The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-03-17
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looks as if the present season would
witness that before the buying finally
ends. Every scattering lot is being
hunted closer than ever before, with
every prospect that there will not be
enough left in first hands to s'wad a
gun to say nothing of stimulating any
trading during the summer months.
Even now it is believed there is more
old leaf ranging from '06 to '09 than
there is of the 10 crop in growers
hands unsold. 1t looks like long sum-
mer vacation ahead for local tobacco
dealers.
The American Tobacco Co. appears
to be doing quite well judging from the
reports submitted at the recent annual
meeting. This big trust, which is the
holding company for all the subsidiary
concerns, including the American Cigar
Co., American Snuff Co., Havana To-
bacco Co. and host of smaller con-
Germs, claims to have made total sales
of over 1O2 million during the year at
profit of about IA per cent after all
charges for interest, expenses OF man.
agement, etc., are deducted. After
the purchase and cancellation of nearly
a half million of bonds, meeting all In
terest charges and dividends on pre-
ferred stock, a 80 per cent dividend on
It's common stock was paid and then
carried over surplus of over so million
dollars to the new year. The Havana
Htnho fhp
lame duck of the concern which was
operated at a loss of $500, 600 for the
year. The showing is considered re-
markable for corporation claiming
assets of nearly 800 million dollars. Nor
is it any wonder that the common stock
is quoted at $470.
/ Mr.. w. L. Crump, Chicago leaf deal
er, writes us concerning the printing OF
tobacco so successfully established in
New England: What is known as
printing or picking tobacco is new
way of harvesting in this country, es
pecially Connecticut, and this has met
with unqualified success. The last three
years there has been practically no
regular cut tobacco that yielded wrap
pers, whereas of the picked tobacco a
large percentage were good wrappers.
It has now been thoroughly tested be-
fore the cigar making public from
Maine to California and has grown in
popularity wherever used. The writer
is firmly of the opinion that Wisconsin
can produce large amount of fine
quality and good colored wrappers by
this mode of harvesting; in fact, there
ought to be enough raised to wrap at least
two billion cigars. The tobacco that is
now largely exported for cutting into
making scrap tobacco would make good
wrappers. In no instance has any crop
of Connecticut that was picked shown
any damage from must, which you
know is very expensive thing to the
Wisconsin farmer, packer and dealer,
as the loss on this score is tremendous.
Owing to the increased price the farm
er is able to get for his crop, he could
very we'll afford to more literally fer
tilize his soil and we would like to urge
upon you to use your influence with
your legislature and your state depart
ment of agriculture to try number OF
experiments on the crop of tobacco that
you will grow this year.
~
The Hartford Courant in recent is
sue devoted several columns to an artl-
Gle relating to the shade-grown tobacco
proposition. The article declared that
not less than 1000 acres of shade to-
bacco would be grown in Connecticut
this year, which is 1,5O0 acres more
than were grown last year. Using the
estimate of 1000 acres as basis, the
paper figures that about Is, 900 bales or
2, 400, 900 pounds ought to be produced,
which ought to bring not less than
| So, 900, 900 to the state in addition to
! the old-fashioned sun-grown leaf and
Broadleaf. "'Since the harvest of the
1910 crop there have been number of
changes among the large tobacco grow
ers of Windsor. On December %, 1910,
the Krohn Tobacco Co., who owned q
plantation of abont 200 acres, located
| in the towns of Windsor, Bloomfield,
CRANKY and East Grsnby, sold out to
the Griffin-Neuberger Tobacco Co., and
the latter company is composed OF Fred
B. Griffin of Windsor, Moritz Neuber--
ger, Fritz Lederer, of New York, and
others. The Krohn Tobacco Co. raised
about 125 acres of tobacco under cloth
last year and the new company will IN
crease this acreage to $50 acres TINS
season. The plantation known as west
side plantation belonging to Carlton &
Davis and which is located part in
Windsor and part in Bloomfield has
been leased to Patrick Keefe OF West
field, Mass, and he will grow fifty
acres of shade-grown tobacco and about
100 acres of other grades. Olds q
Whipple will increase their acreage or
shade-grown from fourteen to fifty
four acres. !" Speaking of the Ameri-
can Sumatra Tobacco Co., the Courant
has the following to say: THE Ameri-
can Sumatra Tobacco Co. of New York
will raise 100 acres of the Cuban tobac-
co under cloth this next season on the
old tobacco plantation of the late Al
bert N, Graves on what is known as
the 'Suffield Plains in the southern
part of the town. This farm includes
about 230 acres of land, extending from
the southern part of this town, through
the town of Windsor Locks to the Rain
bow town line. This same company
last year raised 1900 acres OF the weed
under cloth in Florida and this year
| xxy; IN Yoic fbo cop,o oroo,1nf They have