The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-07-02
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The 1920 tobacco crop is in the field,
or nearly so; very little tobacco is left
to transplant 1t has an early start
under favorable weather conditions.
There is plenty of moisture in the soil,
and warm weather with frequent show
ers, now hoped for, will push it to early
maturity. Two summer months and
the harvest will be on, and the interest
of the tobacco industry will center
around the market conditions of the
1920 Wisconsin. Looking back upon
the year that is past since the 1919 was
harvested, the Wisconsin growers and
buyers have reason to remember it with
pleasure. There was no speculative
stampede on the part of the packers to
buy before the crop was curing in the
shed. The growers knew what they
sold, and the buyers knew what they
bought. Prices were, on the whole,
such as to give the grower reason
able return for his labor and risk, and
very little difficulty was experienced at
the time of delivery. The principal
drawback of the season was the lack of
moisture during the winter months to
bring the tobacco into condition for
stripping. The stripping season was
unusually late, and this, together with
the universal shortage of labor, brought
the asserting season down past mid
summer; most of the warehouses going
strong into the month of July. In spite
of these hindrances the work has been
taken care of, and the crop will be
available for the manufacturer not
much later than during former years.
1919 was characterized as an ''era of
good feeling" in the Wisconsin tobacco
market, and with good reason. There
are no indications of any new policy on
the part of either growers or buyers as
far as the new crop is concerned. No
one is looking for field buying or any
unto@ard scramble for the new crop,
but all have entered upon the produc-
tion of the new crop with the confident
expectation of realizing as we'll on the
19201as they did on the 1919, and of be-
ing able to dispose of it under the fav-
orahle circumstances of good will and
fair play which characterized the past
year.
The work of the tobacco specialists
Of the Department of Agriculture will
be discontinued on June 80, because Of
the failure of congress to furnish suf-
ficient funds with which to continue the
Investigations in which they have been
engaged. The agricultural appropria-
tion bill, as passed by congress shortly
before the end of the session, provided
$31, ATS, 1868, approximately Sc, 600, 900
less than the estimates made by the
department as to the needs, and more
than $4,000. 900 less than the amount
provided in the appropriation act for
the current fiscal year. 1.-The appro-
priation for the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates has been reduced by about $685.,
000," said Secretary Of Agriculture
Meredith, in discussing the bin. ''This
means the discontinuance of all special
service except the regular monthly
crop reports on acreage, condition and
production of staple crops. 1t means
that the services of crop-reporting
specialists on tobacco will have to be
dispensed with, as well as those on cot
ton and rice-and these three crops last
year had farm value of nearly three
billion dollars. The value of the work
of the tobacco specialists, which will
be discontinued, is we'll known to the
farmers of Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Ohio, Maryland and Georgia. "-Tobac-
CO World
The manufacture of cigars during
the nine months fiscal year period was
6, 348, 1876, 334, compared with 5, 664, 301,-
174, showing an increase OF 684, 034, 1SO.
During the nine months fiscal year
period there was manufactured total
of AZ, 388, 299, 286 both large and small
cigarettes, compared with 33, 179, 1885,
644, showing an increase of 9,208, AGO.
642, of which 9, 1876, 800, ,286 were small
cigarettes and IL, $40, 353 were large
cigarettes. The total snuff production
during the fiscal year period was 32,-
215, 703 or an increase of 8, 1872, 80.
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The San Francisco correspondent to
the u. S. Tobacco Journal reports the
following: The largest shipment of to-
bacco and machinery for cigarette
making in China that has ever passed
through the San Francisco port from
the eastern part of the United States
has been arranged for this year by Sat
Hing Kan, the cigarette king of China,
who stopped in San Francisco on his
way to Shanghai. Kan has just bought
in the East 5000, 900 worth of tobacco
which will be shipped in $4,000 hogs
heads. He has also bought 81, 500, 600
worth of cigarette-making machinery.
Last year his shipments of tobacco
through the San Francisco port were
valued at Sc. 900. 900. Eighteen years