The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-06-25
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| influx of help from mills and factories
/ which are running on short time. The
| situation, however, indicates that the
/ drift of farm labor to cities and towns
probably has been checked for the pres
ent, and there is even hope that the
| tide will swing in the opposite direc-
ton. For nearly four years tobacco
/ growers have seen their workers, both
men and women, abandoning the fields
| and warehouses for shorter hours and
higher wages in the cities. Unskilled
| labor when urged to do something like
a days work for a days pay has not
been backward in declaring that if the
| grower isn't satisfied work in abun-
dance awaits the farm hand in the
| nearest city. The only kind of work in
| abundance which now awaits farm
| hands in tobacco belt cities is that of
common labor, and the average farm
hand has no ambition to go to the city
as common laborer. All in all, the
| tobacco grower stands in the best posi-
| tion in several years as regards pros
| pectre labor efficiency. e. w. P. in
| the Leaf.
Figures recently compiled by the
state crop reporter show that 1923, $685.
| SAB pounds of tobacco have been sold In
North Carolina during the past season
at an average of slightly under so cents
a pound. This is said to be the highest
ever paid for tobacco.
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June II to 19, both days inclusive,
the Tobacco Association of the u. S.
met at Atlantic City in convention.
Five hundred delegates were present,
representing the tobacco industry in
Kentucky, Tennessee. the Virginias,
the Carolinas and sections producing
export types of leaf. In the matter of
acreage, this association represents
nearly rs per cent of all tobacco raised
in the United States. These states
produce the cigarette, smoking and
chewing tobacco tyyes. Forty billion
cigarettes and four hundred million
pounds of smoking and che wing tobac-
cos are produced annually from the to-
bacco grown in these states.
Under the present arrangements the
American manufacturers have to COM
pete in buying the Sumatra tobacco.
It has resulted in sending the price of
this goods UP nearly 100 per cent above
the 1917 price when the buying was
done by syndicate of American man
ufacturers.A The Dutchmen are reap
ing golden harvest
Representatives of the various tobac-
co companies have been called to Wash
ington during the past two weeks to be
present at the hearings before the joint
boards of the Army and Navy depart
ments in the matter of price adjust
ments on merchandise sold to the Army
and Navy departments subsequent to
October l, 1918. Upon the results of
these hearings the board will make
recommendations to the respective de-
partments as to final valuations to be
placed upon goods as yet unsettled for
in full.
1t may be hard to prove, perhaps,
but here is bit of tobacco news from
the English colonies in America in the |
year 1921: In 1921, sixty maids, Of vir-
tuous education, young and handsome,
were sent out from London on marri-
age speculation. The first lot of these
ladies was bought by the colonists for
120 pounds of tobacco each. The sec
ond lot brought $50 pounds each.
The following interesting bit of in
| formation is taken from the u. S. To-
bacco Joursal: The Bureau of Crop
| Estimates of the Department of .Agri-
culture now and then collates and pub
fishes some interesting facts concern
| ing the growth Of production and con-
| sumption of certain crops in this coun-
try. In 1889 Virginia led in tobacco
production, supplying 81 per cent, or
little more than one-third of the entire
production in the United States. It
maintained this lead until the civil war
| when Kentucky moved up to the first
rank, which lead has been held to this
time. By 1869 it produced 40 per cent
of the total, buC the average for 1914
| 1918 being 35 per cent. Virginia kept
| slowly falling behind until 1899 when
| North Carolina took the second place,
producing Id per cent of the total crop
| For some years there was a fuctuation,
North Carolina leading and again Vir-
| ginia. During the five years, 1914
| with a steady average of 18 per cent of
4 tuC IOIcA NdtlOudi I1OP, 0llO v .
only IL per cent. During the same
time Ohio held fourth place with per
cent, and in order followed Pennsyl-
vania with As per cent, Wisconsin with
4.4 per cent, South Carolina with 3.5
per cent, and Connecticut with per
| cent.
| The Auction Tobacco Sales Co. is the
| name of an experiment begun in Lam
| caster county, Pa. While the company
| is not yet incorporated, but the pro-
moters have launched plan TO lease
| the Fair Grounds exhibition building
for use as public sales floor for sell
ing the county tobacco at public auc-
ton. A meeting for the purpose OF in
| forming the growers OF the virtues of
this method of selling their tobacco was
held on the Fair Grounds on June 49,
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