The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-01-20


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BY all odds the nearest approach to
casing weather since last seasons crop
cured came the latter part of the week.
At the start conditions were apparently
ideal, for heavy fog enveloped every
thing and continued long enough to
bring the hanging leaf into suitable
case but for the temperature which all
the time hovered near the freezing
point. Just a few degrees warmer
would have brought the leaf into pill
able condition so that the crop could
have been quickly removed from the
sheds. But the leaf did not lose its
huskiness and the result has proven a
great disappointment to growers who
are now more than ever anxious to get
the work of stripping off their hands
and the crop delivered. Some farmers,
however. were able to take down
small portion of their crops even though
the tobacco was hardly in satisfactory
condition.
A decision Of the Kentucky court of
appeals recently made is of interest to
tobacco growers, which holds that abb
solute control of tobacco crop is sur
rendered when the farmer pools his
tobacco. In other words, when the
grower has once signed pooling CON-
tract he cannot change his mind and
conduct sale Of it himself. This seems
to be the law as outlined by the court
and it is well enough to keep these
facts in mind. The growers of this
state, however, very generally prefer
to control the selling of their own pros
ducts.
meeting of the American Society
of Equity, held at Bowling Green, KY,
last week, resolution was passed re-
questing congress to place manufacture
ed tobacco under the provisions of the
pure food bill, and still another to re-
Quire each collector of internal revenue
to publish each quarter the amount of
tobacco used for manufacturing pur-
poses.
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Papers have been filed in Albany, N.
Y, Incorporating the Cuba-C Connecticut
Tobacco Co., a newly organized concern
with a capital stock Of $500, 900, who
viii grow tobacco under shade. The
incorporators of the concern are E. H.
Smith of Springfield, Mass; Frank Pull
yer of Yonkers, N. Y; Arthur E. Hol-
brook of Feeding Hills, Mass; Ariel
Michaelson of Tariffville, Conn.,, and
John B.. Stewart of Windsor, Conn.
The concern will take over the tobacco
farm of E. III. Smith, between Spring
field and Hartford, and will grow in the
coming year about 100 acres under
shade and probably $50 acres unshaded.
The farm consists of about 600 acres,
including considerable woodland. The
American Sumatra Tobacco Co. have
secured a large acreage in Connecticut,
and will have several hundred acres
under shade in the coming year. d. A.
Shaw, who has been in charge of the
concerns growing operations in Flor
ida, will move to Connecticut and take
personal charge of the growing opera
ftions there. Mr.. Shaw arrived in New
York last week. 1t is announced that
process of formation, the purpose OF
Il k< - 4<h dnrs
shade in Connecticut.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
being wasted annually in the tobacco
trade on fire insurance, which does not
insure, according to Mr.. Frazier NJ.
Dolbeer, who constitutes the insurance
committee of the New York Leaf To
bacco Board of Trade and of the Ma
tional organization. Mr.. Dolbeer has
plan almost ready for public unveiling,
which, he says, will save this waste.
The details cannot yet be given, but
the main difficulties having been sur
mounted, both the irrepressible sin
surance committee of one and other
shrewd trade members who are in the
secret do not hesitate to prophesy sue
cess for this new campaign against IN
surance waste. The trustees had just
listened to Mr.. Dolbeer's report of his
appearance before the Legislative COM
mittee and the concessions granted by
the insurance companies just about that
time. Mr.. Dolbeer said pretty frankly
that the insurance people had come
down simply because the punitive in
crease could not be justified. That was
the long and the short of it. There
comes time in the affairs of every
thing when justification becomes para
mount The punitive increase from
June, 1906, "paramounted'' while the
Legislative committee was on the probe.
Mr.. Dolbeer did not put it that way
but when his reference. was worked out
by the rule of three that was the pro-.
duct. And then came the promise to
''Brandeise'' the insurance expenses OF
the trade. 1--WE have" said Mr.. Dol
beer, "a plan almost ready for submis-
sion to this organization which will
cover the entire industry from the
grower to the manufacturer and whole
sale merchant handling tobacco and CT