The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-11-18
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.

Figures show that Connecticut has a
total of 30,5l9 acres of tobacco, 26, ,851
of which are in Hartford county. The
census was taken by the New England
crop statistician, " A. Sanders, with
the assistance of the various county
farm bureau agents and numerous to-
bacco growers. The acreage of Shade
grown was checked over by DR.. George
H. Chapman, and is thought to be abb
solutely correct. The other figures are
thought to be very close TO absolute ac-
curacy. The acreage of each type is
as follows: Havana Stalk 6,161, Ha-
vana Primed 1854, Broadleaf 1885.
Shade 5,679, Round Zip 210 acres. S.
A. B. in Leaf.
The price cutting war in the tobacco
products continues at furious gate in
many cities, and the consumers who
live in the war areas are benefited by
it. That it helps to reduce the supply
of manufactured cigars and tobacco
goes without saying, and to that ex-
tent it should not harm the men en-
gagged in the leaf business. It's effect
upon the dealers may not be so salts
factory, and if they have their own
throats cut in the effort to cut the
other fellows throat, it may not tend
to stimulate the tobacco business in
general The trouble of a price war is
always that the weaker go down in the
struggle, and the stronger can then go
on and put prices where they are COL
lecting indemnity for the losses of the
war.
Otto Olson, the federal expert in
charge of the Ephrata experimental
station, is receiving letters of inquiry
from all parts of the world relative to
the new type of tobacco he has propa-
gated, called the "Rustica." After
eight years of experiments he has pro-
duced type of tobacco noted for it's
high nicotine content, which makes it
Invaluable as an insecticide. In is,
therefore, in great demand by the
greenhouse men, fruit growers and
florists. Recent publications, includ-
ing several in the Lancaster letter of
the Tobacco Leaf, have sent the news
,cHthe "Rustica" all over the world,
and Mr.. 0ison's letters of inquiry come
from countries as distant as Japan,
South Africa, the Azores and the Ha-
waiian Islands. Several large manu-
facturers have asked regarding the pos
sibility of having this type of tobacco
grown in this country in large quanti
ties. "A. M. Slade in Leaf.
***
B. c. Forbes is quoted in Tobacco
Journal as saying: "All in all, taking
up one industry after another, and bar
ring none, things are better than We
have been pretending, and good year
is in sight. There is more money now
lying idle than there has ever been, and
when this is put to work, troubles in a
business way are over. Bankers who
have been dodging borrowers are now
welcoming them, and money rates are
becoming lower. Everything tends to
improvement, and the man with conf
dence is the man who will succeed 1t
sounds good, and we sincerely hope that
he is right. The optimist is good COM
pany even when he is wrong.
Advices from Canada indicate that
the tobacco farmers of Canada are pre-
pairing for 60,O00,000 pound crop this
year, which they say should have q
total value of more than SIS, 900, 000
Last year Ontario produced 21 ,688, 500
pounds of tobacco on 20, LA acres, Que
! bee, the premier tobacco province, pro-
| duced 26, 400, 900 pounds las1 year, an
| average of 800 pounds an acre. It was
so per cent increase over the preced-
ing year.-U. S. Tob. Journal.
| In an article comparing the cigar out
put during the first eight months Of
1920 with the same for 1921, the To-
| bacco Leaf, on the basis of figures from
the Internal Revenue department, Of
! fers the information that the 1921 per-
| iod of cigar production fell $50, 805, 104
cigars behind the same period of the
| previous year There is however, this
| encouraging feature about'it, that the
greatest loss came in January and that
there has been steady pickup in pro-
duction since April. While the deficit
| was 80 per cent in January, it was only
f7 per cent in August, as compared with
the 1920 figures. 1t is also worthy of
| note that August showed an increased
production of class A cigars of 46.1 per
| cent over the same month year ago;
small cigsrs and cigarettes also showed
substantial increase. The August
showing holds out the reasonable hope
that September to December should
make similarly good showing.
! The monthly crop report just made
public by the Department of Agricul-
| ture states that the indicated total pro-
| duction of tobacco on October | was
991, 564, 900 pounds, an increase Of A.
240 pounds over the figure predicted on
September /. This is considerably be-
low the December, 1920, estimate of
1,508, O64, 600 pounds, and is also below
the l9l5-1919 average of 1,217, III, 900
pounds. but this is accounted for by the