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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, PA, Aug. %

LANCASTER, IA, Aug. rs, 1910.
Reports that have come in from all
sorts of sources, including the members
of the Lancaster County Tobacco Grow
ers' association, and other growers not
members, who made an automobile tour
of the county on August II, make it
plain that the new crop is doubtful
one. This county has had about all the
wet weather that tobacco can stand
without being damaged. What the crop
needs now, and needs badly, is plenty
of sun. The days last week were most
of them cool, and the nights cold.
Without the developing influence of
warm sunshine this crop is going to be
of narrow leaves and of light weight.
Very many fields show up crops of mar
row leaves without bulk, and if the
growers cut before weather conditions
improve, they will have tobacco that
lacks weight.
AS rule the best tobacco is found
along the Susquehanna river, where the
soil is sandy, and there the heavy rains
filtered through and the ground is in
good condition. In that section the
Havana tobacco is practically all cut.
One grower near Washington borough,
Joseph Shultz, has 40 acres of Havana
safe under cover.
Some Broadleaf has already been cut.
Not much, but enough to show that the
growers do not intend letting their
crops stand day longer than they can
help. All of which spells future trou-
BILE for the packer, who is very much
opposed to buying green tobacco.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, WIS, Sept. 8, 1915.

EDGERTON, w WIS., C0pE. D, 1919.
If anything was needed to put final
crimp in the 1915 tobacco crop. it came
with the frosts that practically covered
the state on the 18th and 10Th inst.
The damage sustained varied according
to location and exposure of the fields
and scared and brown leaf can be seen
In almost every township, but the more
matured tobacco has escaped in the
southern districts. Warmer tempera-
ture is prevailing now and it is possible
quite a portion of the crop will be
harvested and much of it without
blemish. Only a small fraction of the
crop is yet shielded and three or four
weeks are necessary to mature great
er portion of it. The question is, will
a late fall permit it?
Only meager reports have as yet been
turned in to show how extended the
damage is. Certain it is that the binder
possibilities of the present crop have
been greatly curtailed. If the early
frosts will be the means of opening up
better demand for cured leaf, the
packers who are loaded up with hold
ings of '13 and IA goods may view the
losses in the new crop as leading to
some degree of recompense.
The present market calls are on small
lot orders, to meet the actual needs of
manufacturers.
The shipments out of storage reach
only about 200 cases to all points since
since last report.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03
New York.
w" \ UA AAs
NEW YORK, Aug.

NEW 1ORk, Aug. 20, 1910.
The leaf market this week saw con-
siderable transactions in Connecticut
Broadleaf. The crowd of out-of-town
buyers were after it and they had to
have it at the prevailing prices, which
were by no means very alluring. For
Connecticut Broadleaf seconds as high
as 35 cents was asked, as those seconds
represented the lightest grade of the
crop and are likely to pass into the
hands of the manufacturers more as
wrapper than a binder leaf. In Ha-
vana leaf there was also noticeable a
stronger movement and some nice lots
were disposed Of. Evidently the re-
ports of the new crop are stimulating
trading in old stock, for all reports
seem to agree now on the shortage of
available leaf in the new crop. Of
Vueltas and Partidos there is likely to
be a scarce supply for the American
market and the suitable grades of Rem
edios are also limeted. The price,
therefore, on these grades has risen
considerably and buyers are turning in
consequence their attention to the old
stocks in the market. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03

o. N. Coon of Harmony is the first
grower to report the completion of his
tobacco harvest, having finished she'd
ding his II acre crop on August 26th,
which he claims is as fine crop as he
ever produced.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

Only once before since tobacco grow
ing became an important industry in
Wisconsin, and that was in 1875, forty
years ago, have August frosts done so
much damage to the crop as on Satur-
day and Sunday nights, the 28th and
29th. 1t was the elimination of one of
the most unsatisfactory growing sea-
sons that growers have ever exper-
fenced. While it is yet too early to
definitely describe what amount of
damage has been done by the freeze to
both corn and tobacco, as one seems to
be about as much endangered as the
other, enough is known to say that ir-
reparable injury has been effected that
means serious losses to the farmers.
Reports reaching us are that the north
most hard, which might possibly elm
mate good share of the tobacco from
market considerations, except for
stemming purposes. This also applies
to the Kickapoo valley, Vernon county
and further north. Even in northern
Dane county many fields plainly show
the markings of the freeze. In other
places on low ground the late and
green tobaccos have been touched
and in occasionally field of nearly ripe
tobacco the top leaves show where
Jack Frost has left his imprint. Low
er Dane and Rock county have escaped
better than any other part of the state,
but after the harvest it can better be
told what damage has been sustained
by the early frost.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03

