The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-03-08
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Tobacco seed is apparently about the
only seed on the market that has not
been advanced to keep pace with the
war schedules of recent times. And
this seed continues to cost less in pro-
portion to the value of the crop pro-
duced than any product of the soil. 1t
is such small item that farmers do
not take much account of it and are
therefore less Indifferent to the quality
of the seed used than they should be.
There are plenty Of propagators of the
improved varieties of tobacco seed to
supply any ordinary demand for seed
this state is likely to have. They stand
ready to supply it to growers at such
moderate. prices, too, that none need
let the matter of expense stand in the
way Of securing supply that has been
tested and guaranteed to be true to
type The time is at hand now when
farmers should be laying in their sup
ply for the coming crop. II the grow
er is undecided what seed he should Sc
cure, any of the large operators in
Wisconsin leaf would be only too glad
to inform him of the style and type of
leaf that is likely to yield him the best
returns for his crop. The dealer gen
orally knows best the style of binder
the market mostly Graves and you can
lose nothing by consulting him.
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It was from the American continent
that tobacco was introduced to the
world. It's production and use have
spread to every civilized country and
there are very few climates and soils
to which the plant has not be able to
adopt itself. In spite of this world
wide production and consumption, how
ever, the United States continues to
stand as leader in every respect of
the tobacco trade of the world. Our
leadership is four-fold We produce
far more tobacco than any other coun-
try. We are the greatest tobacco con-
Stunning nation Of the world. We stand
first in the volume of tobacco exports,
and at the same time we import more
tobacc8 than any other nation in the
world.
Although two hundred miles from the
seaboard, Winston Salem, N. c., dual
city of 1900 inhabitants, has been
designated as port of entry by the
customs officials because it's imports of
sugar, licorice and tobacco are enor-
| nous. Since 1910 the manufacture of
| tobacco products has increased more
than $40 per cent. Indeed, it is be-
lieved that Winston-Salem now leads
ST. Louis as the chief tobacco manu-
featuring city in the United States.
| Eight days after the government had
given Winston-Salem $3.50, 600 post
office building the city had paid for it
| in tobacco revenues.
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| The United States is by far the most
important tobacco producing country
both from the point Of view of quantity
and quality. A few limited areas, such
| as parts of the island of Cuba, and the
east coast of Sumatra, furnish varie-
ties of tobacco that are very fine in
quality and that have special market.
Similarly, part Of the Turkish~crop is
| considered by some to be unsurpassed
for pipe tobacco and cigarettes. Since
1913, when our total production of leaf
| tobacco was 953, 734, 900 pounds, the
| crop has been uniformly above one bill
lion pounds and has increased each
year. The crop estimate of December
1, 1917, was 1,196, 541, 900 pounds, the
largest of which the Department of
Agriculture has record. There are,
however, so many types and varieties
of tobacco grown in the United States,
and the purpose for which the leaf is
| to be used depends SO largely upon the
| type of the leaf and the district In
| which it is grown, that total figures
lose their significance to large ex-
tent. In general, it may be said that
the product of single state typ
ically falls into the binder, or filler, or
wrapper, etc.. class, although the ex-
act proportion of the crop of each state
which is available for any purpose de-
pends upon the quality of the crop for
that season. That is, Connecticut, for
example, is a large producer of high
grade wrappers, but if the crop is dam
aged by hail or frost, more of the crop
will be used for cutting and chewing
purposes. Kentucky, which produces
mostly cutting, smoking, chewing,
cigarette and export tobacco, repre-
senting, in general, lower quality,
leads all the states in quantity of leaf
| produced. North Carolina and Virginia
follow, and produce tobacco leaf suited
to the same uses. The chief cigar to-
bacco states are Connecticut, Pennsyl-
vania, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin and
florida, but within the past few years
Florida has been producing remark.
| ably high grade of cigar wrapper leaf