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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.

EDGERTON, WIS.,, Sept. 8, 1916.
The buying movement has Stacked
away considerably this week, mainly
because only scattering crops remain
unsold. Almost every grower who could
be induced to put price on his crop
has found buyer before this. Men
familiar with conditions in the country
districts estimate that fully 95 per cent
of the tobacco that gives any promise
of reaching the curing sheds is already
under contract. Recent sales, how
ever, hold well up to former figures,
while the late ends continue to bring
from 10 to IL cents straight.
This has been one of the busy weeks
of the harvest and the tobacco is going
into the sheds we'll ripened and in fair
condition, though the farmers are just
fairly we'll started with this work.
Several recent rains have proven
great help to the medium and late
fields, bringing them towards maturity
rapidly. Some of the best tobacco of
the year promises to come from these
quick growing fields that have been
made since the drouth was broken.
Warm weather is assisting in the rapid
curing of the early harvested portion
of the crop.
The most important transaction in
cured leaf of late is the sale of 14O0
cases of old leaf of several years
growth, made by Geo. Rumrill to julius
Marqusee.
The shipments out of storage reach
only about 500 cases from this market
to all points since last report
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
New England.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Aug. 2.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Aug. %, 1916.
The New England tobacco harvest is
at it's height in Connecticut and is well
under way in Massachusetts. Shortage
of labor is proving more serious than
had been expected and many growers
worked in the fields Sunday with as
large a force as they could muster.
The bulk of the shaded crop is under
cover and Connecticut fields are fast
being cleared of the sun-grown yield
Good prices continue to be paid and
Massachusetts tobacco is bringing the
highest figure in several years. Cen
orally speaking the cream of the new
crop has been contracted for.
Hail fell in only few places in the
heavy storm which swept the valley
Sunday afternoon and evening.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
OXFORD WILLIE, WIS, Aug. 80, 1916.

Tobacco buyers, to the number of
half dozen, have been at work in this
vicinity the past week. and have picked
up large number of crops at prices
ranging from 10 to IL cents. While the
price is not as large as is being offered
in the northern and Dane county Sec
tions, the growers realize that the crop
here is not up to the quality of those
in other parts, the lack of rains having
resulted in smaller leaf A good rain
this week would even help lot in pro-
ducing larger leaf Some growers
have given up hope Of any appreciable
growth and have commenced harvest
ing in small way.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
GAYS MILLS, WIS.,, Aug. 20. 1916

The 1916 tobacco crop is without
doubt one of the best that has ever
been raised in Crawford county, and
that's saying something.
We have this information from one
who knows and the prices being paid
bear out this statement Most of the
crop has been sold for from Is to tic
straight and the harvesting will begin
in earnest the first of next week.
a more even stand than this year, and
it is wonderful sight to drive along
the road and view the fields-not a
weed to be seen and every plant per-
feet in shape and color.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
TOBACCO GROWING IN MINNESOTA.

RICHMOND, MINI, Aug. 25, 1916.
Editor Reporter:
I would like to give some 1nforma-
tion to those people who are interested
in the tobacco culture or trade about
our tobacco growing up here IN Mime.
sofa. Some years ago the state Oh
Minnesota made an appropriation TO
employ state expert to advise ana as
sist the farmers who would IKE TO
grow tobacco in this state. AT first
the appropriation was limited TO only
Sherburn county, and as we are iiving
in the adjoining, Stearns, county we
became also interested in tobacco grow
ing and through the efforts OF our
farmer club of Richmond we succeeded
in getting the experts services OF the
state experiment station. NOW we
have been growing tobacco here Tor
the last five wears. We always raised
enough tobacco mere at Richmond to
make up a car load. We have very
fine grade of leaf this year, as we had
favorable weather for the tobacco and
no storm and hail damage at all. The
early planted tobacco is mature already
and some of it is in the sheds. We Will
have fine grade of binder leaf, as the
leaves are very large sized and sound.
A good car load is planted again here
at Richmond and in the vicinity OF st.
Cloud. see that tobacco buying IS IN
full progress in Wisconsin. We have
not been molested yet in any way about
selling our tobacco as we are too far
out of the swim, but it ever buyer
gets astray and visits this territory ne
can obtain as nice lot OF tobacco as
can be found anywhere:
MICHAEL MES.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
1915 TOBACCO For SALE.