The official returns of the Internal
Revenue Bureau for the fiscal year end
ing June 80 are made public. These
statistics show decrease in the cigar
output of over six hundred million, or
a loss of 8.5 per cent for the year.
Bad as the showing was for the calen-
dar year 1914, on account of the cigar
productions reduction by about four
hundred millions, the latest fiscal year
which comprises six months of the new
calendar year of 1915 was expected to
show at least some improvement over
the retrogressive movement of our ci-
gar industry. 1t was expected that the
industry would show at least such a re-
cuperation as to wipe out its great
deficit of last year. However, it did
not only fail to even up that deficiency,
but has increased it by couple Of
hundred millions. The past fiscal year
seems to have been for all tobacco in
dustries, with the exception of the ci-
garette industry, very Oppressive
one. For the returns show decline
of over ten millions pounds in the pro-
duction of manufactured tobaccos. Also
a decline of nearly three million pounds
in the output of snuff. Even the out
put of little cigars was reduced by
GA, 529, 720 and has fallen again under
the one billion figure. Only cigarettes
show an increase. The so-called emer-
gency tax has produced from the trade
according to the Internal Revenue fig
ures total of So, 486, 616.36, of which
the retail tobacco dealers contributed
more than two million dollars of the
entire total. The tax on the small man
was evidently the most productive one.
1t is the old story of the masses bear
ing the brunt of uneconomic taxation.
The decrease in the government re-
ceipts from tobacco during the last fis-
cal year amounted to 81, 515, 882. so.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-09-03

That tobacco as we'll as corn does not
mature we'll in cool temperatures, was
never brought more forcibly to the at
tention of the farmer than the present
season. Both are warm weather crops
and it needs the hot warm days of July
and August to put the final finish on
them. Both months this season have
brought US temperatures much below
the normal, so that the harvest has
been delayed far beyond the usual
dates in this latitude The tobacco
fields especially are unprecedently slow
in, ripening. Ordinarily three weeks
after topping will mature tobacco for
shedding, while this season we know Of
fields topped more than four weeks ago
are still too green to harvest. Under
such conditions it is quite likely that
much of the tobacco harvested this
year has been shielded too green. And
if such proves to be fact such tobac-
co will be dangerous crop for packers
to handle, for such leaf is more than
liable to must and turn white in sweat.
Dealers have had plenty Of just such
trouble to contend with in unripe to-
bacco for several years past. So far
as real value goes growers might just
as we'll take chances on the frost as to
shed an unripe crop of tobacco. Buy
ers who invest in such immature leaf
are most surely to be stuck in the end.
The bee., 1915-07-09

to have a tester and test the milk,
while to make use Of the former rule
a person could easily weigh the milk.
A dairy COW should have all the
roughage she will eat. Good, sweet,
well-cured and good roughage. Sllage
is, Of course, a good roughage. II is
a succulent feed and keeps the dairy
COW in good condition during the win
ter months. All farmers, however, do
not have silage. Corn fodder Is a
good feed, but Is dry and a large per
centage of It is wasted, and It is I'M
handy to feed.
IL is a bad mistake to permit a
dairy COW to run through high snow
drifts in the cOrn-stalk field when the
thermometer registers below zero. II
is much better TO haul the corn fodder
home and feed Il on the leeward or
sunny side of a barn in a clean place,
or else feed the fodder in the barn.
Shred It and feed It during the win
ter.
In addition, the dairyman should
not forget that the dairy COW should
at all times have free access to salt.
Many cows are lost every fall which
might have been saved II they had had
plenty Of salt before them.
The bee., 1915-07-09

as the average milk production. This
takes into consideration the cost Of
feeds, labor, interest on investment,
maintenance. insurance, taxes, ETC.
When the average milk production per
COW is increased the cost Is decreased
The average cost of distribution is 81
cents per quart, making a total Of
9.75 cents per quart as the cost of
producing milk and delivering II to
the consumer This means that when
milk retails at ten cents a quart the
average producer and distributor is
The bee., 1915-07-09
SANDERS SMALL ENGINE PLOWS

