The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-10-22
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to assist the American exporter is be-
ing organized by the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, Washington,
D. C. The service is working out a
complete index of foreign and domes-
tic firms, giving the firm names, the
nature of their business, it's size and
commercial rating. The index will be
constantly kept with changes occurring
in firms in order to have live lists.
This service, which is maintained with
out cost to the firms listed, will be of
great assistance both to the domestic
and foreign exporter.
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The export trade in tobacco, both
leaf and product, was lighter for July,
1920, than the same period year ago.
The seven months ending July 81, 1920,
show total decrease in leaf exports
of more than $50 million pounds, but
the income from such export was larg-
er than for the corresponding period in
1919. of our manufactured export to-
bacco, cigarettes show relatively the
largest gain.
The sudden death of Isaac II. Weaver
of Lancaster, Pa, president of the Ma
tionsl Cigar Leaf association, removes
one of Americas successful tobacco
men, and one of the most popular lead
ers in the trade. He died Of heart
failure, 81 years of age.
***
The Department of Agriculture has
announced series of hearings for the
purpose of obtaining data to form a
basis for Standardization of leaf tobac-
co. 1t is considered a most difficult
proposition, the leaf tobacco being one
of the last of agricultural crops to re-
main unstandardized.
***
A canvass of the domestic section of
the cigar leaf market during the past
week reveals the fact that there is a
more pronounced activity than surface
appearances would indicate. The new
Wisconsin binders have moved out of
sche market about as rapidly as samples
have arrived and the demand for Con-
necticut and fancy grades of old filters
has also been active.
***
Reports from Havana state that
American importers are consistently
maintaining their waiting attitude to-
ward the new Remedies crop and that
the market in this commodity is prac-
tically at standstill. While there is
still much difference of opinion regard
ing the possibility of break in the
prevailing prices, there is we'll de-
fined conviction in some quarters that
some recession in prices is inevitable.
Others hold with equal firmness to the
contrary opinion.
The licorice root, as extract and
paste, is largely used in the manufac-
ture of plug tobaccos. Most of it is
imported from Asiatic Turkey, some
from Spain and smaller quantities from
Italy and France. The imports have
reached over 100000 pounds year.
The cultivation of the root has been
tried also in this country and it thrives
and produces we'll even in poor soil, but
the cost of harvesting is so high that it
has not been success commercially so
far
The growers of Burley tobacco in
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana have or
ganized the Burley Growers Tobacco
association, representing $4,000 farm
ers. Only growers, and buyers who
raise tobacco, are eligible to member
ship. The fee is 500 year for land
owners and $2. SO for tenants.
4**
u. S. Bulletin No. 319 states: The
rapid introduction of the tractor as a
piece of farm machinery has made it
desirable to accumulate information as
to the value which these machines are
to farmers farming under our Wiscon-
sin conditions. From QUESTIONABLE
sent out by E. C. Sauve agricultural
Engineering) and answered by 1O6
tractor owners it was found that all
but Is were satisfied with their trac
tors. It is matter of Importance to
know the smallest size farm tractor
will operate properly. Of the 80 farm
ers answering this question large
number of owners believed the tractor
profitable on farm as small as 80
acres. Efforts were also made to de-
termine what influence the use of a
tractor had had upon the number of
horses on the farm. The use of sgt
horses before the purchase of a tractor
was reported by 78 owners with 388 on