The Wisconsin tobacco reporter., April 10, 1914, Image 1

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VOLUME 40
Bnsiness Directory.
Wisconsin Tobacco Statistics.
Tobacco growing began in Wisconsin
art years ago.
15 counties now produce t C*
42,200 acres were grown ir w l $ n •
Average yield in Wiscdite.~ u i
50.000,000 pounds. .
Brings Wisconsin farmers annual in
come of $6,000,000.
$2,000,000 spent annually for handling,
storage and insurance.
Edgerton has 54 warehouses on insur -
ance map. , _ , .
The sixth important agricultural in
dustry in the state.
HENRY JOHNSON,
Fire, Tornado, Life and Accident
Insurance,
' HDGERTON, WISCONSIN.
jy"OfflceJn Schmeling Block.
W. T. POMEROY & CO.,
Dealers in and paokers of
Leaf Tobacco,
Edgerton, - Wisconsin.
O. G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN
HANSEN BROS.,
(Successors to O. G. Hansen)
Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
EDGERTON* - WIS
GEORGE M. DECKER
DEALER IN
Leaf Tobacco
Tobacco Storage
Janesville, Wisconsin.
" ANDREW JENSON & SONS,
Packers of and Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco,
PUBLIC STORAGE.
3c per case per month
EDGERIOIS, • WISCONSIN.
C. E. SWEENEY,
DEALER IN
Leaf Tobaccc,
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN
OT C. LEL.
Dealer Li and Packer of
Leaf Tobacco,
STOUGHTON, - WISCONSIN.
HEINRICH NEUBERGER
EXPORTER
Bremen, 145 Water St.
Germany. New York, N. Y.
E ROSENWALD & BRO.
SUCCESSOR TO
E. Rc9enwald & Bro. and I. Bijur *V Son,
OF
Leaf Tobacco,
145 Water Street,
New York City.
S. C. CHAMBERS,
DEALER IN AND PACKER OF
Leaf Tobacco,
MILTON JUNCTION, WIS.
The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Co.J
Dealers in and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
SPARTA, WISCONSIN.
HASKINS & SCHWARTZ
Packers of Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, Wisconsin
*iobacco Suck&tiqfc
EDGERTON, WISCONSIN.
Capital Stock - • * $50,000.00
Surplus .... $30,000.00
3 Per Cent, paid on Savings Deposits and Certificates
Checks on Ail Foreign Countries Sold.
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Officers and Directors:
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Pres, and Cashier Vice-President
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W. A. SHELLEY, C. G. BIEDERMAN
ALEX WHITE.
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Packer of and Dealer in
LEAF TOBACCO.
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN.
FRAZIER M. DOLBEER, Proprietor
Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection
ESTABLISHED IN 1864.
F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON & CO.
Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers *25 Warehousemen
Office, 182 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches In all of the principal tobacco districts
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COLSON E HAMILTON, FRANK P. WISEBURN,
LOUIS BUHLE
Formerly with F. C. Linde. Hamilton & Cos.
C. C. HAMILTON & CO.,
Tobacco Inpsectors, Warehousemen, Weighers
M alnOff Ice—B4-85 South Street, New York.
THOS. B. MARLE, Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Telephone No, 23
SANFORD SO VERH ILL
DEALER IN AND PACKER OF
LEAF TOBACCO
Janesville, - Wisconsin.
- £S
LEAF TOBACCO
No. 5 South Adams St. Janesville. Wis.
GREENS’ TOBACCO CO.,
Dealers in Leaf Tobacco,
STORAGE GAPAOITY, - 15,000 OASES
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
L. B. CARLE & SON,
Packers of and Dealers in
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.j
EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1914.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES
The tobacco seed question created
something of a ruction in the meeting
of Dane county tobacco growers in con
junction with the Society of Equity,
held at Madison on Saturday last. A
signed article of the tobacco dealers of
this state, published in this column last
week, warning growers against plant
ing hybrid tobacco seemed to have
prompted the discussion that disclosed
that Equity members were somewhat
interested in the dispensing of the hy
brid varieties of seed. The meeting
listened to an address by Dr. Chas.
McCarthy, of the legislative reference
library, on co-operative marketing, who
urged that tobacco growers should first
determine the best varieties of tobacco
to plant, then bring it up to one gen
eral standard and then get in touch
with the College of Agriculture as to
the best ways of growing and co-opera
tion for the purpose of selling. He
cautioned the Equity society against
letting politics enter into their delib
erations or factions would result. Prof.
J. B. Johnson, of the University Hor
ticultural Department, in charge of to
bacco experiments, was invited to be
present with an address upon the
steaming of plant beds, and when the
seed discussion was sprung he was
asked if he had advised growers not to
plant hybrid varieties and admitted
that he had probably done so as he
deemed the Comstock Spanish or Con
necticut Havana Seed the best types
for Wisconsin growers. He also took
occasion to say that in his opinion the
Equity society was making a mistake
in provoking a discussion over the seed
question. Out of four or five thousand
growers in the state not over 100 were
present and he believed the growers
generally would plant what varieties
the dealers wanted despite what the
meeting said or did. President Lyman,
of the Equity society, warmly replied
and scathingly arraigned the university
for meddling with matters of this kind
as well as other things. He said it
looked to him as though the tobacco
.dealers were trying to put something
over on the farmers on the seed ques
tion and called upon Mr. H. S. Pom
eroy to tell what he knew about it.