Small Disc Flows for Tractors From Four Eight Horse Power
The development Of the manufacture Of Small Tractors has
led designing light engine pows for that purpose We have
done this in connection with latest and strongest horse pows
The essential points in 1913 type been used
them have been added guiding hitch which similar to
the hitch on our large engine plows.
The low price which they sod and their perfect adaptation
makes them suitable for use with all small tractors.
The bee., 1915-07-09

making little or no profit In the
transaction. Where high-produciqg
cows are kept. and economic methods
Of handling and distributing on a
large scale are employed, the above
figures are greatly reduced, and there
is a fair profit in the dairy business.
However, It is the average producer,
who keeps cows, the increasing cost
OF feeds and labor and the greater
demands for sanitary conditions, that
are contributing to the high prica Of
milk.
The bee., 1915-07-09
FeedIna the COW For MIIk.

Prof. G. Larren Of the South Dakota
State college says that as long as a
COW will return pounds of milk for
each pound increase in the grain, the
additional grain is economically fed.
because the 2 pounds Of milk are
worth more than the 1 pound Of grain.
With the average COW, a COW should
have about pound Of grain for each
pounds Of milk that she gives An
other good rule is to feed as many
pounds of grain a day as a COW gives
butter-fat per week. To make use Of
this latter rule It would be necessary
The bee., 1915-07-09
What Is Your Cow WORTH


The actual selling value Of a COW
a dairy cOw-has been worked out to
a point where the Guernsey Breeders
to present for the benefit Of the far
mer who does not often deal in cows
BY a series of calculations based on
butter fat and butter prices George p.
Grant gets down to these conclusions:
"The value Of any dairy COW, grant
ing she is sound and not too old,
should be based upon her ability at
the pail.
II she produces 100 pounds butter
in year at 80 cents, she is worth sac.
II she produces $50 pounds butter
in a year at 80 cents, she is worth $7S.
II she produces $50 pounds butter in
year at 30 cents, she Is worth sos.
II she produces $50 pounds butter
in year at 80 cents. she is worth
$13S.
If she produces $50 pounds butter in
year at 30 cents, she is worth 716S.
II she produces $50 pounds butter in
year at 80 cents she is worth S198.
"The estimated value and selling
price of a yearling heifer is half that
Of her dam as figured above.
"The estimated value Of a pure bred
COW is four times that of a grade based
on the above figures By this way OF
figuring the $50 pounds pure bred Is
worth $4,000, while the 100 pounds
pure bred is worth 1892. As a matter
Of fact the 100 pounds pure bred is not
worth anything II that is all she is
ever capable of making.
"The estimated value Of pure bred
calf is the average Of the sum OF his
dams record in pounds of butter
taken with the average production In
heritance of the bulls sire; for example
If a well marked and good individual
bull calf is out Of a 400 pound fat
dam or $50 pounds butter, as we have
been figuring, and his sire has two A.
r. daughters whose average record Is
500 pounds fat or 600 pounds butter,
or his dam has a record of 500 pounds
fat, and the grand sire two A. r.
daughters with an average OF 500
pounds fat, and 600 pounds butter,
we add the $50 pounds and 600 pounds
together, divide by 2, and we have $40
pounds of butter. multiplied by 80
cents give 1852, the estimated selling
price Of the bull calf.
Some animals whose propotency
has been demonstrated are priceless
in building up a good herd"
The bee., 1915-07-09
THE DAIRY