I have my 1915 crop of tobacco on
hand, sampled and ready to sell. A
neighbor also has 81 cases of Is. Ad-
dress II. K. TEISBERG.
Cottage Grove, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

AS the great bulk of the 1916 tobacco
crop has been bargained for at remark
ably good prices, it is up to the grow
ers to see that their part of the con-
tract is faithfully fulfilled and deliver
their tobacco in as merchantable condi-
tion as possible This means that the
tobacco should remain in the fields until
it is fully ripened, that it should be
carefully handled in the harvest, the
curing closely watched, taken from the
sheds and stripped and bundled with
the same care as if the crop had not
been sold. The temptation is likely to
be strong this year, the season being
late, To push along the harvest faster
than the fields ripen. The writer has
so often warned growers OF this mis-
take that it hardly seems necessary to
repeat it here. If our farmers could
understand how easily they can spoil
good tobacco crop by cutting it green,
they would be less anxious to rush it
into the sheds whenever the weather
turns cold with indications of impend-
ing frost. If they could know the
losses sustained by packers almost
every year through the harvesting OF
immature tobacco, they would be will
ing to go long way towards remedy
ing this evil. Green tobacco is pretty
sure to damage in the sweating process
and a good deal of the trouble packers
experience comes from just this source.
Where prices are high their losses pile
up tremendously when portion of the
crop goes wrong in the cases. To pre-
vent trouble in receiving the crop it is
we'll to keep constantly in mind that
the dealers will expect growers to ex-
ercise their best endeavors throughout
the harvest and curing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
The
Money
Question

is as much how to keep it as
how to get it. What is the use
of striving to acquire it if it is
going to be a source of worry.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08

Our exports of domestic leaf during
the fiscal year ended June Both last,
amounted to AL, 500, 581 pounds against
an export total of 348, 346, O9l pounds IN
the previous fiscal year or the first war
wear in Europe, showing an increase OF
nearly $4,000, 900 pounds during the
second war year. These figures will
be rather surprising, as it was gener-
ally supposed that the exports OF our
tobacco would suffer heavily through
the embargo laid on them by the Brit
ish admiralty. And this increase took
place in spite of the total absence OF
any importations into the dominions OF
the Central powers and Belgium. The
falling off in the latter exports, how
ever. was more than made up by the
imports of our .tobaccos into the allied
and neutral countries. Importations to
Great Britain increased by 80, 900, 600
pounds, into France by 5000, 600
pounds, into Italy by Is, 900, 600 pounds,
into the Netherlands by 35, 900, 600
pounds, and by several million pounds
into Africa. These enormous figures
prove that, war or no war, the world
cannot get along without American to-
baccos.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08
The First
National Bank

answers the question of how to
keep money perfectly. An ac-
count there means absolute
safety for your cash and free
dom from worry for you. Open
an account and you can give
all instead of half your mind
to your business.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-09-08

Tobacco products in their manufac-
tured form have been greatly increased
during the last fiscal year according to
report Of the federal commissioner OF
internal revenue just made public. The
total manufacture of large cigars dur
ing the IL months ending June 30 was
1890, 900, 900, an increase of 342, 600, 600
over the figures of the previous fiscal
year The increase during the first six
months Of 1916 was much more rapid
than during the last six months of 1915
as the total increase thus far the pres
ent calendar year Of large cigars has
amounted to 280, 100000. The whole
sale cigar leaf tobacco markets have so
nearly cleaned up all available material
that there is little business being done
on large scale. The hand to mouth
trading on the part of those who need
small supplies continues at normal
pace.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
Progress

