The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-04-08
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!, 1t has been asserted time and agair
/ in recent months that Wisconsin binder
| leaf is shipped to New York or other
eastern centers, there the best leaf is
taken out and resold both to Wisconsin
and other states as Connecticut wrap
pers. This general talk has not, how
ever, been substantiated with any ac-
| tllal record of such sales to manufac-
| turers. No names of cigar manufac-
| turers thus buncoed have appeared as
evidence of this alleged practice.
If such thing is going on, the man
ufacturers who pay Connecticut wrap
per prices for Wisconsin binders, are
quite sure to look into the matter. Be
sides, pretty close count is held on
the amount of binder leaf produced Of
the Connecticut type lit is not such an
awful lot, t,-and those who sell Wis
| consin binders as Connecticut wrap
pers would soon be found out That the
practice is as general, as the Wiscon-
| sin growers have been led to believe,
| by folks who do lot of loose talking,
is laughed at by experienced tobacco
/ men.
| Under the caption Tobacco Trade in
/ Foreign Lands the Tobacco Leaf, Ber-
| lin, Germany, correspondent mentions
some facts which are of interest to
American tobacco men in this and other
| states. The Reporter has previously
called attention to the situation pre-
| vailing in the European tobacco mark
| ct, and especially in the tobacco market
| of Germany, and contended that Ger
| many needs American tobacco, and will
| take it as soon as trade and exchange
| conditions are made possible by the
arrival at an understanding between
! this country and Germany.
| The Berlin correspondent says that
| Germany has followed the policy of
represSing tobacco consumption. The
repression has cut down consumption,
! but the people are eager to have the
| repression removed and the pre-war
| liberty restored. This was promised
| for July /, 1921. Just what will happen
| between Germany and the Allies before
| that date is not so easy to forecast.
! Neither is it easy to forecast what may
J. happen within Germany itself. But one
| thing is certain, and that is, if it de-
| pends upon Germany alone to settle
the matter of imports of American to-
bacco, she would be ready at any time
! to begin taking our goods. The Ger
! man domestic tobacco, grown especially
/ in south Germany-Baden, is of indif-
| ferent quality and does not please the
j German taste, but since the war the
!! domestic growers have had things
pretty much their own way. Leading
/ Germans are advocating that foreign,
especially American, tobacco be admit
! ted without any restriction.
/ The Germans may not have the gold
on hand to do extensive buying right
away, but they have goods that Amer
j lea can and will Buy, and Germany can
! deliver this goods in this country, ex-
t change it. for American dollars, and
pay for our tobacco in our own coin.
/ What is true of Germany is true of
other European countries, but coun-
try of sixty million people is market
worth having as long as we have the
goods, and they want it,
The success of power farming de-
j pendS upon having the right type of
power to begin with A tractor which
may be utilized for universal motive
| power on the farm not only in the field,
/! but on the home premises, SO well built,
| SO economical in cost and in operating
expenses that even the man on forty
/! acre lot can make use of it prohtably,
will solve the power farming PROPOSE
ton. Next the success of power farm
ing depends upon the skill of the hands
that are to operate the power machine.
| Mechanical knowledge is essential on
the part of all successful operators of
machinery. The day when power farm
| ing becomes the American type of farm
operation, the American farm hand will
| have to be skilled man. It is not
! enough that he is skilled in the hand
!! ling of soil, seeds, methods of cultiva-
ton, knowledge of farm stock, insight
and practice of farm accounting, but
! he must be somewhat skilled me-
| chanic. The best sort of machine
may fall down under the treatment OF
an unskilled operator.
Power farming is undoubtedly going
! to solve to a large extent the farm labor
! problem, but only to the extent tha. the
farm laborer himself has become train
ed for the use and handling of this
power. The drudgery of farm work,
causing many farmers sons and daugh-
tiers to seek the industrial centers for
more congenia1 work, will be relieved
by the power method of farming, and
should tend to make agriculture one of
the really desirable occupations. But
again, this will depend upon the extent
to which the growing generation is
educated for the new method of agri-
cultural operations.
Power farming, when it becomes a
success, will of itself release great
many hands which may seek other oc-
cupations, or be utilized in developing
the millions of acres of untitled land
which yet await the skill and enter
prise of intelligent men.
Power farming is as yet in its in
fancy; but it is making rapid strides
of growth. That the United States
must solve this problem for the rest