Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-08
HOW TOHANDLE THE CROP

To Pool Tobacco Raisers:-
Please be guided by the following
rules IN the stripping and handling Of
your crop of tobacco:
1t is safer to remove the tobacco
from the pole when it is coming in
case rather than TO take il down when
going out of case and do not take it
down in high case.
Please pile the tobacco in round
piles when removing it from the pole.
Please do not mix the late tobacco
with the early tobacco when taking it
from the pole.
When removing the tobacco from
the pole, please take down the late to-
bacco first.
When all of the late tobacco has
been taken from the pole, then take
down the early tobacco.
Please make piles of late tobacco
separate from the piles of early to-
bacco.
Please do not mix the late tobacco
with the early tobacco when stripping
and strip the late tobacco first, and
do not mix the late tobacco with the
early tobacco in the bundle.
Grades to make in stripping:
(al Fillers,to include broken leaves
and be clean and free of trash and
dead leaves.
(b) Crops fit to assert, to be clean
and free of filters, broken leaves, trash,
and other damaged leaves.
(c) Crops unfit to assert, with fill
ers to be stripped in, and to be clean
and free of trash and dead leaves.
i'd Hail cut crops unfit to assert,
with filters stripped in, and to be clean
and free of trash and dead leaves.
(e) Hail cut crops fit to assert, to
be clean and free of filters, dead
leaves and trash.
Please pack leaves straight in the
bundle box with even butts.
Please do not tie in hands filters or
any other tobacco.
Please clean out trash well and put
it on the tobacco beds.
Please do not single filler bundles
or any other bundles.
Please do not keep bundles in the
COW barn.
Please do not put snow or water on
the tobacco when stripping.
Please keep wet stems and high case
tobacco out of tobacco in the bundle
and dry it before delivering. Hang
it on the pole again if in high case
and let it get bone dry, then in case
again, before taking it from the pole.
Please do not put muddy tobacco in
the filters, but put it on the tobacco
beds.
Please wrap each bundle with heavy
tobacco paper in such a way that it
will lap several inches end tie each
bundle with good grade of tobacco
Irvine with or 4 strings.
Please make one bulk of bundles Of
late tobacco and another bulk of early
tobacco. Such bulks may be separat-
ed by board, stick, or Irvine.
Before stripping the crop, please
build a platform in the tobacco shed
on the ground, from timbers or poles
and build it so high that the melting
SHOWS will not touch the top of it, and
ont it place the tobacco bundles on the
side only, covering the bulk with car
pets, canvas, etc. The platform should
be built in a part of the shed where
the tobacco will be safe from rain and
driving SHOWS.
When a crop is mixed and contains
stemmilng tobacco as well as tobacco
fit to assert, it viii prove profitable to
strip each separately by packing the
stemming filters into one bundle box,
and the tobacco suitable to assert,
which is to be clean and free of filters,
into the other bundle box, and also
make a separate bulk of bundles of
each kind.
Each crop of tobacco will be graded
and the grade of it as well as value
will depend in large part on the quail
ity size, handling Of it, and its con-
dition.
Your hearty cooperation is invited.
Respectfully,
Northern Wis. Cooperative Tob. Pool.