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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26
NEW YORK, Nov. II, 1918.

The local market in domestic cigar
leaf is pretty much as it always is in
the closing weeks of the year Manu-
facturers do not desire to increase their
obligations for this year, and leaf deal.
ers are not especially anxious to post
date their bills. Consequently business
has been of hand to mouth character.
Packing houses are in full operation in
New England, and more are being
opened daily in Wisconsin. The primed
Connecticut Havana Seed is already in
the market, and the first offerings of
force-sweated stalk tobacco will be Of
fered in few weeks. There is a good
inquiry for fancy old thinner Spanish,
but stocks are limited Buying of the
1913 Ohio crop continues, twelve and
thirteen cents being paid for Zimmer
Spanish and ten cents for Gebhardt.
There has been fairly good inquiry
for Pennsylvania of late. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26

Continued on Page 81
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

Packers are arranging to employ un-
usual care in the warehouse handling
OF the new cop this season in the hope
that they may avoid some of the dam
age that in late years has proven seri-
Gus losses. The crop is found to be ex-
ceptionally thin and of such fine tex
ture and when received before freezing
weather has thoroughly cured out the
stems is carrying an excess of moisture
that ought to be eliminated before the
leaf is pressed into the cases. Various
M thods are to be used to accomplish
this purpose according to the different
theories of the packers. One or two
concerns will loosely pack as the to-
bacco comes from the sorting tables
and heat is applied for time until fer
mentation is started when it will be
graded and condensed into regular
packages. Other packers permit two
or three days to elapse after the tobac-
co comes from the sorting tables be-
fore it is tied in hands and packed.
Bulking before packing will also be re-
sorted to by several packers. And still
others will force sweat the crop as fast
as received. After the different lines
of treatment have been tried out we
shall know more about which have
proven the more successful.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26
Business Directory.
Wisconsin Tobacco Statistics.

Tobacco growing began in Wisconsin
80 years ago.
Is counties now produce tobacco.
49, 200 acres were grown in 1912.
Average yield in Wisconsin about
30, 600 pounds.
Brings Wisconsin farmers annual in
come of S. 100000
81, 900 spent annually for handling,
storage and insurance.
EdgertOn has 81 warehouses on inSur-
ance map.
The sixth important agricultural in
dustry in the state.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26

Farmers who have been fortunate
enough to deliver their crops before the
holidays have been able to pull down
some pretty fat returns this season be-
cause of the somewhat extraordinary
heavy yields. When the Vernon county
crop is weighing from 1850 to 1400
pounds to the acre it is an easy matter
to figure, at the prices which prevailed
there, that growers are receiving close
to 5000 an acre for their tobacco Sell
dom has the tobacco of this district
reached any such yield, and when we
consider that the crop the. state over
will run about one size shorter than a
year ago, it can readily be surmised
that the leaf contains an abundance of
moisture this season. It begins to look
as packers are paying for something
BSsSs.s a hundred pounds of moisture to
each acre of tobacco than they would
if the receiving was postponed until
March or April as is frequently the
case in this state The farmer who
was favored with an early crop and
fortunate in getting an early delivery
need not be told 'who gets the money!"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26

There are developing signs of a con-
test in congress between representa-
tives from the tobacco farming districts
and the Wilson administration, as a re-
suit of the Agricultural Department S
reduction in the money asked for to-
bacco Investigations. The cut of over
six thousand dollars out Of an appro-
priation of $31, $50 for the Improvement
of tobacco growing and the methods of
handling tobacco, is being described as
a serious and unwarranted assault on
the domestic tobacco industry. There
are open charges that bias in some
form is the real cause of the decrease,
but even were the offered explanation
cut from the whole cloth the Republi-
can congressman fail to see why the
department shall desert the field work
and devote the funds chiefly for lab
oratory work. Attention is also being
called to the fact that only in the South
where cigarette and smoking tobacco is
produced is tobacco grown largely as a
special crop, while conditions in the
cigar tobacco districts in Pennsylvania,
Connecticut, Ohio and Wisconsin are
different.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-12-26

