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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN. WIS.,, Nav ID. 1915.

EDGERTON, Wis, May IA, 1915.
At the present there is no visible ef-
fort being made to take over what few
remnants of the 1914 tobacco crop that
remain in country hands. Aside from
the work yet to be done in the ware
houses the local markets have begun to
assume a summer quietude. There will
be warehouse handling for some few
weeks yet, when stemming will be car
ried on more extensively.
There is nothing about the market
for old leaf to furnish much encourage
ment to the holders of these goods and
unless business of the manufacturers
picks up little hope that the new crop
will prove ready seller. Everything
in the leaf business seems to be done
on a small order basis these days.
The plant beds for the new crop seem
to be coming along about as rapidly as
is desired, though warm rains would be
welcomed to relieve the work of fire.
Quent watering of the beds.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 200 cases and six cars of bun
dies for the week to all points from
this market.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
New York.
NEW YORK, May 3, 1915.

The chief feature in the leaf market
this week was the rapid movement of
the new Sumatra importations. The
manufacturers were principally after
the fancy lots which were picked out
and contracted for in spite of the rul-
ing high prices. 1t seems that the light
colored marks were in greater demand
and that they found the easiest buyers
regardless of price. The movement in
this respect was SO strong that nearly
all the fancy lots of the first two in
scriptions are disposed of already. The
rapid buying of these fancy lots fore
stalls the need of our cigar industry for
light colors in wrapper leaf. 1t seems
to indicate also that manufacturers are
not strong of belief in a continuation
of a similar supply from the coming in
scriptions. In the s~edleaf market
lull seems to have set in except for
limited supplies for immediate use. In
the Havana market the stir of the past
few weeks seems to have subsided also,
as it is reported that the market is we'll
nigh cleared Of second capaduras which
were in chief demand. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
PREPARING TOBACCO. FIELDS.
BY James Johnson, Agricultural Experiment
Station of the University of Wisconsin.

BY James Johnson, Agricultural Experiment
Station of the University of Wisconsin.
eff you would succeed in the grow
ing of tobacco see to it that your field
is we'll prepared to receive the plants. J"
This is one of the first things which
an experienced grower would say if
asked for advice on the raising Of this
crop. And more than likely he would
agree that the most important points
to consider after selecting the field
would be how best to supply the soil
with the needed fertility and what
methods 10 follow in order to conserve
the most soil moisture.
Stable MANURE should be applied
either the fall before or early in the
spring. Light applications Of animal
manure are of little value for the early
growth of the crop. On the other hand,
commercial fertilizers, applied shortly
before transplanting, will on most soils
give the plants a fine start.
Tobacco soils should be plowed either
in the fall or else early in the spring.
The land should be disked or dragged
occasionally to conserve the moisture
and kill the weeds. Neglecting tobac-
co soils until late in May means a loss
loss of fertility, growth of weeds, and
more trouble from cutworms.
If farmers could find the time to fer
tilize and plow their tobacco soils earl
ier Inn the season considerable time and
labor would be saved.
Shortly before transplanting, thor
ough disking, dragging or planking will
get the ground IN proper shape for the
plants. But it is not best to leave the
Soil rolled or planked down for any
length of time, as this is conducive to
evaporation. Plan to leave a shallow
dust mulch on the surface of the soil
as long as possible preceding and
throughout the growing season. 1t al
ways pays.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
GOOD SOIL WELL FITTED MEANS BETTEl
TOBACCO !

Do not try to raise tobacco on a
heavy clay, a sandy, or mucky soil or
you will not gain the best results. The
value of tobacco depends upon it's quail
ity and this, in turn, is Influenced by
the physical character of the soil. A
sandy loan has proven the ideal soil
for producing an early crop of the de-
sired thin, light colored, elastic leaves.
The black prairie loans, upon which
most of Wisconsin's crops are raised,
are also good soils as they contain
plenty of the rich, water-holding hunus
which requires less cultivation.
The object of preparing the field
in the spring is to have the best tilth
possible: to destroy weeds and insect
larvae, and tend to help the soil retain
moisture for the dry summer months.
Fall blowing is the best agent by
which these results may be obtained,
especially on sod as it turns the ground
up to the action eff the frost during the
winter, and exposes and kills quite a
few of the7weeds and cut-worm larvae.
Spring blowing can be used it it is done
early Late spring blowing causes dire
results if the summer is inclined to be
dry. 1t should be born in mind that
the tobacco field is usually devoid of
any cultivation for nine or ten months
of the year and consequently without
mulch the soil loses considerable water
which could be utilized to very great
advantage later on.
The field should be disced and dragged
after every rain to keep down weeds
and form a dust mulch to keep moist
ure Do not leave the ground rolled
or planked for any length Of time be
fore planting as this condition aids the
rapid escape of moisture. The plant
when it is first set out needs all the
moisture it can get, and should have
good weed-free field so that it will not
have to compete with the weeds for
the fertility of the field.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
New England.
SPRINGFIELD,