When l was young l had to 60 and till
the cornheld with hoe. All, it was a weary
work, indeed; paralyzed the noxious weed,
and scraped the dirt around the corn, and
yearned to hear the dinner horn. I'd toll all
day to beat the band, till blisters came on
hoot and hand, and then the husbandman
would say, as he dug up my meager pay,
''Was that the best that you could do? You
must have loafed the whole day through"
And now see the farmers ride on cultivators
tall and wide, that till the corn and slay the
weeds, as they are drawn by prancing steeds.
A hundred freckled lads with hoes might
work all day along the rows, and not achieve
as much, l ween, as would one green and
red machine. The farmers Of these modern
days know naught of old time toilsome ways
they do their labors sitting down, and ride
in choo-choo cars to town; they find the
Doodle growing rank, and have to stack it
in the bank.-Walt Mason.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
Be Independent

The man who is continually begging for
help, and works his friends to the limit, is
a roast, and never will amount to any,
thing in life. Every man should do his
bit. without asking the aid of his neighbours
By continually asking favors you are
certain to lose your standing, and if you
lose your friends in this manner you will
never regain them, for the simple reason
that any person who has any get-up, any
ambition about him at all, despises man
who is continually asking favors.
The man who relies on himself, and
himself alone, is the one who will succeed
and have host of friends, while the help
less, begging. creature will travel the road
to the almsh ouse.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
Submarine Treasure

A boat is now being built to locate sub
marine treasure. The new submarine con
sists of steel sphere, eight feet in diane
ter and capable of carrying two workmen.
1t is designed to be lowered into the water
from tender, but is provided with electri-
cally driven propellers by which it can be
moved about in the water as it hangs at the
end of the cable. One of its essential feat
ures is set of four electro which,
when energized by current from the motors
within the sphere, serve to hold it securely
to the steel hull of sunken ship. Current
for the operation is supplied through a
cable running down from the tender. In
addition to this equipment it will be pro-
vided with electric drills for piercing the
side of the ship, and with powerful search
light for working purpose and for explor-
ing the bed of the ocean when the exact
location of sunken ship is not known
Elk.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
Pass It By

There are great many troubles, and trials
and unpleasant things in this world, enough
to keep one in a perpetual fret and fever and
turmoil, if he will allow himself TO be fretted
by them. But many of them are not worth
fretting about or caring for; they are of little
consequence, and we should pay little regard
to them.
A man says something which is not pleas
SAINT. If we make trouble about it, he will
perhaps repeat what he has said, and say as
much more. If we say nothing, that will
end it. The best course in such case is to
pass 1t by, and say nothing. We shall al
ways have trials, but we need not grow pee
wish, or fretful, or impatient over them. We
can bear more than we have borne. We can
bear more than we think we can bear. Many
quarrel which is exceedingly bitter to-day
will Tomorrow be lost to view. Next year
we shall wonder that we worried or fretted
or were disturbed by the petty trials that
crossed our path. A friend may grow I'M
kind, an enemy may be malicious; never
mind, pass it by. Clouds may be dark to-
day, but the sunshine will come to- morrow,
and the Affections and trials of the present
will pass before the brightness of the days to
come.
Bury the troubles that are past; bear the
troubles of the present; do not worry about
the tronbles of the future. Meet each trial
as it comes, and in majority of cases the
best course will be to pass it by, and leave
it with God.-The Christian.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
AT AN D o N
From our Exchanges
The Mind Feeds at the Mouth