The internal revenue report for the
calendar year, just made public, is a
computation Of tobacco statistics show
ing slight decrease in the number of
large cigars made over that of last
year, though the total is greater than
any twelve months excepting 1906 and
1911. The revenue derived from to-
bacco taxes amounts to the tremendous
sum of S76, 789, 424. rs for the year. The
number Of cigar manufacturers has
been reduced again during the past
year by 10 from q ,265 in 1911 to 20,-
555 in 1912. The quantity of leaf to-
bacco used in the manufacture of large
cigars amounted to 145, 781, ,078 pounds
and in the manufacture of small cigars
to 3, 909,572 pounds; in the manufac-
ture Of cigarettes to 7,117, Ill pounds
and in the manufacture of smoking,
chewing tobaccos and snuff to $50, 549,- :
373 pounds. Pennsylvania still retains
its supremacy as the largest cigar
manufacturing state with an output of
/, 1862, 400, STA large cigars, being follow
ed by New York with total output of
], $50. .684, 740 Ohio was the third larg-
est cigar producing state with an out
put of 655, ,376, 164; Florida's output
amounted to 347, ,421, 984, Michigan's to
337, 10, 688 and Arkansas had the small
est output, 1850, 637. The average
quantity of unstemmed tobacco used to
make 1000 cigars is 20.69 pounds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
COMMISSION
FORM IS
A WINNER

Commissioner Freeland, after
much delving into the records,
has brought up a lot of figures
to prove the commission plan of
government big winner over the
old councilmanic system.
The tax levy has been IL mills
for all of the commission years
and for the last of the old council.
Prior to the last council year the
levy ran up to as high as l s mills,
but was always above 12.
Besides this, the year the old
council made a 12-mill levy they
robbed the sinking fund of $685.
600 and spent 1t. In addition,
the old council never set aside
anything for sinking fund; the
commission is putting away $780,
600 a year for this.
More than this, the commission
now has several million. extra
bonds to pay interest on which
the old council never had. Then
the commission has paid back en-
gineering rebates stolen from
citizens amounting to over $780,
600 under the old regime.
These and numerous other
things the commission is gradual
ly Strengthening out make a good
for the commission.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
MILL BURNS:
BOY LOSES
HIS LIFE

.By United Press Leased Wire.y J
SEATTLE, March Phillip
Graham, Ia years old, grandson
of o. X. Graham, night watchman
at the Harbor Island sawmill, is
believed to have lost his life when
the mill burned early today.
Young Graham and his grand
father discovered the fire at 1:45
O'Clock and attempted to extin-
guish 1t themselves. When they
saw the fire was getting beyond
their control, the boy was sent to
turn in an alarm, which he did,
returning to the fight. He hag
not been seen since.
The adjoining planning mill and
lumber yards were saved by the
fireboat Duwamish, but the saw
mill was destroyed, causing a loss
of $4,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
BANDITS
HOLD UP
GROCER

The police today are looking
for pair of youthful hold-up
men who last night at 7:30
O'Clock stopped o. J. Heggreness,
grocer, near his place of busi-
ness at 1871 South l street, and
demanded his cash. Heggreness
had just closed his store when he
started for home. One of the
men stepped from the DARKNESS
and demanded that he stick up
his hands. The other searched
his pockets and secured a purse
which was full of receipts, but no
money. The bandits then turned
and fled.
Heggreness returned to his
store and notified the police.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
RECOVER
WOMAN'S
CORPSE
(By United Press Leased Wire.) }

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
OMAHA, Neb., March 1.-Out
of the mass of ice and ruins
which is all that remains here of
the Dewey hotel, destroyed by
fire early yesterday, the body of
woman, burned to crisp, was
taken early today. This ghastly
find makes a known total of six
dead, and estimates of those be-
lieved buried in the ruins still
run from to 20. Former en-
ployes of the hotel say. that not
more than five bodies are still un-
recovered.
The only marks of identifica-
tion on the body recovered today
were earrings and portions of a
fur coat. Some think it is that
of Mrs. Bonnevieu, who is known
to have perished.
The corpse of a man found yes
terday was identified as that of
Penbro Richard of South Omaha.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
GIRL ADMIRES BANGS:
KNOCKS OVER A LAMP:
FIRE LOSS is $4,000