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, May d, 1915.
Good progress has been made by the
young tobacco plants in seed beds in
the Connecticut valley the past week.
The shaded tobacco plantations are
practically ready to begin setting out
plants. By another week a consider
able acreage of shaded tobacco should
be actually under way in the fields.
The season is apparently week or ten
days further advanced than last year.
Heavy showers have put the fields in
good condition to receive the young
plants. Little if any transplanting of
sun-grown tobacco will take place be-
fore the middle of the month. Many
growers have plants sufficiently large
already, but the danger of late frost is
not yet passed. Shaded tobacco is inn
mune from ordinary frosts, the tents
acting as protection.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
NEW YORK, May 5, 1915.

Business in domestic cigar leaf con-
tinues steady and quiet The only de-
mand upon the packers is for small
quantities to meet the immediate neces-
stiles of the factories. The domestic
Shadegrown wrappers are in greater
demand than any other type. Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

The United States is the greatest
producer of tobacco in the world and
the greatest exporter, the greatest i'm
porter and the greatest consumer. Our
production of leaf Of all kinds averages
somewhat more than 1000, 900, 900
pounds year, having value to the pro-
ducers of about 500, 900, 900. An enor-
nous quantity is exported-consider-
ably more than third Of the produc-
tion in normal years-for the sales of
tobacco abroad are excelled by only
seven of the many products America
sends to other countries. These to-
bacco exports exceed in value such
items as cotton manufactures, cleo
trical machinery, paper and paper pro-
ducts and leather and leather manu-
factures. The dislocation of the trade
resulting from the war has had it's eff
feet on these tobacco sales, however,
just as it has upon the exports Of many
other items. The sales of unmanufac-
tured leaf have suffered most. and
these sales represent the bulk Of our
tobacco exports.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14
Business Directory.
Wisconsin Tobacco Statistics.

Tobacco growing began in WisconsinE
80 years ago.
Is Is COZ counties nc State h Atn6aeeo.
300 200 acres @a g,S1d IN MS society
$4,000, 600 pounds.
Brings Wisconsin farmers annual in
come of S6, 100000.
81, 900, 900 spent annually for handling,
storage and insurance.
EdgertOn has "a warehouses on lnsur-
ance map.
The sixth important agricultural in
duStry in the state.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-05-14

NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

The April report made. to the bureau
of census under the Cantrill law of the
stocks of leaf tobacco in the hands of
dealers and manufacturers gives Wis
consin 88, ,661, 1888 pounds as against 85, :
TAI, 1867 in 1914 and SO, 763, 722 in 1913.
1t is we'll known fact that the greater
part of the leaf on hand at this date is
stemming stock, but no effort has been
made to separate the grades and the
proportion of binder leaf is therefore a
matter of speculation purely.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
BASEBALL HOODOO
AIDS BRUSH ESTATE
Uncertainty of Making the "Se-
ries" Loses States Appeal
from Appraisal.

