens strangely enough have
accomplished but little injury to the to-
bacco plants. Even under the trying
weather conditions when corn has re-
fused to sprout, the tobacco beds have
still been making headway. All these
circumstances show how hardy young
tobacco plants really are-how much
grief they will stand and still survive
the shocks that to most everything else
proves detrimental to growth. Of
course there can be no rapid develop
ment under such unfavorable condi-
tions, but from almost every section
comes the report that few days of
warm sunshine is only needed to bring
along the plants in readiness for the
fields and most of them will be waiting
for the grower in preparing the field
this season. All of which empha-
sizes the fact that the little tobacco
plant is about as hardy as anything
that grows.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10
PENNSYLVANIA.
LANCASTER, Pa, May 81, 1910.

LANCASTER, Pa, May 81, 1917.
The local leaf tobacco market exhib-
tied little life the past week, trading
being confined to business with the ci-
gar manufacturers In spite of the
fact that the stock of old goods is get
ting towards the end, there has been
no recent raise in prices, as was antici-
pated.
The growers have been busy plant
ing, and the bulk of the work is done.
Last week was favorable for setting
out the plants and the growers lost no
time in doing it. Lancaster county's
acreage will be fully up to what it was
last year, and perhaps somewhat larger.
The new tobacco appears to be still
coming along nicely in the sweat, and
such sampling as has been done shows
little black rot, especially among the
force-sweated goods.
There appears to be slight improve
me1lt in the cigar industry. New Era.
The Dandelion Pest.
The most effective and practicable
method of clearing dandelion-infested
lawn, other than by hand digging, is by
the use of iron sulphate applied as. a
spray. The writer has succeeded with
three applications in entirely killing all
plants of this common law pest with
out injuring the grass. A portion of
lawn so badly infested that hardly any
thing but dandelions was visible year
ago, is now without a single plant and
the grass has thickened good deal in
consequences A solution of copperas
or iron sulphate made by dissolving at
the rate of II pounds of the salt in a
gallon of water should be applied to the
lawn with spray pump so as to wet
every plant. 1t will not do to use a
common sprinkler. The solution must
be put on in the form of spray ap-
piled with force to be most effective.
A common bucket, spray pump, or even
a hand atomizer, for very small areas,
is suitable, providing it makes flne,
forcible spray. Do not try to hit the
dandelions only, but cover every square
inch of the lawn. In this way all seed
ling plants will be killed. Put on sec
oni application in two or three weeks,
and third and possibly fourth late
in the summer if anv of the dandelions
start into growth. The grass will be
bIackened for short time, but soon
recovers, and after q watering and
moving will appear darker green than
before. Do not allow the solution to
get on cement or stone walks as it pro-
duces rather permanent, yellow stain.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10

AS the above communication invites
a discussion as to the causes Of the de-
cline of the small cigar manufactnring
industry, the writer of this column is
inclined to attribute it partly to the
general tendency to Capitalization OF
all manufacturing industries, and it is
doubtful if the cigar industry has suf-
fered more than many other manufact-
uring lines through absorption and COM
bines that have been going on in recent
years While it is true that the large
concerns have all the time been getting
bigger and the number of smaller fac
tosies dropping out, it is barely possl-
BILE that the economies of the big bus
mess" that is largely responsible for
the conditions. Whatever part the big
trust and other large concerns play as
a determining factor in the squeezing
out process it is somewhat difficult to
estimate, though their influence upon
the trade is unquestionably great. 1t
is hardly reasonable to charge it with
being the sole cause as some are won't
to do.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10

Open letter of the GAINESVILLE Leaf
Tobacco Merchants association to all
leaf trade and cigar manufacturing as
sociations and tobacco trade journals
throughout the United States:
In recent issue of the United States
Tobacco Journal, editorially comment
ing upon the proceedings Of the Hart
ford convention, that journal says:
"Did it take into consideration or de-
liberation the distressing fact of the
dying out of two thousand independent
cigar factories a year?" The same ed
itorial called attention to the fact, that
while the price of all other commodl-
ties had materially advanced, and in
some cases had doubled and trebled in
value, the price of leaf tobacco is lower
today than it was twenty-five years
ago.
Will the United States Tobacco Jour-
nal and all other tobacco trade journals
throughout the country unite with the
tobacco trade to initiate campaign of
education, and to discover, if possible,
the underlying causes that are respon-
sible for such deplorable condition?
Will they permit the use of their col
umns to fair and honest discussion of
this important subject?
Believing that the trade press of the
country is fair, and they will grant this
favor, we take the liberty to cordially
invite, and we respectfully solicit every
leaf trade or cigar manufacturing as
sociation or private individual connect
ed with the trade to express their views
upon this subject through the columns
of their trade journal.
The elimination Of two thousand man.
ufacturers from the cigar industry
every year must appeal to all as an
alarming situation, and must, if con-
tinued, eventually wipe out of exis-
tence every private manufacturer IN
this country.
1t is the desire of this association
that this subject should be thoroughly
discussed from every standpoint, and
trust that the best minds in the tobacco
trade will contribute toward solution
OF this great problem.
S. GRUNDY, Pres.
j. T. DONAHOE, Sec.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-06-10