Pride goeth before a fall and
a haughty spirit before destruc-
tion," say the scriptures, and the
first part of it was illustrated
vfvidiy yesterday when a Ruston
waitress turned to admire her
hangs in a mirror and knocked
over a lamp over which she was
heating her curling iron, causing
a fire that wiped out most of the
business section of Ruston.
The loss is $25. .0OO-all due
to one girls admiration for her
frizzles.
The fire started in the Darr
hotel, spread to the Eagle bar
and then wiped out a store ad-
Joining. 1t caught the city hall
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
POLICE CAUSE
Of GIRLS
RASH ACT
(By United Press Leased Wire.1
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.

(By United Press Leased Wire. y
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.
-Despondent because her occu-
patton was gone when by edict Of
the police commission the bright
lights on the Barbary Coast were
snuffed out at midnight, Mabel
DufOrd, dancehall girl, tried
suicide by lysol early today. She
was pumped out at the hospital
and will live.
"I've worked the last job open
to me-" she said after being
brought to. They've closed the
dancehalls, and figured this was
my only way out"
Under the edict of the police
commission, no women employees
are permitted hereafter in Bar
barry Coast saloons where women
summers may go. This, it ID
said, will kill the business or
these places.
Up to midnight the whole
Coast" was one wild orgie to
mark the passing of the old-time
rules.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01

and nothing is left of it.
The pressure of the North
Springs Water company was low
and little headway could be made
hghting the fire. The Smelter
pumps were called on and they
helped save the rest of the town,
but could do nothing to save the
burning buildings.
The roof of the Bay View hotel
across the street caught but the
blaze was put out before it got
good start.
The Tacoma department sent
up chemical and hose cart and
assisted materially in fighting the
fire, which at one time threatened
to wipe out the whole town.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
FR|EOMANNMA
SAVE STEEL
MAGNATE
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
NEW YORK, March First
of all Americans to make personal
test of the tuberculosis serum of
DR.. F. F.. Friedman will be Rob-
ert B. Robson, a Pittsburg steel
magnate, who has been in a Colo
rado sanitarium, but who rushed
here to meet the Berlin discov~
erer.
Friedmann's promise was gain
ed for Robson through interces-
sion by Charles Z. FinIay, the
New York banker who is said to
have offered Friedman 81, ,0OO,-
600 If he could cure 95 out of 100
given cases.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
CITY SIGNS
UP A BIG
CONTRACT

The municipal light department
scored on the Stone-Webster pow
er monopoly yesterday, at least,
when City Electrician Thorn cut
over the good business of the
Olympic Ice company from the
Stone-Webster to the city power.
land signed up a contract with the
company for 110-horsepower of
continuous load.
This is fine contract, and will
run nearly $500 month, the
juice being used "a hours a day
by the ice company.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
Woodrow Wilson
Snubs Head OF
Penn. Railroat

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, March Flat.
refusal to leave a plebeian day
car on the Pennsylvania railroad
to lunch in the private car of
President Samuel Rea of that
system was the jolt President
elect Woodrow Wilson handed out
to the head of the great railroad
corporation.
Learning that Wilson was on
board in the day coach, President
Rea sent him an invitation to
take luncheon in his private car.
wilson declined and remained in
the day coach playing with
Frank and Clara Greenwood, two
children from Northbeth, N. ].
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
$4,000 GO BACK
TO THEIR WORK

NEW YORK, March 1.-Seven-
ty-five thousand clothing workers
who struck here Dec. 80 resumed
work today, the unions having
compromised their closed shop
and wage demands, but having
won their demand for better sani-
tary conditions and for the aboli-
tion of the sweatshops.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
CONSIDINE IS
TO APPEAR
my United Press Leased Wire. !,

fBy United rrcss Leased Wire.
SAN FRANCISCO, March L.
The local police were advised to-
day by Attorney Tom O'Connor,
representing John Considine, the
atrical magnate, for whose arrest
a warrant has been issued by
Police Judge Deasy charging that
he had taken part In the per-
suasion of inmates of disorder
ly house to perform an immoral
exhibition, would surrender HIM
self next Tuesday when the case
Will be called to be set for trial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
EUROPE SPENDS
MILLIONS ON
SKY FLEET
IBy United Press Leased Wire. ,

