The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-10-01
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A new phase of the labor supply in
this country is developing through the
activities put forth by several Euro
pean nations to offer such inducements
at home as to keep the laboring class
from seeking future home in Amer
lea. In Greece and Finland the author
tiles offer tillable land and financial as
sistance in the development of it.
France and Italy are discussing an ar
Irangement by which Italian miners
who take service in French coal pro-
ducing regions may thereby secure for
Italy certain amount of coal. But
the most significant move on the part
of European governments is the effort
they are making to hinder the men who
do seek employment in the foreign
countries from becoming citizens of
these countries. Among the things the
European nations must conserve since
the war none is more important than
their man power, and while they may
consider America good place for their
nationals to go to earn money, they
frown on any plan on the part of the
American government at Americana
ing them and inducing them to become
American citizens. To hinder this some
of the European governments will per-
NIT their citizens who reside abroad to
retain their right to vote at the cleo
tions in the home country.
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/ Farmers in Beltrami county, Mime
sofa, have this summer experimental
with tobacco growing on small scale.
They have not grown enough acreage
to appeal to the market, but they have
found that the weed grows and does
well. Some of this tobacco found its
way to the Minnesota state fair for ex-
hibition. The largest tobacco areas in
Minnesota have been around ST. Cloud,
Rochester, Spring Grove and little
near Winona. About 500 acres were
grown in 1919 according to reports.
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Australia is making bid as tobac-
co growing country. Several hundred
acres were planted last year, and in
some districts. growers realized up to
$3.50 per acre. The government is ad
vancing money to the growers for the
building of occurring borns. Some of
the tobacco was this year shipped to
England to be tested in the world mar
ket
Of the tobacco raised in Big Flats
district, NJ Y, some of which is grown
from Wisconsin seed, a writer in the
Tobocco Leaf says: Active buying of
the new crop has taken place here in
the last week. Numerous firms, local
and otherwise, have purchased prob
ably one-fourth of the acreage, this be-
ing this year estimated at 5000 cases.
The prices have ranged from an eX-
treme low of 27 cents TO the highest
reported sale at 80 centss this latter
being a large lot and exceptionally we'll
developed and grown. Thirty cents is
the average. The crop as whole has
a wonderful growth, caused by the nu-
merous rains and warm nights. Ne
damage from hoppers or worms has
been so far found. The only thing re-
naming in doubt is the cure. Much of
the tobacco is being cut too green, and
this, combined with the fact that the
sun did not shine for nearly two weeks,
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ance of the finished product There is
also very great danger of shed-burn
and stem-rot, due to the very large
growth and the great amount of water
which is present in the stems.
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The announcement that the 1919 crop
of Java tobacco will be offered on Sep
tember % will prove most interesting
to the cigar manufacturers who have
been waiting this event to complete
their wrapper supplies for the year,
says the u. S. Tob. Journal. The first
consignment, received by three of the
leading tobacco houses, consists of
about $500 bales of Vorstenladen Java
Additional consignments will be re-
ceived later, but the total amount of
this tobacco suitable for the American
market, it is said, will not greatly ex-
ceed total of 5000 bales. In view of
the rapid strides to favor that the Java
wrappers have made in the past few
years, it will easily appear that this
quantity is not sufficient to meet the
requirements of the trade, fact which
receives additional confirmation in the
purchase last week in Amsterdam of
nearly 1000 bales of old Jaya by two
American houses.
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The Lancaster County Farm Bureau,
through its secretary, T. Warren Metz
ger of Lancaster, Pa, has addressed
QUESTIONABLE to The Reporter, asking
information concerning the Wisconsin
tobacco crop, the prices offered for the