The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-02-13
NOTE BOOK. SKETCHES

| local tobacco dealers association is the
| movement. In Connecticut, Ohio, Penn
| sylvania and other eastern tobacco
growing states such organizations have
been completed long ago. 1t seems
that wherever they have been started,
| they have served tos benefit the tobacco
industry in its different branches. The
! committee, Andrew Mcintosh, w.
Dickinson and Oscar Jenson, selected
| by the meeting is in touch with the
eastern organizations to obtain their
constitutions and bylaws for the pur-
pose Of drawing from these whatever
points might be suitable in drafting the
rules and regulations of the organiza-
! ton here. The matter is as yet in the
stage of investigation, and definite in
! formation as to the purposes of the
! local organization are not available un-
/ til other meetings have had chance to
! formulate and decide upon perman
ent plan. The committee has also in
! charge to ascertain how other packing
centerS in the state feel about Joining
into a state association. 1t is under
stood. that farmer warehouse asSocia-
tions Join through their representatives.
, In this way all parties operating as
| packers and dealers would have voice
| in the transactions of the tobacco deal
ers association by joining it and SUBJ
| scribing to its constitution and such
other regulations as may be found ex-
pedient by the association as whole
| from time to time Mr. W. b. Doty,
| the Edgerton Chamber of Commerce
secretary acts as secretary of the local
temporary organization.
~
The Dodge county union of the
American Society of Equity at its meet
| ing in Watertown a week ago passed
strong resolutions against having the
| society go into politics by supporting
certain candidates for political offices.
The sudden slump in prices recorded
| last week seems to have occurred in
| sympathy with the crash of foreign ex-
| change rates, and the decline in the
| stock market If export of American
produce is held UP by continued de-
| moralization OF the foreign markets "a
decline in prices all along the line may
| follow. The tobacco market, except III
| theyexpogL end of 1t, has not as yet
been Neffected. and it may survive the
| shock. due to the fact that the absorp
Ition at home is fully capable of taking
care of the supply on hand. In Eng
| land press campaign has just been
| started advocati ting cutting out as much
| as possible all imports of luxuries from
| the United States, and on the other
hand, to encourage expectation OF man
| ufactured goods: In this way IL lis
| hoped that the exchange rate may be
righted.
In connection with the announcement
| of the death of Mrs. Roxanna Swain
at Madison a week ago last Monday,
| the Capital Times states that Mrs
SWANS father, Jacob link, was the
/! first one to raise tobacco in Dane Co.
| Mr.. and Mrs. link came from Penn
sylvania to the town of Verona in 1845
| They had been accustomed to tobacco
| culture in Pennsylvania, and brought
| a quantity of tobacco seed with them
| to Wisconsin. In 1848 they raised the
| first crop of tobacco. Mrs. link had
/ learned how to make cigars, and she
made several hundred of them the
following winter, and her son Henry
sold them i'll Madison.
! ~.
Cigar types of tobacco are produced
in New England New York, Pennsyl-
vania, the Miami Valley in Ohio, Wis
consin, Georgia, and Florida Of the
entire crop of l,389;O00,000 pounds i IN,
1919, the cigar types constituted about
| one-sixth, and the chewing, smoking,
snuff, and export types most of the re-
mainder, according to the Bureau of
Crop Estimates. United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. The cigar types
are heavy producers per acre, the av-
erage for 1919 being 1,265 pounds, while
the other types had an average OF 079
pounds.
Representative men of America, Great
Britain, Holland, Switzerland, Dem
mark, Norway and Sweden impressed
by the trade difficulties imposed by the
extreme discount on European Ex7
change, have sent to their respective
countries, TO the Reparation Commits
sion. and the United States Chamber
of Commerce joint apeal for an In
| ternational economic conference for the
purpose of examining the situation in
| Europe, and ito recommend upon the
basis of authentic information what ac-
ton in the various countries is advis-
able among the peoples interested in
reviving and maintaining international
commerce.
/ The idea of this conference is said
to have originated in the European neu-
trail countries and the present prospect
is that it will be held in March, prob
ably at The Hague-U. S. Tob. Journal.
The bill prohibiting smoking in pub
lie eating places in South Carolina,
passed by the senate week ago, was
| killed in the house without dissenting
vote. In 1919 the state had 135,O00
| acres of tobacco planted for which the
!, farmers received S18,468000.00
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