lby Umteu PreSS Leased Wire.
LONDON, March 1.-The Euro
pean sky fleet now numbers ASP
aeroplanes, besides dirigibles, ac-
cording to the latest statistics
compiled by the British war of
flee. France has expended $4,-
100000 on aeroplanes, has 290
airmen and 1000 machines. Ger
many has spent $3,750,0O0 for
aeroplanes, and has $50 airmen
and $50 machines. England has
spent $1,500,000, and has 80 air.
men and Al machines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
MINER
FOUND
DEAD

Robert Snyder, aged 81, miner,
went to the Abbee house, 1741
South ID street, at o'clock last
Wednesday and rented room.
That was the last seen of him un-
til a chambermaid discovered his
body last night at 6 o'clock in his
room. After an examination,
Coroner Ashton determined that
the man died of natural causes.
The remains are at Hoska- Buck
ley-King's pending funeral ar
rangements. Snyder worked in
the Enumclaw mines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
SKOOKUM JIM'S
DAUGHTER'TO
GO ON STAGE
(By United Press Leased Wire,

SEATTLE, March daisy
Mason, daughter of Skookum Jim,
Alaskan Indian of Klondike fame,
who is here with another tale of
a new strike, is going on the
stage. Miss Mason, who will
have $4,000 all her own when
she is 21, is studying here now.
When her guardian, an Episcopal
bishop at Victoria, heard of her
intention last week, he threatened
to cut off her allowance.
Go ahead and cut" she said.
Il should worry;- papa is here"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
RECOVER BODIES
OF 18 MINERS

Iby UWttU f~Ftss LeASeU Wfrc.1
HOBART, Tasmania. March 1.
-Pitiful scenes occurred at the
North Mount Lyell mine today.
when after some four months,
persistent search, Is bodies or
miners who were entombed Octo-
Der ~ last were brought to the
surface and scores of mothers or
widows gathered at the top of the
shaft to claim the remains OF
some past dear member of the
family.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
CAN'T SEND
LIQUOR FROM
WET To DRY
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.J
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March
1.-The house today passed the
Webb bill, prohibiting the ship
ment of liquor from wet to dry
states, over President Taft's veto,
by a vote of 244 to 95. AS the
senate also overrode the presi-
dents veto yesterday, the bin
now becomes law.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
Cardinal Objects
To Women Hikers
'(By United pr

(By United Press Leased Wire. J
BALTIMORE, March 1.-Flat
denial that he favors woman suf-
frage or that he applauded the
march of General" Rosalie Jones'
hiking army on their way to
Washington was made here today
by Cardinal Gibbons. In fact.
the prelate said he was sure the
hike had not helped the suffrage
cause.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
TAKEN AWAY, GIRL SEEKS DEATH
SEEKS
DEATH

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
TRUCKEE, Cal, March l.
After instantly killing his six
months-old baby by cutting it's
throat with a razor, Joe Casponi,
an Italian laborer, gashed his own
throat and is near death here to-
day. 1t is supposed he went sud-
denly insane.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
IT'S ALL OVER
(By United Press Leased Wire.

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
MEXICO CITY, March 1.-The
last serious revolt against Provi-
sional President Huerta, except
that in Sonora, is believed here
to have ended today with the sur
render of Alberto de la Fuente,
the governor of Aguas Calientes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
SIS FOR l CHILD

BERLIN, March LIT cost
Berlin $2S for each child in
school last year. exclusive of the
maintenance of the buildings and
teachers salaries.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01
STRIKERS TESTIFY

(By United Press Leased Wire. !,
AKRON, o., March Thirty
strikers from the ranks of those
who are out here to enforce a
demand for better pay and work.
ing conditions in the big Akron
rubber mills, testified today be-
fore legislative committee
which is probing the causes OF
the strike.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01

For Tacoma and vi
cinity: Rain tonight
and Sunday.
For Washington:
Rain west tonight
and Sunday; rain or
snow east portion to-
night or Sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-03-01

= NEW YORK, March H. . Z
2 Tho stock market opened :
. dull. !
o o4~ . . .
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-03-20
||II POULTRY
|S1.,Y.SsJ%.I.SZJI
l% ~. XII
COMBAT POULTRY YARD FOES
Some Essential Measures Outlined by
Expert PouItrymen for Control OF
Insect Parasites.

