The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-04-07
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stand taken by this paper on the ad-
visibility of materially reducing the
acreage Of tobacco to be planted this
season. Several of them are men who
own farms in the townships of Dane
county producing the best type of leaf,
men who have always sold at advan-
! tageous prices. and who also got
the best figures for the 1921 crop,
and who, therefore, can not be accused
of talking from sense of having been
injured by low prices. One of these
farmers is Herman 0. Lien, town of
Christiana. He stated that ne thought
it would be wholesome move to re-
duce the acreage about one-third, and
then increase the effort in producing as
Igood leaf as soil and weather and skill
combined can bring forth. In his opin-
ion this should be done in order to allow
the holders of old leaf time and chance
to dispose of it before the market again
becomes overstocked with another crop.
If on the reduced acreage good crop
of tobacco is produced, he thought the
chances of the grower to hold for
better price, and to succeed, would be
greatly enhanced. One grower who
has raised large acreage, but during
| the past two years has not sold well,
said: 81 am through; no more tobacco
for me-. Now this is hardly the prop
er attitude. Hogs, cattle, grain and
tobacco have many year brought their
owners disappointment. Merchants have
reverses. Tobacco dealers frequently
have to take severe losses. If the
and 1920 high priced tobacco, the very
tobacco which made the growers happy,
would have stories to tell about losses
that would sound almost incredible.
Reverses must be taken courageously.
Tobacco alone has not made Wisconsin
rich, but il has helped to increase the
wealth of the state 1t will continue
to do so if wisely handled. Soil unfit
for tobacco should not be used for that
purpose; bat the farmer who has soil
\ E,Whfeh properly cultivated and suffic-
iently fertilized will in an average good
year produce good tobacco, should con-
tinue to grow some. The best Wiscon-
sin binder is used for the best cigars
made; and as long as there are men
who will smoke the best cigars, there
is market for the best Wisconsin leaf
But the intelligent grower will adjust
his production to the demand, and then
make this production Of quality to
command fair profit.
#**
A prominent cigar manufacturer is
Iquoted as having made the following
statement with reference to the pro-
| tests now being lodged against the pro-
lposed tariff on imported wrapper leaf:
'"To Senator La Toilette it should GER
tainly be of interest that his state pro-
duces $4,000, 900 pounds oe leaf tobacco
annually, devoting $4,000 acres to it's
cultivation, and that Wisconsin binders,
the product of his state, is used almost
exclusively in connection with Sumatra
tobacco. The more the manufacturers
have to pay for their wrappers the less
they will be able to pay for Wisconsin
binders.
Senator La Toilette is a member of
the senate committee having the mat
ter under consideration.
***
In discussing the movement of CO.
operative marketing plans now popular
in so many of the tobacco growing
states, S A. B.. Hartford, Conn.,, cor
respondent to Tobacco Leaf, gives the
following account of the movement in
Connecticut:
| The Windsor Locks section of Con-
necticut Valley has been hard hit by the
lull in the tobacco market and in an eff
fort to find way out of their present
predicament growers held a meeting
recently when all phases of the situa-
tion were gone over. Judge Levi P.
M. Hickey, an extensive East Hartford
grower, in his remarks, said that all
producers must stand together. The
cooperative associations started in this
country in California and spread through
many states. The California men were
organized 95 per cent and this fact
greatly helped their business In the
Burley district in Kentucky there are
65, 900 growers in one cooperative sell
ing organization. The Connecticut to-
bacco growing is not on the basis for
trades and growers must stand togeth-
er and get the best for the work they
do, and they must get price that will
give them living wage for the work
they do. Other speakers urged the
formation of an organization and told
of it's advantages. A similar meeting
is to be held in the South Windsor dis
trict in the immediate future. The
Hartford County FERN Bureau is as
ssting in the project, the bureau hav-
ing approved a plan of organization.
There are at present Al, 600 acres Of to-
bacco grown in Connecticut, 10000
acres of which are produced IN Hart
ford county, and it is the plan TO have
all producers join the organization and
cooperate in growing and buying, as
4 ~,,ll cQt1inn That