BY d. 4. Hardin, University


Tennessee
1t is a prevailing opinion among a
large number Of people that good but
ter cannot be made on the farm, due
to the fact that the average farm but
ter is of such poor quality However,
this is a mistaken idea, for the farm
is the ideal place to make butter Of
the highest quality. When properly
made, farm butter is just as attrac-
tive as good creamery butter.
To make good butter on the farm
one must begin at milking time, for
clean milk is the first essential to the
production of good butter. This is
the point at which most farmers fall
down, while the creameryman goes
ahead and puts out a good product
The creameryman can take milk (if
delivered while fresh) containing un-
desirable bacteria and add an artifl-
cial culture of the desirable kind Of
bacteria and cause this to OvershadOw
the development of the undesirable
kind. OF course this could be done on
the farm but the quantity Of cream
will not always warrant such,
therefore, It is much better to pro-
duce clean milk which will not need
such treatment. This can be done by
cleaning the cows udder before milk
ing and using partially covered top
buckets to milk in. As soon as pos
sible after milking, the cream should
be separated from the milk and set in
a clean, cool place. II there is no
separator on the farm, put the milk
in deep, narrow cans and keep cool
until the cream rises and is taken
off. "a temperature Of 40 degrees to
so degrees F. is preferable.) When
there is enough cream on hand for a
churning, mix 1t up well and keep at
a temperature of 20 degrees to rs de-
grees f. for 10 or IL hours before
churning. This gives time for the
ripening process, which is complete
when the cream has a clean, acid
flavor. Then we churn at tempera-
ture of about So degrees F in the sum-
mer and so to 81 degrees F in the
winter. A common barrel churn is
the best type to use. II is the easiest
operated and easily cleaned, one of
the requirements of a good churn.
Never use a churn of the type that is
guaranteed to get butter in 10 minutes,
for they will injure the texture Of the
butter and cause a loss that no one
can afford Use a house churn, and
at the proper temperature churn 80
to 40 minutes or until the particles
of butter are about as large as wheat
grains, then draw of the butter milk
and wash the butter, in the churn, by
adding a bucket of water (tempera-
ture about the same as that of the
cream and revolving the churn two
or three times. On the average we
would add salt at the rate Of OF. per
pound of butter, and work the butter
until the salt is well distributed
throughout. Always be careful not to
work too much, for overworking in
juTes the texture. When the salt is
added or preferably just before the
churning is started, vegetable coloring
may be added at the rate Of 1 OF. per
100 pounds of butter. The market re-
quires this color and 1t is not in
furious. Butter that is handled in
this way then made into brick-shaped
prints and carefully packed will bring
good price at any time.
The bee., 1915-07-09
rhe Cost Of ProdueIna MIIk.

The people Of cities who complain
about the high price of milk may be
interested in knowing what 1t costs to
produce and distribute good, market
able milk. An investigation made last
year by the dairy department Of the
College Of Agriculture, Ohio State Uni
versity, shows that the average cost
of producing a gallon Of milk in Ohio
is % cents, or 6.25 cents per quart, al
lowing 5000 pounds per COW per year
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17
A Good Days Work.

Governor Willis did an excel.
lent days work for the state OF
Ohio Saturday. He chopped in
the neighbOrhood of $3.50. OOO
from the appropriation bills pass
ed by the General Assembly al
the session which recently came
to an end. Governor Willis was
elected on a platform proiaising
an economical administration Of
the affairs of the state. From
the day of his Inauguration he
has sought to carry out that
pledge. His action on Saturday
was in accordance with his pre-
viOus record and was not unex-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17

pected. He clearly realized that
the only way to cut the extrava-
giant bill for state government
was to get rid of an army of un-
necessary employees and to abol-
ish the various and sundry COM
missions through which James
M. Cox sought to perpetuate his
power IN the state house.
1t is worthy of note that Cox
also was elected on a platform
promising economic administra-
tion of state affairs. The differ
ence between him and Willis is
that the former believed he could
fool all the people all the time if
he could get a machine which was
large enough. The latter real.
ICES that a broken pledge to the
voters of the state is a serious
handicap in succeeding opera.
tons and that the only way tt
play the game of politics is with
the cards on the table and IN be-
half of the taxpayers.-C
cial Tribune, Cincinnati.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17
Your Cough Can be stopped.