Insect parasites are the cause OF
great deal of annoyance and loss to
poultrymen. Some essential measures
as outlined by George NJ. Turpin for
their control are:
Have the poultry houses separated
from all other farm buildings.
Have all the interior fixtures of the
poultry houses, such as roost.poles,
nest boxes, feed hoppers, dropping
doardc, etc. removed so that every
part OF the interior can be readily
cleaned and sprayed
Keep a good dust bath to which the
fowls may have access at all times
Of tho day. Common road dust with
fine ashes and powdered sulphur or
air-slacked lime added is excellent.
The road dust should be gathered
during dry weather for use during
the winter.
Spray the coops and fixtures with
a good whitewash twice each year,
adding two pounds of salt and one
fourth gallon OF crude carbolic acid
to every so gallons OF the spraying
mixture.
Setting hens should have access to
a good dust bath such as mentioned
above. II lice are found later on the
chicks, rub lard in the feathers of
the head and throat, and in bad cases
also under the wings.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-03-20
ONIONS PAY BIG
ON SMALL FARM
On Small Strip of Waste Land
Man Secures Yield at Rate
of 40 Bushels.
(By @. A. INGELsBY.)

Last year | rented for three dollars
strip of waste land so rods long
and 4 rods wide adjoining my house
and planted part of It in onions. |
raised 45 bushels, and the yield was at
the rate of 400 bushels per acre.
sold my crop for 81 per bushel Next
spring | will plant two acres on rent
ed ground. The work is no more than
raising potatoes and the profit will
be greater on account of the less
cost of seed. | bought my seed with.
out any special recommendation to the
seedman, and 1t grew fine, large
onions at the rate OF 400 bushels per
acre.
On this land | can only get a yield
of 100 bushels per acre of potatoes,
therefore. the onions are much more
profitable. One of my neighbors sent
to a reliable seed house for his onion
seed. and although he got a fine start
and over 300 bushels of onions. they
grew double and began TO rot as soon
as ripe, and he had to sell them at a
low price in order to avoid a total
loss.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-03-20
HEN MANURE AS FERTILIZER
Has Greater Value Than Any Other
Kind Used on Farm-ShouId
Be Well Taken Care OF.

Hen manure as q fertilizer has
greater value than any other fertiliz-
er on the farm. 1t is generally sup
posed by some poultrymen that the
manure will pay for taking care of
the hens, but this depends much on
how 1t is kept. The dropping boards
under the roosts should be kept COW
cred with some absorbent to preserve
the strength of the droppings.
Land plaster or South Carolina rock
Is good. Never use wood ashes or
lime with the poultry droppings The
ammonia or nitrogen would be set
free. and part Of the value OF the fer
tilizer lost. The droppings should not
be applied on growing crop, or COW
cred soil, Use it on corn by putting
handful on each hill at the time of
last hoeing. II should be kept under
cover until used,
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-03-20
SHIPMENT OF BABY CHICKS
Little Fellows May Be Sent Long Dis.
tsnees by Express Without Dan
ger or Discomfort.

One of the most interesting branch.
es Of the poultry business is the ship
ping of baby chicks hundreds, even
thousands, of miles, and yet have them
arrive in good condition for further
growth and development By ship
ping direct from the incubator when
the chicks are one day old, ADVANTAGE
Is taken of that period in the life of
the chicks when nature intended that
they should be without food. and they
can therefore without injury or dis
comfort be sent long distances by ex-
press under any conditions OF climate.
Chicks when first Matched require
neither food or drink. Indeed. such
is harmful. During the first seven
ty-two hours the chicks life is sus-
tanned by the assimilation OF the yolk,
for the embryo chick is developed
from the white of the egg, and just be-
fore Matching the yolk is drawn up
into its system and furnishes all the
food any chick should have for the
first three days of it's life. It is dur
ing this period that chicks can be
shipped as far as express can take
them.