The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-15
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES

8. NOTE BOOK SKETCHES =
Up to the beginning of the present
week all indications pointed to an un-
usually late transplanting season in
this state but the occurrence of more
seasonable weather, such as was needed
to put quick response in the growth
of the plant beds, conditions have i'm
proved amazingly. Where it looked
week ago like shortage of plants and
but few ready for the fields during the
month, growers find sufficient supply
to start setting by the 10Th which is
the usual date for this state. Beds
that were only thinly covered the first
few weeks have since come forward
from dormant seed and now give prom
ise of an abundance of plants for
the later transplanting. There seems
to be plenty to do now for the tobacco
growers in preparing their fields and
have them in readiness for the trans
planting of the crop SO that but few
delays need be encountered in getting
the contemplated acreage out. The
soil is certainly in fine condition for
plowing and fitting for the machines.
Wisconsin farmers and gardeners,
amateurs as we'll as professionals, must
get ready to fight the cut worm, whose
first attack is now due. Poison bran
mash, scattered in the corn field or in
the vicinity of the place where tomato
plants are to be set out, is considered
tie best resistant measure. The mash
can be made by stirring two pounds Of
Paris green or white arsenic into fifty
pounds of bran. Dissolve one pound of
coarse salt and quart of cheap syrup
or molasses in warm water. Pour the
fluid over the dry mixture, and work
into crumbly mash. Scatter this out
late in the afternoon OF early in the
evening so it will not dry before the
worms get at it. Of course, dogs and
chickens must not be given chance to
pick UP this bait. The rest is easy. -
L. G.. Guntner, College of Agriculture,
University of Wisconsin.
Consideration of the war revenue bill
by the Senate Committee on Finance
has reached stage where the trade
can look forward to what it will be
called upon to produce under the bill
with reasonable assurance that no fur
ther changes in rates of taxation will
be made. Admitting that the trade
did not get all that it asked for it is
|. hot n1
with such consideration as was shown
to it for, as will be evident from an
ANALYSIS of the situation, it has escaped |
the pitfalls to which it was exposed, |
and will come out of the fight with an
average increase of so per cent where
it offered an average increase of 40 per
cent. It was generally understood
that the Committee wished to raise ap-
proximately so per cent more on cigars
than last year, or 2,O00,O 900, so the T.
M. A. committee figured out schedule
which provided for an increase of 80
cents on cigars selling at less than
cents: one dollar on cigars from four
to seven cents inclusive; four dollars
on cigars above cents and not more
than 12a cents, and six dollars above
121 cents. It was estimated this sched-
ule would produce S12, 125, 900. An ex-
animation of the tobacco schedules as
reported will show that the Finance
Committee made the following changes
in the bill as it came from the House: |
It cut out the tax on cigars selling at
less than four cents; put four-cen ci-
gars in the class with five and six-cent |
goods and added seven-cent cigars, and
left that rate at 81 per thousand;
changed the class of more than six and
not more than ten cents to include cl-
gars selling at more than seven cents
and not more than 123 cents, leaving
the increase at So per thousand; chang
ed the class of 10 and Is cents, to read
121 cents to 20 cents, making the rate
SIS per thousand and fixed the rate on
all above 20 cents at 81 per thousand,
eliminating the class of 20 to Is cents
at $40 per thousand and that above rs
cents at $40 per thousand, as was pro-
vided in the bill when it passed the
House.
Again was enormous, according TO
the Internal Revenue statistics, the in
crease in the output of the tobacco in
dustry during the month Of April. The
increase in cigar production mounted
to nearly 100, 600, 600, the largest in one
month as far as our recollection goes.
The increase in the cigarette output |
amounted to over l 200, 600, 900; in little |
cigars to %, 500, 900 and in manufactur
ed tobacco to $3.50, 900 pounds. Wheth- |
er these truly marvellous increases rep
resent solely the natural growth of the |
trade and consequently reflect also the
ever-growing consumption of tobacco |
products or merely an anticipation of |
future business, bringing larger pro-
duction in order to escape the addi- |
tional taxation it is impossible to de- |
termine, but we believe that the latter
cause must have been negligently in