The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-13

The Department of Agriculture has
issued a bulletin on ''The Present
Status of the Tobacco Industry writ
ten by Whiteman w. Garner, physiolo-
gist in charge of tobacco investigation.
The annual production of the various
types given in round numbers is as fol-
lows:
Dark export (ire cured) 2l0,OOO,OOO
Maryland and Eastern Ohio export
Dark ' manufacturing eanrfa (air cured . 65oooooo
Rurlev 190 0O0 600
Bright fue cured. ................. 2OO, 600 OOO
Periuue ........... 2000
The summary with which the article
concludes is given as follows:
From the foregoing considerations
regarding the development and the nat
ural division of the tobacco industry
into types, according to the conditions
under which these are produced and the
uses to which they are put and the re-
lation of supply to demand IN each case,
the following general conclusions may
be drawn:
There are number of distinct types
of tobacco produced, each of which is
adapted to certain definite trade re-
quirements.
s These differences in type are the re-
SUIT of the variations in soil and cii-
matte conditions under which the to-
bacco is grown and to lesser degree
of different methods of production.
The recognized tobacco-growing dis
tricts thus produce types of leaf known
by the trade to possess definite quail
ties which adapt them to definite pur-
poses.
+ Present trade requirements as. re-
CARDS type differences are based large
" on the character of the tobaccos pro-
duced by sections in which tobacco cul-
ture has long been an important indus
try and therefore have become firmly
established.
The merits of product from new
locality or new variety must be de-
monstrated before it will be accepted
by the trade, and unless such product
is practically identical with an estab
lished type with reference to trade
standards it will generally fail to Sc
cure recognition. Moreover, the Sec
tions in which tobacco culture is already
firmly established are capable of great
ly increasing their present output of
the various types if market demands
should warrant such increase, hence
extension to new territory should not
under present conditions be unduly
stimulated.
There is a permanent demand Tor
more or less definite quantities OF GER
tain well-recognized types Of tobacco,
but any considerable increase in out
put above this demand reduces prices
to point where the crop becomes un-
profitable.
In the few instances in which new
variety, as the white Burley, or the
product of new methods of growing and
handling, as the bright hue-cured to-
bacco, has temporarily commanded
fancy prices, the rapid increase in pro-
duction has reduced the profits to the
grower to level comparable with those
for other similar types. In the case OF
shade-grown cigar tobaccos, which for
time were very profitable in Florida
and Georgia, present prices are such as
to leave little or no profit to the grow
erS.
There is room for Improvement in
both the yield and quality of the out
put of the different tobacco-growing
sections With the exception of small
areas producing high grade cigar wrap
yer leaf under intensive systems and
for which there is relatively a very
limited demand, the best results are
obtained by growing tobacco as
money crop in properly planned ro-
tation system with other crops adapted
to the local conditions.
Strong condemnation of so-called
cures for the tobacco habit is made by
the Department of Agriculture in bull
letin issued this week. 1t was prepared
by L. F. Kebler, chief of the drug di-
vision of the Bureau of Chemistry. He
says: There are quite number of
so-called tobacco-habit cures on the
market. All of them are Ineffective,
and some contain cocaine in one form
or another, which at once indicates the
purpose of the promoter of the remedy
Instead of eradicating what IS COM
monty believed to be comparatively
harmless habit, there is grave danger
of fastening a pernicious drug habit
upon the user. Examples of prepara-
tions of this character recently examln-
ed and found to contain cocaine and CO.
caine derivatives are Coca Bola, Tobac-
co Bullets and Wonder Workers.