The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-04
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES


:..s..:..: !. :.:.:
While the season has been exception
ally favorable to the shed curing of the
tobacco crop, we have had our first
hard freezes during the week severe
enough to enter most of the curing
houses 50 that if there were any un-
cured leaf or stems in the late harvest
ed crop they are quite likely to show
the effects of the frost. Under ordi-
nary conditions the crop would be en-
tirely out of danger from this source,
but there was good deal of late to-
bacco this season going into the sheds
nearly month beyond the usual time
of harvest and it would be almost a
miracle if it should be entirely cured
out by November 1st. The early por
ton Of the crop is so well advanced
that it might safely be taken down for
stripping any time now after a season
Of casing weather.
IS
The use of trading stamps used to
stimulate sales of merchandise was
given black eye through decision of
the courts in Washington recently. The
objection of the court is where third
party steps in and undertakes to stim-
ulate trade principally for its own bene-
fit, diverting to it's own Golfers large
portion of the cash discount. Should
such an association be formed Of mer-
chants for the purpose of giving cash
discounts it is probable it would be held
to be legal. In this case the principal
parties interested in such discounts
were men who had nothing to sell and
who bought nothing but who preyed on
merchant and customer alike.
***
The crisis in the Tampa cigarmakers
strike has been successfully passed, and
before long the factories will again be
as busy as they were before few dis
gruntled agitators reused the operatives
to take the most disastrous step they
have taken in the history of that city
as cigar manufacturing center. The
leaders of the strike movement, though
unwillirs to2dmit their defeat, found
themselves powerless when the citizens
rose in their might and determined to
put an end to the disgraceful strike,
which, to its many horrors, is added
that of murder.
The state bank examiner of Ken
lucky is of the opinion that the break
ing up of the pool in the White Burley
district will make business hum in the
counties where the pool, would have
been effective. The pool kept the
money of the growers tied up and the
banks strapped for funds. The money
paid to the growers through the sale of
the tobacco will be put into circulation
at once, and the banks for the first
time in three years will have money to
lend to legitimate business enterprises.
**
The American Tobacco Co., which
has immense warehouses and factories
at Richmond, Va, has purchased 25
acres of land on the outskirts of South
Richmond, upon which the largest to-
bacco warehouse in the world will be
erected in the near future. The cost
of the building and its dimensions could
not be learned, but both will be i'm
mense. There was sharp competition
between Virginia tobacco centers for
the location. Enormous quantities of
leaf tobacco have been bought by the
company, which will be housed in the
| new plant.
Farmers within the Essex county,
Ontario, tobacco belt will reap rich
harvest this year from competition
between two rival companies which are
| trying to buy in the crop and have
forced prices up to the highest market
known in years. Buyers of the Domin-
| ion Tobacco company and the Imperial
Tobacco company have been calling on
| the farmers for some time, and as the
| two companies have been bidding
against each other the price has gone
up to IL and 18 cents, while some of
the growers believe that it will event
| ually 90 as high as 20 cents per pound.
at the rate of Is cents. and this was
considered unusually high In former
years the price has been as low as 6
cents. The crop this year is considered
quite as good as last, and the growers
will receive more thar half million
dollars for it Tobacco World.
Reviewing the records of the past
year or two, the tobacco trade is moved
| to inquire with some trepidation: What
is going to happen next?' Surely the
| assortment of hard luck that has been
handed to the industry of late is wide
and varied. Short crops of Havana to-
bacco year after year, the tarif up
heaval last summer, which resulted in
the admission of Philippine cigars end
tobacco free of duty, the cyclone which
| laid waste the Kew West cigar factories