The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-06-18
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written TO seven large tobacco COM
panies, says the Tobacco Leaf, asking
their cooperation in enlisting smokers
in campaign against the careless use
of fires in all forests. The SECRETARY
suggests to the manufacturers of Nci-
garettes and tobacco to print warn
ing on the packages against throwing
away burning matches and cigarette
stumps.' The appeal will undoubtedly
be met by the manufacturers of smok-
ing tobaccos and cigaretts with hearty
approval, whether they admit or not
the contention that live matches and
cigar and cigarette stumps are gen.
eral cause of forest fires. The warn
ing should be needed by all smokers,
and due care should be exercised at all
times and in all places that the smok-
ers do not become responsible for fires
through negligence on their part in
the handling of matches and live cigar
and cigarette stumps.
***
The Canadian tobacco industry is
growing rapidly. Tobacco is now cul-
tivated extensively in the province of
Quebec, over 20, 900 acres, Ontario be-
tween 5000 and 10000 acres, British
Columbia and Alberta. They raise a
variety of types, and since the import
duty was increased the growers have
been receiving good prices. Govern
ment experiment farms have been es-
tablished for the promotion of tobacco
culture, and the Canadian farmers are
mixing brains and hard work in devel-
oping the industry. The cost of grow
ing the leaf is estimated at $50 to $75
per acre, which to Wisconsin growers
seems hardly credible. The yield per
acre is about 1900 to 1900 pounds aver
age. The different varieties of the
Burley, the Maryland leaf, the Seed
Leaf, the Comstock Wisconsin and 9TH
ers are grown. The experiment sta
tions are working toward the develop
ment of the types that prove them
selves best suited to the soil, climate
and market of the Canadian industry.
:.**
\ In,estimating the Importance of the
recent convention at Dayton, Ohio, of
the National Cigar Leaf Tobacco asso-
citation, the Tobacco Leaf has the fol-
lowing comment: "A visitor to the
convention of the National Cigar Leaf
Tobacco association during the lively
two days session at Dayton could
scarcely have failed to have been i'm
pressed with the spirit of absolute har-
mony and sincerity which pervaded the
entire meeting. Of the formidable list
of resolutions, both corrective and con-
structive, which were adopted, there
was not one which did not aim directly
toward the general improvement of the
industry as q whole. Obviously the
adoption of these excellent resolutions
will not bring to pass the reforms and
improvements which they are designed
to accomplish. But with such unity of
purpose as was displayed and with the
return to Office of so efficient corps of
executives, there seems to be ample
assurance that these reforms will not
be allowe to wither through neglect.
If the spirit displayed at this conven-
tion may be taken as criterion of the
feeling pervading the cigar leaf indus
try as whole, there can be no ques-
tion of the fact that the National Cigar
Leaf Tobacco association is entering
upon the most useful and satisfactory
period in the history of the organiza-
ton. The program of work to be ac-
complished has been drawn along
broadly beneficial lines, which If sue
cessfully carried out will perform
valuable service, not alone to the cigar
leaf trade but to the entire cigar in
dustry as well. !"
The export business of American to-
bacco and tobacco products has suf-
fered since the war, due to many
causes, chief among which is the un-
favorable rate of exchange, and the
general unsettled conditions in Europe.
That these conditions will continue for
some time is to be expected; but old
export firms and men who have made a
careful study of this phase of the trade
aSICC tlldI GuC udit III GlS cApOII DuSl-
ness is only temporary. As the coun-
tries of Europe recover from their
economic exhaustion, and life again as
sumes its normal movement, the de-
mand for American tobacco will assert
itself with renewed vigor. Attention
is called to the rather humiliating dis
closure that number of irresponsible
manufacturers, especially of cigarettes,
sold goods made in America in Euro
pean markets of quality that:contrib-
uted to the Stacking up inthe demand
for American goods. The European
smoker may not be used to as good q
quality of tobacco as the average
American uses, but he can tell when he
is offered something that is rotten.
Having been taken in once by the
sharper who claimed to sell standard
American goods, the European GUS
toner becomes suspicious, and it will
take care on the part of the American
exporter to again rehabilitate himself
and his product in the good graces and
favor of his Eur0Dean customer Here