The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-10-07
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES.


bacco this year was 16,0o9a. That the
actual acreage may overrun this figure
is probable The $1,000 acre figure is,
however, near enough correct to base
an estimate of weight on. The tobac-
co may not weigh in proportion to its
size; it is likely to cure out thin leaf,
but there is sufficient balance in favor
of good weight in the high percentage
of long sizes. That the county will
produce approximately 24,000, coo lbs.
may be fair estimate. The town of
Christiana again heads the list with
1901 acres, Pleasant Springs is close
second with 1875, and Albion third with
1924. Dunkirk steps into fourth place
with 1864, Cottage Grove is fifth with
1879 acres and Windsor sixth, having
grown 1OO1a aares. Among the vii
lagos DeForest leads with 36 acres,
Oregon is next with 78 acres, and Cam
bridge is third with 81 acres. The con-
ISOLATION prize falls to York among the
townships, only acres grown, and to
Marshall among the villages with lone
acre of the weed. The acreage for
each town, village and city in Dane
county is reported to County Clerk
Fjelstad as follows: Albion 1924, Bloom
ing Gnove 723, Bristol 663, Burke 925,
Christiana 1901, Cottage Grove 11273,
Dane 2511, DeerfieId 642, Dunkirk 1864,
Dunn 8161, Fitchburg 263, Madison 20,
Medina 80, Middleton 10a, Oregon 265a,
Pleasant Springs 1875, Rutland 973,
Springfield los, Sun Prairie 564, Verona
IL, Vienna 925a, Westport 558, Windsor
1001a, York 2; Villages Cambridge 81,
Dane 80, Deerfeld 17a, DeForest Sc,
Marshall 1, Oregon II, Rockdale IL,
Sun Prairie 49; Stoughton, city, IS.
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The Sterneman Bros. Co. of Milwau-
kee holds that next to Connecticut
Broadleaf, northern Wisconsin leaf is
the best binder stock on the market.
1t is tobacco of perfect burn and
neutral taste, not killing Havana or
any other filler. It's great yield makes
it also desirable. The 1921 southern
should share with the northern in all
ca Sc qualities, if it comes through the
5scure and packing handling in good
shape, The curing conditions at pres
ent are favorable.
The following from the U. S. Tobac-
co Journal is ''good sense: The only
far sighted policy for merchants and
| manufacturers to pursue at this time,
in the tobacco trade as we'll as in 9TH
ers, is the expansion of sales on mar
row margin of profit. The recent de-
velopments IN the cigar and cigarette
industries, IN which prices have been
| adjusted to better meet 1921 conditions,
are a concession to the wisdom of this
policy and show that the leading mem
| bers of our industry are not only in
! formed as to the fundamentals of good
business but are willing to make what
ever sacrifices are necessary to restore
trading to stable basis. The full tide
of the American buying power will not
be realized until American workmen
again have weekly access to the CASH
ier's windows. The manufacturer or
merchant who sacrifices his profits for
the purpose of putting the largest pos
sible number Of people back to work
will be doing more to restOr prosper
ity than all the congressional investi-
cations and all the learned disquisitions
written by theorists and professors and
economists and editors in the country.
And the Tobacco Leaf in s'The Long,
Strong Pull" says: If every manu-
facturer, every travelling salesman,
every jobber and particularly each Of
the three hundred thousand retailers in
| the tobacco business would stretch him
self just little bit farther and lift just
little bit harder, the autumn and holi-
day cigar and tobacco business might
easily be raised to the level of nor
malcy. The salesman, the jobber and
| the manufacturer should follow up
clOSeIy, not only WITH the mOral en-
couragement of optimism and enthusi-
asm, but materially, with good adver-
tising, good service and all favorable
concessions consistant with sound
business policy.
| From an editorial in u. S.. Tobacco
Journal, ''The Cost of Service: The
actual cost of service as applied to
| the sale and distribution of natural pro-
ducts and manufactured commodities
generally, has not been figured go con-
cretely in recent memory as it is in a
report which Representative Sidney
Anderson, chairman of the Joint Com
mission of Agricultural Inquiry, has
just made public. Representative An
derson finds that 49 cents of every dol
lar spent by Americans go for spack
| ing, transportation, grading, insurance,
selling, advertising, display, wages,
rent, and overhead, in other words,
| for service. Production takes only
81 cents out of the dollar and profits IA
cents. Goods are sold," says Con-