Poor tools can't produce good work.
Wheels and cogs must be adjusted, scews
set, bearings fabricated, edges ground, be-
fore first-class results can be had from any
machinery.
A wobbly lathe wastes more time and
material than the cost of its repair. A spoil
age of an cratic slotter offsets its profitable
performances. Carelessness destroys more
equipment than wear and tear. Neglect is
the silent partner of the junkman.
Men and tools are alike-unreliable unless
keen, clean and true. Success demands fit
ness. Brilliance and shrewdness, training
and dizziness are not enough. The human
being who does not observe regular habits
and exercise control of his faculties cannot
be counted upon in emergencies which de-
mand exactness.
Every man is walking factory-an idea
shop, equipped by nature to execute any
order of ingenuity.
But the wheels won't turn without energy,
the energy won't generate if your system is
out of order. Abused constitutions can't
obey the commands of will.
A clinkered furnace doesn't develope re-
quisite heat for its boiler. A scaly boiler is
a fuel glutton. Both must be clean before
they can do their duty.
Your stomach is your heating plant-your
steam-maker Conoested bowels rob the
brain of its needed blood supply, diverted
by abused organs, straining to create excess
solvents sufficient to dispose of accumula-
ton of waste beyond their normal capacity.
The mind feeds at the mouth. A man
out of sorts betrays it in his thinking. A
distracted brain can't both suffer and con-
centrate. Unclean bodies soon become in
ferior. Personal efficiency seeks the easiest
and quickest ways to the desirable things in
life. But existence itself must be kept desir-
able or it will soon cease to furnish inspira-
ton. Nobody can maintain ambition while
discouraged by physical unhtness.
Your contract for employment calls for
the delivery of a competent machine to be
maintained in proper condition. You be-
long to your job twenty-four hours per day,
and when you carouse, fail to take sufficient
sleep and disregard the basic essentials of
health, it all tells and tattles on you.
Every JOY ride shows on the speedometer.
Exchange.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
S M l LES


That Fred had been permitted to visit
boy friend on the strict condition that he
return home not later than FIVE o'clock.
He arrived at seven to find his mother very
angry. He insisted, however. that he had
not loitered on the way home.
"Do you expect me to believe" de-
handed the mother, ''that it took you two
hours to walk quarter of mile?"
"Yes mamma blubbered the boy
"Charlie gave me a mud turtle and
was afraid to carry it-so led it home"
One of the wealthy members of fash
ionable church in Boston approached her
pastor with the complaint that she was
greatly disturbed by one of her neighbors.
cts positively unbearable,'' said she.
''That man in the pew in front of us de-
stroys all my devotional and pious FEELINGS
when he attemps to sing. Couldn't you
ask him to change his pew"
The good pastor was very sorely per-
picked. After a few moments reflection
he said:
"Well. naturally would feel little de-
licacy on that score, more especially as
would have to give reason. But will
tell you what l might do" Here the
pastors face became illuminated with a
happy thought. 81 might ask him to
join the choir
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
Your Chances

Your chances, if you are not mentally
nor physically disabled, are every bit as
good as those of the other fellow. Don t
complain about the other fellow having all
the chances, for this is not true; chances
are presented before us daily, and it is up
to us whether or not we have the grit and
determination to take advantage of them.
Do not let pride interfere with your
chances. Many excellent chances are pass
ed up simply because we disdain work
which is of tedious nature, and fear ridicule
and failure. But bear in mind that some
of our brightest chances are wrapped in
rough packages and labeled "LABoR ''-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
The Poison of Unkind Words

Many of us who deem our lives irreproach-
able are just as guilty of murder and other
sins as though we thrust knife through
some one or deliberately injured them other
wise.
The unconscious defects in our character
and dispositions, Our little whims, our pet
theories and darling hobbies, when ridden
to death, become as gall and NORWOOD to
those about us, frequently thvottling their
own ambitions, because we sour or rouse
them Inadvertently until they die in spirit
and never ripen in fine thought and action
as they might do otherwise.
People often die in spirit long before their
bodies do, and all because we crush their
ambitions by our biting sarcasm, bursts of
temper or whitening scorn.
We kill them, too, by innuendoes, imply
ing things against them when we really know
nothing to warrant it. By "damning with
faint praise and "while not sneering yet
| teach the rest to sneer, we dwarf whole lives.
These are the things that are as deadly to
development as an actual knife-thrust is to
the death of the physical body.
Peoples ambitions and the products of
| their hands and brains are just as dear and
| sacred to them as earthly children and should
be treated tenderly by their inmates and next
| to kin.
We frequently throttle those about us
without so much as laying finger upon
them. We build up mountains of envy,
hate and uncharitable within ourselves that
find expression in our lives, reacting upon
| those about us until they never develope as
they might have done but for our own per-
sonal thoughts and actions.
| Lives have been wrecked, regulations lost,
sometimes ending in suicide, because of a
malicious word or unkind thrust, with the
perpetrators going down to their graves as
exemplary citizens. The hangman's moose
never found them, but they were as guilty
as many another who so paid the price for
his, evil acts.
To deliberately commit such offenses is
done every day by many who call themselves
Christians, and we who are intelligent should
constantly guard against being stumbling
block to anyone. Annie Miller Knapp.
In all lands and in all ages God has made
himself known and has permitted pur
souls to find him when they sought him
with earnestness and reverence.-Ptofe
Pheiderer.
In trying to be interesting people say
later.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
The Bosporus