On July / will become operative the
new tax revenue advance on tobacco at
2 cents per pound. The American To-
bacco Co. has just announced that there
will be no change in weight, size or
price of it's leading brands of plug and
twist tobacco. This means that the
new tax will not affect the consumers
pocket nor the dealer, but will involve
direct loss to the American Tobacco
Co. of between So, 900, 900 and So, 900, 600
a year. 1t means, moreover, that there
will be no decentralization of trade, such
as usually precedes announcement of
tax.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Senator Cuts No Figure

Chairman Frank @ Williams of
the republican state committee, with
reference to report that no guber-
Material candidate in the pending
Vermont campaign could expect the
support of the state organization
unless he favored a certain candi-
cate for United States senator, says:
During the period of my connec-
ton with the republican state COM
mittee, and, l think long before that,
it has never taken any stand for or
against any candidate for Office
Each member has been and is now
free to support any republican
candidate for Office before the
convention. At the only meet
ing of the committee which has
been held this year no discussion
whatever was had with relation to
the candidates for any Office and |
do not know how the committee
would vote as to any candidate.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Windsor Man Kill ed

Jahez II. Hammond, a well-known
farmer and stone mason of West
Windsor, was accidently killed un-
der peculiar circumstance es Saturday
night. He told his wife after sup
per that he had some work to do
and started toward the barn. Mrs.
Hammond retired shortly after,
woke up some three hours later, and
not finding her husband, went out
to the barn with lantern and found
his dead body pinned under man
nre spreader, the heavy wagon evil
IDENTIFY rolling upon him as he tried
to move it alone.
Mr.. Hammond had worked at his
trade as a stone mason for many
years, and among other jobs he had
charge of the repairs on the Vermont
state prison two years. He was
about G5 years old, member of
the Methodist church at Brownsville,
and a member of Windsor Lodge,
No. ~55, I. o O. F. Besides widow
he leaves several children.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
HARTFORD
ALUMNI BANQUET

Hartford high school alumni OBJ
served their 21st anniversary Friday
evening, June 10, with banquet at
the White River Tavern, at which
about rs were present. William S.
Pingree was toastmaster, and follow
ing were the responses: Words OF
Welcome" Charles Dana Hazen,
president; THE High School," Lura
Bugbee; Fair Daughters of Eve"
Albert N. Hazen; an impromptu
toast, Thomas Sinclair; Our
Alumni" Herbert X. Ashley;
Words of Counsel" Belle H. Dun
bar. The committee of arrange
ments was Miss Kathleen Starr,
Thomas Sinclair and Vincent O'Neil.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
NORTH POMFRET.

On account of the rain there was
no day service at the church last
Sunday. Next Sunday the pulpit
will be occupied by Rev. N. G.
Maynard.
The observance of Children's day
has again been performed. this time
to June 26
Mrs. Wayne Burnham spent a
day last week with her parents.
Mrs. Colby of White River juno
ton visited few days recently at
the Burbanks,
Mrs. Henry Harding. Jr, wife
and daughter of Boston, are with
his parents for few days.
Mrs. Susan Colburn and Mrs.
Reed of East Lebanon were at Mrs.
Colburn's parts of Monday and
Tuesday.
Gustavus McClay and daughter
Emma spent Monday at E. Y.
Dana's.
Hon. Homer Vail of Randolph.
with party from Woodstock enjoyed
an automobile ride to the farm
Thursday of last week.
Fl. NJ Harding and wife received
the sad news Monday of the sudden
death Of their daughter, Frances, at
the hospital as the result Of an
operation.
The Ladies' Circle is to give an
entertainment with supper annexed
at the church the evening of June
81. The committee is putting in
mnch work preparing for the event
aud with the low price of 20 cents it
is hoped there will be good atten-
dance.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Democratic State Convention
July IA

