Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-08-07
OUR BOUNTEOUS HARVEST
NEVER BEFORE so GREAT IN
GOOD OLD VERNON
All Crops Garnered Are Bumper
Right Conditions for Month will
Insure a Complete Harvest


1t is a common expression among
farmers and persons of many years
residence in this section that they re-
member of no season when crop pros
poets were so possible of a magnifi-
Gently heavy yield of everything.
With the hay harvest practically Sc
cured, a large per cent of the grain
in shocks and the rest fully ripene1
and ready for the sickle, the root
crops promising abundance of cellar
stores, there is real cause for thank
fulness as people.
The corn and tobacco now only need
right and steady guidance and the
present variety of weather to make
things safe and joyful for the hus-
bandman. Six weeks of such warmth
and moisture will make good corn. In
tobacco, the prospects were never so
bright for quantity, quality and price.
Many have and are topping and the
18th or 10th of August have been set
to commence cutting and shedding.
This is for the most forward fields.
These early and even crops are a
beautiful sight, high as a mans
shoulder, wide branching leaves that
scarcely admit of ones passing be-
tween the rows. This is prime stock
and if placed in the sheds free from
damage will bring returns that will
make swelling wallets and bank ac-
counts. The late and small fields,t too,
are making record growth now
Up to date, in this section at least,
there has been no break in the COM
pact entered into a month since re-
garding buying,
OF tobacco matters elsewhere the
Edgerton Reporter comments: There
is so much uneasiness developing
among the tobacco buyers who are
riding the growing districts again that
it is a question how long the gentle
mems agreement of the larger opera
tors to lay off can be kept in force.
Quite a little buying is all the time
being done, in the outlying districts
mainly, principally by local firms,
where growers can be induced to con-
tract under the 80 cent limit, which
if ii were to continue, might lead to
return of the more extensive cam
paign, though the growers would pre-
fer TO have them wait until the crop
covering the greater portion of the
tobacco sections early in the week
were accompanied by scattering hail
in few localities. but outside of a
few spots in Vernon county. the dam
age is reported to be slight.
1t is reported that o. r. Pomeroy
at Gays Mills has sold his warehouse
to the Otto Eesinlohr & Bro. Co. This
will give the Philadelphia concern
packing facilities in the Kickapoo val
ley for purchases made in that section
of the state.
A 700 case lot of tobacco five years
old, owned by an English firm, has
been shipped by the Earle Tobacco
Company this week upon an order
q. KID by the government. Doubtless
4 will go into smokes for the SAM
mics.
The House ways and Means COM
mittee are practically agreed to con-
slider a doubling Of the tax on tobacco
in the new revenue bill. Present rates
are he per pound on tobacco and
snuff; 81 TO $40 per 900 on cigars;
50 05 and $3.50 per 1000 on cigarettes
and half cent to cents on a pack
age of cigarette papers. The treas
ury depart ment several weeks ago
suggested tax of "a cents on tobacco
and fiat doubling of other rates. A
majority Cf the committee have in
formally expressed themselves as in
favor of this Dlan