The fact that the Giants are not al
ways sure to play in the worlds series
proved an advantage rather than a
source of regret yesterday. Surrogate
Cohalan dismissed an appeal taken by
the State Controller from the report of
the transfer tax appraiser in the es-
tate Of the late John T. Brush, owner
OF the New York Giants.
The contention of the Controller was
that the stock of the New York Base
ball Club was undervalued in the ap-
praiSal. The magnate owned 1906
shares of the clubs stock, appraised at
S265 a share, a total of $34S,702.
The decision read in part:
"The appellant contends that this
stock should be valued at a higher
figure. The principal items on which
the valuation was made were the lease
Of the playing ground and the earning
power of the company. While the earn
ing power for 1910, 1911 and 1912
shows large return, it is by no means
certain, since 1t is made up largely of
the money paid by the public to see the
post-season games. called the worlds
series. The New York Baseball Club
cannot be a certain contender in this
series every year; hence the financial
returns as result Of being a partici-
pant in the series ere so speculative
that they must be entirely left out OF
consideration in analy2ing the earning
power Of the company"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14

1t is unfortunate for me" was the
what is the reason?"
81 have lost my hearing entirely IN
this left ear, and have dry catarrh IN
the other, which is progressive.
"Your marks are the best?
81 have tried 70 make them so.
"You have been absent very little 2
ayes, sir"
could you not remain on until
February ?"
81 could, | suppose, but | tried now
because thought this was the time 70
do so. Last winter. after the colds
had. there was perceptible loss oil
hearing. Another thing, ask for re-
tirement on pension Of $4,000 Ton
that salary, and il that cannot be
granted | will have TO stay longer Tor
| cannot get along on smaller pen
sion, as ! do not purpose TO go into any
other business"
Mr.. Maxwell: 81 do not think that
you can get the benefit Of the increase.
because il is not due until the first OF
Scptcmber. and under the law your re-
tiremcnt must take effect on September
/. If you can remain over until the
first of February, why you could get
it,
81 think will have TO do So"
The board of retirement consists OF
the president Of the Board Of Educa'
ton. the chairman Of the committee on
elementary schools, the chairman OF
the committee on high schools and
training schools. the city superintend-
ent and three members selected from
the principals, the assistants to the
principals and the teachers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
DEAD HE SP0lLS
WIFE'S MOURNING
Letter Carrier, Gone Five
Days, Returns in Midst of
Flowers and Crepe.
WENT TO ROCKAWAY;
AWOKE IN CLEVELAND
Spouse's Plan Wrecked, She In
sists He's Extinct SO Far as
She Is Concerned.

Rip Van Wrinkle was gone twenty
years; Thomas Banta only five days.
The third generation welcomed the we'll
known Rip; there were no cakes and
ale from even the first generation for
Tom.
Banta was ungrateful. His wife had
ordered mourning cards and costume;
his name was written in the family
Bible. Then, yesterday the Jersey
City letter carrier, who disappeared
last Sunday while bathing at Rock
away Beach, showed up again at his
home but not IN it,
"Out!" shrllled Mrs. Thomas Banta.
"Out il is" echoed her spouse.
Thus was Thomas Banta greeted. Up
to a late hour last night ne had not
been heard from. As far as his wife is
concerned he is still dead.
Not even a tale from the ARABIAN
Nights" has anything on the story that
Tom Banta told. Banta related to
Postmaster Ely how he had not been
living happily with his wife and said
that last Sunday he went to Rockaway
for a little peace and a swim. While
he was sitting on the beach-lo! and
behold!-he saw three ironworkers.
Like himself, the three ironworkers
had domestic trouble. Each told his
story and the lot of oil seemed sore
and perplexing. They all agreed to
leave home.
When he awoke yesterday morning,
Banta said, ne found himself in hotel
in Cleveland. He did not recollect how
he came to leave a suit of clothes in
the bathhousc, nor why he had ex-
tracted $40 from the pockets before
vanishing. All he knew was that he
had been waited away as if on Carpet
of Bagdad, and that he was in Cleve-
land.
When he disappeared Mrs. Banta was
sorcly stricken. At o'clock on Sun
day morning she was awakened by the
police. She identified her husbands
clothes and wept and declared how
Good man he was That day friends
sent flowers and expressions Of regret.
Mourning continued in the Banta home
until yesterday, when Mrs. Banta got
word from Postmaster Ely that he had
received a telegram from Banta.
Mrs. Banta was dumfounded. She
told her friends and they regarded her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14