The call for the Democratic state
convention has been sent out by M.
q. LearY, Secretary of the Demo-
cratic state committee 1t is as fol-
lows:
"a convention of the Democratic
voters of the state of Vermont is
hereby called to meet at st. Adams,
Vt, Thursday, July IA, 1910, at. III
o'clock in the forenoon, to nominate
candidates for the office, of governor,
lieutenant-gov treasurer, sec
retary of state, auditor of accounts,
and attorney general to be supported
by the freemen of the state, at the
biennial election to be held Tuesday,
Septem Der 6, A. d, 1910.
Also to elect a state committee for
the ensuing two years, and to tram
sact any other business to be done
by the convention.
Representation in the convention
will be on the basis of one delegate
from each town and city and one
additional delegate for each fifty
voters or major fraction thereof, cast
for the Democratic candidate for
governor in 1908,
Delegates are to be chosen at
caucuses called by the Democratic
committee of each town or city, and
should provide themselves with Gre
dentials, signed by the chairman and
secretary of the cancus at which they
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
coyerinn Books.

To cover paper bound books take
two pieces of cardboard tiny bit
larger than book. Paste fly leaves
at front and back to cardboard,
which of course is outside. Then
take a strip of strong cotton cloth |;
paste it down back of book; have it
wide, so it will cover about one inch
of each piece of cardboard, there
by joining the two pieces together.
Now put cover of brown paper
over all, pasting securely, and your
decorated cover goes over this. The
books may be covered with decorat-
ed silk, pique or duck if you paint
OF embroider, but the simplest way
is to cover with tissue paper (not
crape). Paste a pretty card on the
front and after cutting title and
authors name from old cover ar
range them prettily on the new
one
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Senator Page

The Washington correspondent
of the Boston Record says: "The
best listener in the senate is Mr. Page
of Vermont. The senator believes
that speeches are made to be heard
and when one is delivered he will
seat himself as close to the speaker
as possible that he may not miss a
word. Naturally the speaker feels
the compliment and in turn Mr..
Page reaps his reward. The sena-
tors remain in the senate when he
speaks and they like to debate with
him
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Lighted a Bottle of Power

Earl Cheney, a ten year old boy
from Waterbury, was operated upon
at Heaton hospital at Montpelier
Sunday night after glass jar filled
with powder had been blown up in
his face, cutting and burning his
skin in terrible manner, but luck
lily saving his eyes. He was re-
ported as resting very comfortably
after the operation and it is thought
that he will fully recover. W
Young Cheney who was out play
ing, went to an old, unused laundry
building, and while rambling about
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18

are elected and present the same
to the Democratic state committee,
which is the committee on creden-
tials, at its headquarters at the
American house, Immediately on
their arrival at st. Albans,
A duplicate copy of the creden-
tials should also be mailed imme-
diately ON their election as such dele
gates to M. G.. Leary, secretary of
the Democratic state committee at
Burlington, Vt
Caucuses to elect delegates to this
convention shall be held Friday,
July l, 1910.
Further information will be found
on the blank credentials sent to
each town and city committee.
Dated at Burlington, VT, this 9th
day of June, 1910.
(Signed)
Emory S. Harris, chairman, Allen
T. Calhoun, B. E. Bullard, John
w. Thurston, j. R. Kelley, j. j..
Thompson, G. H. Russell; 9. L.
Gates, 0. G. Miller, d. F Carmody,
Phil II. Howes, NJ. j. Morgan, M. j.
Walsh. M. G. Leary, secretary,
Democratic state committee.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18

Oldest in the United States, being
first in charge of Rev. Hosea Ballou.
A church building was first erected
over one hundred years ago, and
was replaced by better one in lS4l
For some years services have only
been held there during the summer
months, but the edifce has been
repaired and renovated and is now
opened permanently.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
COLOR BLINDNESS.
Hues of tho Rainbow That Are Invis-
ible to the Eye.

Hues of tho Rainbow That Arc lnvls-
ible to the Eye.
eff we look at rainbow or the
solar spectrum produced by a prism
we see the waves arranged in a reg
ular series-red, orange, yellow,
green, blue and violet. We also
know that there are larger waves
below the red and smaller waves
above the violet, but these are in
/ visible to the eye. Persons possess
ing very acute color perception can
recognize seven colors in the spec
trum," says a writer in the Strand
Magazine, "but l have never met
person who could see more than
that number. Therefore, though
there are really millions of waves,
each differing, we can see only six
or at most seven definite points of
difference.
"Since below the red and above
the violet there are other waves of
a similar character, but invisible,
we should expect that people would
differ as to the points where they
first recognized color, just as they
differ in their ability to recognize
very low and very high notes.
'"This is the case. While one
person will see the whole of the red
(or the violet) in the rainbow, an
other will see only half of it, the re-
mainder being totally invisible. In
other cases the visible spectrum
commences at the orange. A per-
son of this kind will look at red
light which is simply binding in
its intensity and declare that the
room is absolutely dark.
'"The second class of the color
blind are those who see five or less
colors in the spectrum instead of
six. In the first degree of color
blindness five instead of six distinct
colors are seen, orange having dis
appeared as a definite color. In
the next degree only four colors
are seen, blue being no longer rec
ognized as a distinct color. Per-
sons included in the above two de-
grees may for all practical purposes
be regarded as normal sighted.
"In the next degree three colors
only are seen. Yellow is not recog
nized as definite color. 1t is call
ed greenish red. A person belong
ing to this class of the color blind
told me that a red clover field in
full blossom had to him an exactly
similar appearance to the yellow of
the spectrum.
'gThe green disappears in the
next degree, only two colors being
seen in the spectrum, or rainbow.
Less and less difference is seen be-
tween any part of the spectrum in
increasing degrees of color blind
ness until only the ends of the spec
trum are recognized as being differ
ent. Finally the spectrum appears
one uniform color, the individual
being totally color blind"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Timber Books.

