The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-02-04

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of the new crop are bringing slightly
lower prices this year than usual, nor
is the demand as strong as some other
seasons when the cutters were active
competitors for this class of leaf.
Prices have sagged so that the export
ers now have chance to get portion
of our cheaper tobacco, whereas for a
few seasons past they have been pretty
we'll crowded out of the market by the
strong competition of domestic manu-
facturers of stripped stock. Whenever
low grade domestic tobaccos can be OBJ
tanned cheap enough there is an unlim-
tied outlet for it in an export market,
but the price was always the determin-
ing factor, and until recent years a
very large proportion of Wisconsin fill
ers sought that market. But since the
development of the combination smok
ing and chewing business to such large
proportions the home demand has SO
largely absorbed these goods and the
price advanced that exporters have
looked to other countries for their sup
ply. Now they see a chance to do a
more extensive business in the cheaper
grades of domestic leaf.
A bill exempting the tobacco pool"
and other organizations in agriculture
from the operation of the Sherman
antitrust law has been introduced in
the House by Representative Cantrill
of Kentucky. The bill seeks to add as
an additional section to the Sherman
law the following: "The provisions of
this act shall in no case apply to any
contract or combination in any form,
the purpose of which is to secure to
labrers or employees reasonable COM
pensation for their labor nor to any
contract or combination in any form,
the purpose of which is to secure to
growers or producers OF agricultural
products or livestock reasonable price
thetefor, but such contracts and COM
binAtions are expressly exempted from
the provisions of this act. If such
Sill becomes a. law it would then be in
order to add another section exempting
arson, intimidating, murder and other
lawless depredations of night-riders
from prosecution and punishment.
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/ At South Bend, Ind, new factory
will be opened about March 1st by the
American Cigar Company, a building
being erected for that purpose being
now we'll under way. According to re-
port the factory will be one of the
largest in the country, and it is expect
ed to prove the most important busi-
ness acquisition to that city in several
years.
The cigar factory of the DIESEL
Wemmer Company opened at Sidney,
Ohio, recently in the large Woodward
building, with a force of rs hands.
Manager Charles D. O'ConneH of Lima
is in charge. He expects to increase
the force to at least 500 operatives.
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The most substantial proofs of the
complete recovery not only, but also of
the normal progress and advancement
of our cigar and tobacco industries are
placed before our readers in this issue
in the United States Tobacco Journal's S
compilation of the output of those in
dustries during the calendar year 1909,
ended on December 31st last. The out
put shows an increase of 356, 49,, 491 for
our cigar industry, divided as follows:
An increase of 235, ,087, 365 for the large
cigars in total output of 1850, ,688, 484
and an increase for the little cigars OF
121, 344, 127 in total of 1,O97, 121 ,045.
The total output of our cigar industry
reached again the eight billion figure,
exceeding it by over seventeen millions.
These figures will no doubt be received
and read with the utmost satisfaction.
They will be the more appreciated
when it is taken into consideration that
our cigar industry lost in 1908 761, 622,
955 in its output and that its increase
in 1907 over its output in 1906 amounted
only to 54, ops, ,240. Although the read
ers were prepared by our monthly re-
turns and comments for an inspiring
result of our cigar industry's activity
during the past year, they could have
hardly expected the outcome to be as 1t
actually proves. And having reached
again its normal increase the prospects
Of our cigar industry are most fiatter-
Jug for doubling during the current
year. But perhaps the most sensa-
tional revelation in the figures present
ed is the phenomenal increase of 933,
691, ,060 or pretty near billion in the
output of our cigarette industry, in to-
tai of 6, 788, ,O49, ,782. And this despite the
legislative boycott against the paper
roll by any number of our western
states. The cigarette has become a
close second to the cigar in the favor
and habit of the American smoker, as
it indeed has all over the world, in some
countries even far outstripping the
consumption of cigars. In manufact-
ured tobacco the increase is also most
substantial, amounting to over 10 per
cent on the entire production. As all
the trades industries show such de-
cided advance in their output, 1909 will
have to be gratefully remembered by
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