The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-11-10
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DuIlH kOSU2J, JdChSUu (4SIJ, COuHtISS
during the 1922 season amounts to
10,6415 acres. Barron county had about
ITO acres in 1921 and Trempeleau county
had 1920 last year. This would bring
the total to IL, 131 acres for the coun-
ties mentioned. If the other northern
counties, not heard from, that produce
tobacco are credited with 1000 acres it
would bring the total northern acreage
this year to about 5000 acres. As this
is as nearly correct as it can be made
without taking an actual census, we be-
lieve must be admitted This, of
course, does not include Columbia
county which as a general thing is
placed at the halfway between north
ern and southern types.
How much of this tobacco has al
ready been contracted for? Many have
asked this question. The Reporter has
approached the firms who have bought
1922 northern tobacco. Thirteen or
fourteen firms have been active in Sc
curing contracts. These have, of
course, been written for tobacco not
owned by the Pool. The responses are
not all in, but enough have been re-
ceived to give fair idea of the acre
age taken, and it is much larger than
most people have been willing to ad-
init. The figures here given are COR
rect. For very good reasons we can
not publish the acreage bought by each
firm, but we have correct total of the
acreage bought up to Nov. / for the
parties who so kindly furnished this in
formation, and we hope to be able to
complete the figures by having reports
covering every acre bought to the date
above mentioned. AS the list stood
Nov. 1, and with some firms yet to hear
from, contracts for northern tobacco
covered 040 acres. In other words,
nearly so per cent of the 1922 northern
acreage is now on the contract books of
the independent packers. The unsold
lnon-Pool acreage in the northern
counties we have, of course, no
record Of.
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Executive manager of the Wisconsin
Tobacco Pool, G. A. Hoen, was in Ed.
gerton Friday last week He called at
The Reporter office and discussed the
affairs of the Pool, its plans and aims.
In the conversation many angles of the
Pool situation came in for exchange of
opinions, and new light was thrown on
some phases of the Pool plans which
The Reporter is pleased to communi.
cate to its readers.
One of these is the method of dispos-
ing of stemming stock. The stock
holder growers have been notified ana
specifically instructed how to strip and
clean their tobacco when bundling time
comes. If the growers comply with
the instructions conscientiously, the
clean end should present type of bun
die which is practically free from any
but cigar leaf. All tobacco, whether it
is whole crops or parts of crops, that is
not suitable as sorting leaf will be
separated on the farm and offered to
the stemmers. Trash of all sorts, wet
and otherwise spoiled tobacco will not
be offered for sale, but the growers are
advised to put it back on the field.
Filters, hail-cut, bruised and broken
leaves will be clean and sound from a
stemming standpoint. One stemming
concern operating in the state has al
ready expressed itself ready to talk
business on large portion of what the
Pool may have to offer with the privi-
lage of examining the tobacco on the
farm premises.
Another phase is that of the cigar
leaf part of the crop and how that may
be bought. The trade has until now
labored under the impression that the
cigar leaf, after being bundled and
sampled, would be sold by numbers,
and that the buyer would have to select
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pies alone without having the privilege
OF knowing who the owners of the crops
were or where the tobacco had been
raised. Mr.. Hoen stated that his plan
would be to allow the buyer to exam
inc the samples, and then, if he so de-
sires, be taken by Pool representa-
tive to the individual crops represented
by the samples to select his purchase
with the same freedom which has pre-
vailed in the past, based on type and
grade. In this way every crop of to-
bacco bought could be identified by the
purchaser; he would know what he was
buying. This procedure is based on
sound common sense and fair business
methods. and We predict that on this
basis of transaction there will be no
serious difficulty in the way of dispos-