There is at Cassel library prob
ably unique in the world. 1t is
bound in timber, printed on timber
pages-possibly from wood blocks
and deals exclusively with tim
ber. The library in question is the
Holzbiblistek, which was compiled
at the end of the last century by
Karl Schieldbach and is composed
of about 500 volumes made from
trees in the park at Wilhelmshohe.
Every volume bears on tab-not
in timber, but, queerly enough, in
morocco-the name of the tree
from which it was obtained. There
are plates of the tree in all stages
of its growth, and the letterpress is
a treatise on the foresting and nat
ural history of the tree.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
breaches and Sells Eggs

Probably not many of the general
public outside of the parish in ques-
tion, know that the Rev. Walter r.
Curtis of Clarendon is rivaling a
certain western clergyman so far as
performing two regular lines of
duties is concerned, says Rutland
correspondent.
Mr. Curtis is pastor of the Claren-
don Congregational church and
breaches there regularly Sunday
mornings, after which he conducts
a session of Sunday school. In the
afternoon he leads a service at the
chapel in East Clarendon, and on
many occasions he conducts services
at other nearby churches. He is
vice-president of the Rutland county
Sunday school association and is
much interested in its work, having
established several new Sunday
schools within the past year.
During the week Mr.. Curtis car
ries on the work Incidental to an
egg and poultry business, covering
two routes each week, or every ten
days at most, to do which he travels
about 40 miles, gathering up fresh
eggs and poultry from the producers.
These routes include the territory
adjacent to South Wallingford,
Wallingford, Chippenhook and Tin
mouth, beside the immediate vicinity
Of Clarendon.
Mr.. Curtis disposes of his eggs
and poultry at top notch prices to
dealers in Boston, New York and
Rutland, besides accommodating a
number of private customers in this
locality. He handles between 800
and 500 dozen of eggs each week
and from 30 to so fowls. He also
has hennery where he cares for
100 hens of his own. Besides this
work he makes a hobby of vegtt
able garden, in the last two years
selling to markets in Rutland about
$l00 worth of produce besides fur
nishing liberal supply for his own
table.
Mr.. Curtis took up his present egg
and poultry business in addition to
his ministerial duties because of
poor health and has received much
benefit from the outdoor work, be
sides gaining many valued friends
and real liking for the duties so
unusual to clergyman. His brother
ministers point him out as having
solved the country minister prob
lem"-the problem of the minister
who is expected to live on a salary
much too small for his own and his
family's needs.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
Information.

He was a kindly constable and
had for long been answering the in
quisitive old lady's questions to the
best of his ability. But he was be-
ginning to tire little. "And what's
truncheon for, policeman" inquir-
ed the inquisitive dame.
'Ketch a feller cop over the
mob if 'e gets vilent," responded
Bobby.
"And what are those numbers
for ?"
"Hidentifcashun purposes, num- y
said Bobby laconically, turning
away.
"And what, policeman" said the
old dame, catching him by the arm,
"is that strap under your chin for p
"Well, num-" snorted Bobby,
"that's ter rest me jaws when l gifts
tired answerin' silly questions"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-06-18
A Cool Soldier.

Remarkable for his self posses
sion even in the most trying mo-
ments of battle was the famous
Marshal MacMahon. One day he
was debating letter to his secre-
tary in the midst Of an action when
a shell from the enemy's camp fell
directly upon his tent and exploded
within few feet. Pale with fright,
the secretary sprang up, leaving his
letter.
"What's the matter?' asked the
marshal.
"The shell" gasped the fright
ened subordinate.
"And what has the shell to do
with the letter you are writing2 Go
on with your work, sir" 49,, Ix,ts..l, /,