Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-02-15
Anew REAL Top.NorcRERs
Many Make Good in Money Returns and
Otherwise in Tobacco

The general supposltlon that there
were to be no really valuable returns
in the fields of tobacco culture last sea-
son in this section, is being controvert-
ed by facts and returns just now. when
good sized checks are handed out to
growers. Deliveries have been thick
and fast for some days past, and but
for the rrsSvorable condition of roads
most of 1910 crops would be in local
warehouses. Shipments to other points
in bundle is less than in any previous
year.
While there is manifest shortage in
acreage some fine crops Were grown
last year and money returns are good
for many. We take note of some of
the choice holdings and financial returns
made at the Eckhardt warehouse in
this city during the past week, and we
doubt no. there were as favorable re-
turns at other packing houses: Ed
Mundstock of Genoa, acre, 1905
pounds, $3.50; Mary Vegland of Genoa,
2 acres, 2,463 pounds, $305. 10; A. E.
Mason of ViroQua, acres, 4,S46
pounds. $4S3 05; Chss. E. Suffer of De-
Soto, acres, 1885 pounds, $500 20; o.
j. Buraas of Webster, acres, 6,957
pounds, $Sl4.S0: Buraas Bros. of Web
ster, 16 acres, 20,666 pounds, $1,000:
Gunery Bros of Franklin, z acres, s.
1888 pounds, 81, 1861.
Ara j. Favor of Jefferson sold and
delivered to F. j. Goldman, the Madison
dealer. his crop, and it brought him
fully S225 per acre, selling at II and 4.
At the Pretzfeld warehouse nine car
loads of Connecticut tobacco have been
received and stored. This will not be
sorted and cased till after the native
stock has been worked up. They are
using thirty-five sorters and expect to
make long season of it.
At Rekkedal's fine house four car
loads rived from Gays Mills, where
farmers delivered their crops Here
fifty hands are employed and twenty
five to thirty cases are sorted and pack
ed daily. They had big day Of deliv-
cry at Bekkedal's Viroqua and Westby
houses last Saturday.
w. d. Dyson, manager at Eckhart's s,
tells the CENSOR that they have been
short of sorters. He goes to Stoddard
and Genoa to take in the crops pur-
chased in those sections. 1t will be
shipped here by rail.
The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter says
of conditions in that center of tobacco
growing:
Buyers are again riding the growing
districts quite thoroughly and quietly
gathering up the unsold remnants of
last seasons crop. Prices seldom reach
the top figures paid earlier for select
ions and the bulk of the sales range
between the 6 and cent mark. Growers
however, try to hold for a round price
as it is a sort of established basis at
which most of the crop has been sold.
Old leaf continues to move only in mod
crate sized quantities to meet manu-
features demands.
Saturday was the largest delivery
day in this market so far this season,
when upward of 100000 was paid out
to growers. Warehouse handling is
getting well organized and business
commencing to run smoothly There il
plenty of help for those n operation.
Explanation Proposed Delivery System
For the benefit of few who have q
mistaken idea about the new delivery
system, it may be well to offer few
facts for publication.
Goods will be delivered at your door
three times daily -four if necessary
which will necessitate a systematic
mode of ordering to take the place OF
the promiscuous one new a settled ha-
bit with the majority. System is con-
dition that we know benefits any COM
munity or household and condition to
which no honest, thinking person will
object. Why veto what we have nc
real understanding of because it is a
new idea to our community? Surely
we ought to be ready to grasp anything
new that is an improvement on the old
and has been demonstrated success In
many sister towns.
The present cost for delivering the
groceries in tde city of Viroqua is esti-
mated at approximately $1,000 annual
ly. By tie new general delivery system
the same goods can be delivered to all
parts of the city at cost of 81, 600, a
saving of 81, 400. Who has to pay this