God ought TO give every little girl
two pairs of legs"
That is what fve-year-old Mildred
Sullivan said yesterday, when she
called there form Of infantile
sister Marion, aged four, who took
her first step that morning, after un-
dergoing an operation for what IS
called there form of infantile
paralysis.
Astragalectomy is the name DR.. Al
fred S. Taylor, Of ll5 West Fifty-htth
Street, who performed the operation,
gives it. In plain American it means
he cut into her left ankle, removed part
of the anklebone, which was pressing
on the muscles, and set them free.
That is why Mildred thinks the doctor
is a pretty good substitute for Provi-
dence, for the operation has given her
sister a brand new, ready to wear set
of extremities, where before she had
none that were good for anything.
Marion's first trip yesterday excited
her. She was not at home to callers
not even Mildred. But to-day she
plans to make another speed test
around the Fordham Hospital back
ward course. If this is successful, her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Sullivan,
of 1886 Fifty-fourth Street, Brooklyn,
will take her to Atlantic City Sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
FEAR TRAPS GIRLS
IN BRIDGE WRECK
Hundreds Fight to Escape
Il Train-Brooklyn
Traffic Tied Up.

Five hundred passengers, in fear of
the third rail, fought their way out of
the windows of Bay Ridge train, the
second car of which was derailed yes
terday near the New York end Of the
Brooklyn Bridge.
The accident was caused when an
axle snapped. Then a truck of the Sec
ond car broke and twisted off the rails.
The car with the broken axle was
dragged along the ties, ripping up the
third rail for 200 feet and crashing
into the elevated uprights. Finally the
car fell over and damned itself against
two iron posts.
With the electricity flashing and
cracking, and broken glass falling
about them, the passengers fought
their way out. Hundreds Of men and
women climbed out on the lattice work
next the trolley tracks and ran across
the trolley tracks to the north road
way. IL was estimated that several
hundred thousand persons were delayed
for hours in their attempts TO reach
Manhattan. Service on the bridge was
not fully restored until late afternoon.
The gates at both ends of the ele-
waited structure were closed few min
utes after the wreck occurred. Ser
geant Joseph O'Reilly, of the Bridge
Squad, notified the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company to shut off the power.
This was instantly done.
When the accident occurred some
body in one of the 81" cars screamed
that the passengers would be electro
cuted if they touched the steel WORK.
Many remained in the middle of the
cars, hysterical, until rescued
Those trains which had followed the
one in which the accident had occurred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
While Surgeons Muse Over Name of Disease, Marion
Toddles Happily in Hospital Yard-Soon She Il
Vie with Rompng Brother

There she expects to give the new legs
their first dip in salt water.
Mildred will not make the trip, Dut
she told The Tribune she was mighty
glad to have a girl to play with again.
During her sisters illness her only
companion has been her brother, Wal
ter three years old.
"Sides," said Mildred, hes only
boy, you know"
Two years ago Marion had her first
attack of the trouble. For weeks she
could not move, but later managed to
hcbble around with a twisted foot.
Her parents tried many hospitals,
without success. On July they
sent her to Fordham. On that day
the bore was removed and her leg IN
cased in a plaster cast. Yesterday the
cast was taken off and the ankle
massaged. Then Marion took her first
real, two-legged step in two years.
Doubt as to the Identification
of Marion's trouble as infantile
paralysis was expressed by DR.. A. r..
Dochez. Of the Rockefeller Hospital,
at Sixty-sixth Street and Avenue A.,
an annex of the Rockefeller Institute.
81 don't know the facts in the Ford
ham case" said DR.. Dochez, but
am not aware Of any cure for real
infantile paralysis. Sometimes DIS
placed tendon causes apparent paral-
vsis of a limb, and this can be rene
died By surgery. But real infantlle
paralysis paralysis which is due
to infection-has not yet been cured
to my knowledge"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
AT 81 QUITS TO GIVE
YOUTH, 81, A CHANCE
Jersey Justice Says Winding
His Own Business Is His
Old Age Recipe.

