The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-10-10
Wisconsin Tobacco Market
EDeERToN, WIS. Oct. 10, l9l9.


The almost continuous downpour of
last week throughout this section was
not favorable to the curing of the to-
bacco last shielded. The sheds are
pretty well filled, in many instances
crowded full of tobacco. If the wealth
er had been warmer during the rainy
spell, there might have been danger of
damage. Rumors were abroad that
some tobacco had been damaged, but,
as is the case with most runors, the
place where the trouble was reported
is always somewhere else. The facts
are that no one can point to any one
crop that shows damage as result of
the high moisture of the past days.
The temperature remained moderate.
and growers who opened and closed
their sheds as the weather conditions
changed will experience no serious i'll
effects upon their tobacco. The change
in the weather at the beginning of this
week, the bright sunshine, light warm
air and active breeze now prevailing,
have cleared the sheds of excessive
humidity and the chances for perfect
curing of the crop are favorable. The
past days have had the mellow fresh
ness of perfect Indian summer.
The market remains quiet as far as
the new crop is concerned. Now and
then 1918 crop is picked up. Not a
few of them are held by farmers in
certain localities, awaiting an offer
that will satisfy the owner. The sam
pling is finished, except in the farmers
cooperative warehouses; and Mr.. A.
H. Clarke, the official agent of the
Linde, Hamilton & Co., tobacco in
spectors, is called to start the work of
sampling the holdings of these con-
Germs, representing several thousand
cases.
NEW YORK, Sept. "a, 1919.
The summer season of 1919 will un-
doubtedly be remembered by Water
Street packers as one of the most
unique and unprecedented periods in
the history of the domestic leaf mar
ket. Despite the fact that a large
part of the cigar manufacturing indus
try has been interrupted for many
weeks by one of the most serious strike
tie-ups experienced in many years, bus
mess with Water Street leaf merchants
has in the main been remarkably good.
This fact is even more difficult of ex-
PLANTATION when it is remembered that
July and August, even in normal times,
are at best, extremely quiet months,
when little in the way of movement is
expected. During previous strike
troubles, when the suspension of man
ufacturing activities has been at all
widespread, Water Street has always
felt the effects of the interruption of
production almost Immediately, and
frequently in degree far more pro-
nounced than conditions warranted. In
the presdnt instance, however, that
much abused and generally misused and
hackDeyed phrase, psychological af-
feet, seems to be entirely or largely
absent as factor in the market.
Therefore, leaf dealers argue with good
logic that there must be some very
substantial reason behind the continued
active interest which manufacturers
have shown, in spite of existing condi-
tions, in their supplies of raw mater
ials.
One very convincing reason given,
and one which is the basis for the pre-
diction that the end of the strike will
be followed Immediately by an intense
" active demand for all desirable
grades of cigar leaf, is that even be-
fore the strike tie-up the majority of
manufacturers were nearing the end of
their reserve supplies of raw materials,
and that these supplies are now COM
pletely exhausted. Leaf.