Your Cough Can be Stopped.
Using care to avoid draughts,
exposure, sudden changes, TAX
ing . treatment of DR.. Kings
New Discovery. will positively
relieve, and in time will surely
rid you, of your Cough. The first
dose soothes the irritation, checks
your Cough. which stops in a
short time. DR.. Kings New
Discovery has been used success
fully for IS years and is guaran-
teed to cure you. Money back if
it fails. Get a bottle from your
druggist; it costs only a little and
will help you so much. ADV
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17


At the close of business for the
week ending June s. the govern
ment's expenditures had exceed
ed receipts to the amount of
$129. 73S. GAIL. The balance in
the treasury was SIG, 457, ,498. 20,
as compared with a balance of
$lS6, 1861, 996.s4 on the same date
in 1918. before Democratic reve-
nue. and appropriation laws had
taken effect.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17

The General Assembly has been
deliberate in all it's work. It has
striven for sanity and safety. It
was not bossed by big business
or made afraid by labor. 1t has
endeavOred to be fair to both.
The complaints due to the disap-
pointment of the passing day will
soon be forgotten. Marion Star.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17
Constipation Causes Most

Ills.
Accumulated waste in your
thirty feet of bowels causes alb
sorption of poisons, tends to pro-
duce fevers, upsets digestion.
You belch gas. feel stuffy, irri-
table, almost cranky. It ISM:
you-it's your condition. Elimi-
nate this poisonous waste by TAX
ing one or two DR.. Kings New
Life Pills tonight. Enjoy a full,
free bowel movement in the NOR
ming you feel SO grateful. Get
an original bottle, containing &c
pills. from your druggist today
for 25c. Adv
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17
Another Congressional
Blunder.

The charge of inexcusable care
lessness in the enactment of an
important statute has again been
sustained against the Democratic
administl alton.
The error occurs in a statute
directly affecting the safety of
human lives. The safety at sea"
act, passed to promote the well
fare of American seameu" and to
prevent if possible a repetition of
the Titanic steamship disaster,
with its appalling loss of life a
little over three years ago, failed,
to clearly fix the date it should
become effective. Two different
days were named for enforce
ment, one four months later than
the other.
Section IA of the act revises
the regulations regarding life
boats, life RATS, life belts and
similar equipments for prevent
ing loss of life in case of acci-
dent, and declares that the regu-
lations must be enforced and O.
beyed ION and after July l, 1915,
on steamers navigating the ocean
or any lake, bay or sound of the
United States"
Section 18 of the same act cor :
tains asquarely contradictory pro-
vision, declaring that this act
shall take effect, as to all vessels
of the United States, eig ltmonths
after its Lassage, ETC..
Two conflicting opinions have
been rendered by legal officers of
the administration on this stat
ute. The Solicitor of the De-
partment Of Commerce first found
July l, 1915, as the date Cong
ress intended the law to operate
as to American vessels. The at
torney general reversed this o.
pinion and ruled that Congress
intended November 4, 1915, as
the time for enforcement,
When the Titanic sank and car
ried so many hundreds to an oc-
can grave, the world was shock
ed to discover the inadequacy of
laws the enforcement of which
would have greatly reduced the
number Cf fatalities. There was
a universal demand for the i'm
mediate enactment of better laws
to safeguard ocean travel.
1t is shocking now to find that
in the statute enacted in response
to this demand there is an error
that leaves in doubt the time of
its operation, and has made it
necessary for an Individual rath
er than Congress to determine
when the law shall be enforced.
A blunder of this type is mon
umcntal. In all parliamentary
procedure it is elementary that a
definite date for the enforcement
of law is practically as import
ant as the signature of the pres
idenG. Combined, the two con-
~
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17

The threat of Mr.. Finley tose-
cure a referendum of the laws
taking from the governor the
power to assess the taxes and
control the issuing of licenses is
not likely to be carried out for
they were the two most prOmin-
ent issues in the campaign which
Democracy recently lOst.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-17
PaIestlne.

The Teaford reunion was well
attended last Sunday. relatives
being present from Greenyille,
EAnsonia, New Madison, Glen
karn, Ohio. Richmond and Lynn,
Ind. The dinner was a royaI
feast.
Albert Shields and family Wis.
tied relatives near Hamilton, O. /,
over Sunday.
7. J. Wilson and wife, and o.
V. Metzcar and wife motored to
Richmond, Ind, last Saturday.
Nearby points of interest were
also visited.
P. J. SayIOr and wife visited at
COletown last Sunday.
We are informed that Fairview
will have Children's Day exer-
cises on next Sunday evening.
Union City is to have a Farm
ers' Day on Thursday, June "a.
June IA. FRoM PALESTINE.