The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-01-13
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given out the following statement con-
-cerning the prospects of trade in 1922.
We quote from. u. S. Tobacco Journal,
Dec 81. 1921:
Il will say that I am more optimis-
tic over the business prospects for 1922
than | was for 1921, a year ago. Last
year, the retailer, jobber and some man
ufacturers were heavily stocked with
cigars, and this stock, in many instances,
consisted of an inordinate proportion
of two for twenty five cents and fifteen
cent cigars. When the business de-
preston came along, these stocks were
offered to the public at sacrifice prices,
and this caused confusion in the minds
of the consumer and often times worked
an injury to Class E cigars. | cannot
recall house-cleaning on cigars such
as occurred in 1921"
Editorially, the Journal comments up
on the outlook and states it looks like
a good year for the trade" and offers
the following advice
A stiff upper lip, a little hustle and
a determination to put it across will
make 1922 year of healthy, sane and
sound progress, and It is possible, one
Of the most nationally prosperous per-
iods the industry has known in many
years.
The Tobacco Leaf in an editorial,
"The Promise of 1922" parts with the
old year by saying: Thank God it is
over" 1t adds: 1T might have been
worse" and gives as the reason that
the tobacco industry committed fewer
indiscretions during the period of in
hation than most industries. Still, al
SO the tobacco trade had to go through
the fry trial, and has come out purged.
The Leaf views the prospects for bus
mess and prosperity during the new
year as hopeful, and points to the last
Government survey which states that
new era of prosperity may be looked
for before the new year is very old.
The survey calls attention to the fact
that rather energetic buying move
n1ent is in ascendancy.
All this is very good; and it must
be the fervent hope of all that it is
more than pious new year wish.
M**
TOBACCO" New York;, quoting
from The Berlin Tobacco Gazette, says :,
Es&rhe Berlin Tobacco Gazette says the
German crop Of 1921 is unfit for the
manufacture Of cigars. The ground
LEAVES are short and heavy. They will
not burn, as they should, says the Ga
zette. Consequently cigars are bound
to be an expensive luxury in Germany,
since German manufacturers cannot al
ford to buy foreign tobacco to make
up for the failure of the domestic crop.
Any perceptible improvement IN the rate
of exchange, however, would i1nmedl-
ate1y stimulate imports, for storehouseS
are almost exhausted. Germany'S imam
cial restoration would improve the
worlds tobacco market tremendously.
Esx
The economic conference at Cannes,
now meeting may stra1ghten out some
| of the most serious of European and
world economic and financial tangles.
| The fact that Germany and Russia have
both been called to send representatives
| to the conference augures we'll for the
| success of it. The people OF the
United States, including the tobacco
producers within it, have realized what
| it means not to have a market for it's
| surplus product. It has taught us the
| futility of good crops and large 1ar-
| vests if our neighbors across the sea
have not the means to come into our
| markets to buy. The u. S. is just as
much interested in the setting up IN
| Europe OF a new prosperity as are the
European nations themselves. Our
prosperity depends in no small degree
upon theirs.
| Not all tobacco types are grown tor
| the purpose of being smoked, snuffed
/ or chewed The "Rustica" is a type of
| tobacco grown in Lancaster county. Pa,
| which is raised for its high nicotine
! content, and is used to produce nlco-
| tine for the nicotine spray. Mr.. Otto
| Olson has been breeding this type OF
| tobacco to increase its nicotine con-
tent, and has succeeded on Lancaster
county soil. Rustica has been tried on
other soils, but not with the success,
| obtained in Lancaster county. The or
! igina1 of this species of tobacco IS said
to have come from Russia.
| The California growers of tobacco
who are producing a type that is claim
,Zed to have the properties OF Turkish
] tobacco tor high grade cigarettes are
bombarding the congressional commit
tee, working on the permanent tariff
schedule, to increase the tariff on i'm
ported leaf. They do not want 10 sell
in competition with growers lbf to-
bacco in foreign countries of the same
type that may be grown here.
Against this move the big manufac-
turers of cigarettes and cigars are mo-
bilizing an attack on the committee not
to increase the duty on imported leaf,
filters and scrap tobacco. The tight
is likely to grow warm before the sched-
ules are agreed upon by the committee
in charge of the matter.
Mr.. P. " Hoyle, the able editor OF
Bales and Gases in the u. S. Tobacco
Journal, became, with the beginning OF
the present year, associate editor OF
the Journal. He has been on the Jour