The Bosporus, no less than the Dardan-
ellis, is rich in classic myth and ancient
deeds of valor.
The name that the Greeks gave to the
strait means passage or crossing for cattle
Oxford is the exact English equivalent
for Bosporus. Did they so name it because
agricultural knowledge there crossed from
Asia into Europe. or because the Phriygasns
crossed there when the oracle told them TO
follow route that one of there oxen would
take if driven to the water? Or was it be-
cause the Phriygains first crossed.in vessel
that had an OK for a fgurehead? Or be-
cause 10, when Zeus had transformed her
into white heifer, swan the strait to es-
cape the tormenting gadAy? You may
take your choice, for ancient writers gave
all these explanations. They also tell us that
other straits bore the same name, notably
the passage that connects the Sea of Azov
with the Black Sea-
The Strait that now has the exclusive use
of the name Bosporus was known earlier as
the Thracian Bosporus. A modern writer
has we'll called it ''the bleeding vein of
Europe" There the crimson tides of con-
quest have ebbed and flowed for unnum-
bered centuries. More than five hundred
yeass before the birth of Christ, the great
Darius led his Persian hosts across the
Bosporus on a bridge of boats, for the in
vasion of Scythia, as, generation later,
his son Xerxes, led his armies across the
Hellespont. To the Borporus, when al
most a thousand years had passed, came
Constantine from Rome to found the Empire
of the East and to build the capitol that
has faced the fury of besieging armies no
fewer than thirty two times.
There, like succession of wonderful
pageants, the hosts of the crusaders crossed
from Europe into Asia, ahame with zeal to
recue the Holy Sepulchure from the infidels.
There for centuries, passed the priceless
cargoes that in the Middle Ages gave
power to Venice and Genoa.
To the shore of the Bosporus, in 1853.
came Mohammed II with the strength and
strategy that finally wrested Constantinople
from "the Christian dogs that had long
dehled Islam. When the defenders check
ed the invading fleet by iron chains stretch
ed across the narrow strait, Mohammed laid
a chute of creased planks from the Bos-
porus round behind the city, along which
his men and horses dragged seventy of his
galleys to the Golden Horn where they
could better lombard the Christian fleet
and forts.
In May 462 years ago, over the weller
and sack of the fallen city, Mohammed II
spurred his horse through the doors of St.
Sophia. Since then the waters of the Bos-
porus have reflected a crescent above the
dome of the ancient church; it may be that
the reflection is now about to give way to
that of the cross that the waters knew for
more than thousand years.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
Which Are You

There are four great classes of men,
Get out your scrapbook and scissors,
For you'll want to read this again;
The Has beens and May bes and then
The Lean is and the Is-ers.
The Has beens and May-bes you see
Are useless this present minute,
And the Lean is always will be;
For life that is now you'll agree
They really are not in it.
But the Is-ers, -happysare they!
The ones who enjoy the present;
Work while they work, play when they
play,
Live for best in every day,
And find such living pleasant
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-22
The Price

AS the second year of the vast European
struggle nears its end, economists estimate
that the stupendous destructive work has
cost a total of 81 billions of dollars. A
billion is not easily comprehended by the
average man, unless he has something be-
sides the name itself to estimate by. But
if one stops to consider that in the entire
Christian era of 1916 years there have been
only few more than a billion minutes
some idea of what a stupendous figure a
billion is can be gained. The European
war aside from the destruction of human
energy has thus far cost $51 for every
minute that has elapsed since the time of
Christ, and the end is not yet.-Ex.