Elizabeth, n. j., Aug. 13.-"Give the
young fellows a chance" said Judge"
Louden, ninety-one years old, in his
court in Linden yesterday as he handed
the gnarled gavel over to eighty-seven-
year-old Peter Bundy, who succeeds
him as a justice of the peace after his
half a century Of dispensing justice.
well, you're a pretty lively young
fellow to be quitting now" replied Pc
ter as he sprang spryly to the bench.
Bundy said he never felt better He
declined to be interviewed as to Row
he had lived so long and was so spry,
saying he minded his own business,
and perhaps that was the reason.
Judge" Louden said he attributed his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14

icily. All her arrangements were
spoiled. But Banta was coming In on
the next train and Mrs. Banta got
ready. -.
the postofice and asked to be rem
stated. Postmaster Ely's countenance
registered 500 degrees below zero.
Just outside the postoffice Banta, met
his wife. She did not swoon, faint,
shrek or yell. For FIVE minutes she
just gave her husband "a piece OF her
mind"
Banta didn't have a chance. He re-
treated. A few hours later he took
courage and applied at the family
cloister for admittance. II he hadn't
Jumped in time, his head would have
received an awful bump.
Mrs. Banta said that Banta had been
pretty good sort of husband before
his disappearance. They have been
married twenty-five years and have
four children. Banta has been letter
carrier for twelve years. Postmaster
Ely refused to discuss the action he
will take.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
CAR LOSES IN BROOKLYN
Germans Carry Boarding
House Trenches.

The capture by the Germans Of the
Russian town of Lukow was the cause
of serious stabbing ARRAY yesterday
in a boarding house at 1872 Wallsbout
Street, Williamsburg.
The boarders are Of many nationali-
ties. One Of them, a German, entered
with an extra announcing the evacua-
ton of the Russian town. AS he gloat-
ed over it the Russian and Polish
boarders began to remark. and in a
minute the war was on.
Joseph Chippench was stabbed,
choked and thrown down a fight Of
stairs. His skull was fractured, and he
was taken to the Williamsburg Hos
pital, where it was said he probably
could not recover. Half dozen others
were slashed with knives, and it took
a squad of policemen to stop the rum
pus.
Peter Blonsky, an Austrian, was re-
manded in the Manhattan Avenue po-
lice court for felonious assault.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
HENNERY VALJEAN
R0AMED IS YEARS
Married and Running Store
When Arrested in Jersey
Mates Went to Prison.

Mineola. Long Island. Aug. l3.-Ff-
teen years ago Isaac Brucker made
false step in his life. He was accused
of robbing Townsend Cookies yard OF
$50 worth of fine chickens. Cooke
who was rich. had him arrested. to-
gether with Frank KarolsN and Max
Fleisher. All were indicted but
Brucker Jumped his bail and fed TO
England and Austria. Six months ago
he came back to this country. Now he
will be tried i'm court, and the fifteen
years of clean living, his marriage and
his family Of six children may all
count for naUght.
Brucker is forty years old now. lie
was twenty-five when the chickens were
stolen. Mr.. Cooke. long dead, was
foreman Of the grand jury, but he did
not sit on the case. Brinkerhoh Myers
headed the body which brought the IN
dictments after James 7. Niemahn,
then District Attorney, but now county
Judge. produced the evidence.
Karolski and FleiShcr paid the pen
atty in prison, but Brucker was not
seen again until he turned u0 in Ne%-
ark six months ago. and worked first
feldt. and then started little store Of
his own at IS Prince Street 1t was
there he was arrested preceding his
eXtradition.
1T is hard" he said. - have not
only led an honest life. but ! am not
guilty. ! went away because | was ad-
vised. but / would not have done so II
/ had thought it was wrong"
Late in the afternoon Supreme Court
Justice Stephen Callaghan had the man
brought to his chambers, in Brooklyn.
and he was released on $4,000 bond
furnished by a security company.
Brucker went home to his family. lie
will be tried at the September term
The witnesses who will appear against
him remember the incidents of the
chicken stealing well. Sentiment is in
favor of Brucker here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-14
15-YEAR CHASE TIRES HER
Stone, Crashing Through Win
dow, Lands Suitor in Court.

"This case will not be settled out OF
court" said Mrs. Catherine Lynch yes
terday, after she had obtained a sum
mons for Howard Sipp, who, she
charged, had annoyed her. Sipp is a
son of George A. Sipp, the former hotel
proprietor, whose testimony before the
Curran committee that he had paid for
protection involved four police inspec-
tors. Magistrate Levy, in the West Side
court, adjourned the case 70 October =.
Mrs. Lynch alleged Sipp had annoyed
her for fifteen yea's, and last Septem-
Der threw a stone through the window
Of her home in West New York. She
said he had followed her, written to her
and telephoned to her.