Mr. Pomeroy said he was the orig
inator of the Northern Hybrid variety
of seed which he had been growing and
selling for years and he defied any
dealer to find fault with it regarding
size or quality. He also proposed to
see that the dealers signing the pro
test statement take the ban off the
seed he was disseminating. It occurs
to the writer that Mr. Pomeroy ought
to get another name if his seed is all he
claims for it. Altogether this was
quite a lively meeting. In the after
noon Prof. Johnson gave his talk on
the steaming of plant beds at the uni
versity horticultural building.
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*
The only interest The Reporter can
have in this seed discussion is in trying
to enlighten the growers of the state
in regard to what varieties of seed are
most advantageous to plant that the
reputation of our tobacco in the mar
kets of the country will be best main
tained. The personal views of the seed
growers are nowhere as important as
the kind of Wisconsin binder leaf the
market wants. If the grower expects
to meet this demand and secure the top
price for his product, he will be pretty
sure to take this view of the case. It
cannot be gainsaid that growers plant
too much runout and impure seed. Now
is a good time to start right—find out
the most suitable varieties and secure
guaranteed seed from reliable growers.
* *
*
W. W. Powell, one of the most suc
cessful growers of Vernon county, in a
published statement, advises ail farm
ers to grow the Spanish or Havana
type of leaf. The only varieties he
recommends for this state are the Ex
periment Station Spanish, Comstock
Spanish and Connecticut Havana. Get
your seed, he says, from a reliable
dealer who will guarantee its purity
and quality. Don’t experiment with
every old kind of seed that comes along.
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*
Edgerton, Wis.', April 6, 1914.
My attention having been called to
the attempt of Mr. Rumrill of Janes
ville, Wisconsin, to disparage the use
and sale of the tobacco seed I am now
offering for sale to the growers, under
the name of hybrid, I have taken the
matter up with my attorneys who are
instructed to bring such action and
take such steps as they may deem ad
visable to the end that the tobacco
growers of Wisconsin may know wheth
er or not the tobacco raised from my
seed is subject to the infirmities he
claims. In this connection it may be
well to inform the farmers that Mr.
Rumrill is himself a dealer in tobacco
seed, and, as such, cannot be consid
ered a disinterested adviser in respect
to said matter. lam ready at all times
to meet fair and honest competition
and honest trade methods; and I am
also prepared to show the tobacco
grower that my seed is all I claim it to
be; and that it does not produce tobac
co having the infirmities Mr. Rumrill
claims it has, and that it produces as
profitable a crop as can be grown in
the state of Wisconsin, and one which
will sweat ana cure out as well as any
tobacco grown in the state.
H. S. Pomeroy.
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
Edgerton, Wis., April 10, 1914.
Bad weather and worse roads have
proven quite a handicap to the tobacco
movements in the country during the
week. Buying of the remnants of the
crop is practically suspended for the
present or until the highways are more
passable. Warehouse handling con
tinues to claim the full attention of the
packers who have a good deal of bundle
loaf to case, which they hope to have
completed before warm weather ar
rives. The market for old leaf appears
to be passing through a dull period.
The indications now point to a late
spring and nothing has yet been done
towards the plant beds for another
crop.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 400 cases from this market to all
points since last report, with about 12
car loads received for warehous han
dling.
New York.
New York, April 4, 1914.
The complaint of dullness in our leaf
market for the past week or so finds
its rational explanation in the official
returns of the country’s cigar output
during the month of February, pub
lished in another column. According
to these returns there was a decrease
in the output of large cigars of the
considerable quantity of 32,727,096.
This loss was undoubtedly due chiefly
to*the horrible weather conditions which
prevailed during the month of Febru
ary throughout the entire country.
Owing to the severe frosts and heavy
snowfalls during that month transport
ation was impeded to a large extent
and the volume of business curtailed in
nearly every line. For to this natural
impedement the decrease of nearly
thirty millions in the output of cigar
ettes—the first decrease in the cigar
ette output for any period during many
years —must also be ascribed. But
with the recurrence of Spring weather
trading is expected to improve again
and both our cigar industry and leaf
activities are likely to make a better
showing in the near future. Yester
day’s third Sumatra inscription at Am
sterdam resulted in a far larger partic
ipation by American purchasers than
at the first two inscriptions. Out of
16,566 bales of Sumatra offered, 3,300
bales were taken for the American
market, a by far larger quantity than
was acquired at either of the preceding
inscriptions. Evidently the tobacco of
fered must have contained a larger per
centage of leaf appropriate for the
American market and prices must have
been shaded down also. Nevertheless,
the acquisition was by a thousand bales
less than purveyed for the American
market at the third inscription last
year and the total purchase so far by
4,500 bales less than the quantity pur
chased last year at the first three in
scriptions by American buyers.—Jour
nal.
New York, April 1, 1914.
The month which came to an end
yesterday was a poor month so far as
actual sales were concerned. It seems
to have been a month of waiting on the
part of the manufacturers and jobbers,
who want to see a little further ahead
before committing themselves to heavy
outlay in raw materials. Bad weather
and the political uncertainty are the
principal reasons assigned for the poor
trade—one making much business im
possible, and the other provoking a
cautious spirit among the purchasing
trade. There are several signs which
indicate that better business is a mat
ter of the not far distant future. Job
bers and retailers of cigars are said to
be generally understocked, and if for
any reason the purchasing public should
soon manifest a liberal spirit, there is
no doubt that the factories would be
busy in a week, and this would of
course be reflected in the cigar leaf
market.
Such transactions as have taken place
in the past month have been in domes
tic binders and shade-grown wrappers.
Both types are in demand. —Leaf.
Pennsylvania.
Lancaster, Pa., March 30, 1914.
The tobacco growers of Lancaster
county are complaining that the buy
ers are not coming around to inspect
their crops. The growers, even those
who are not members of the new Seed
Leaf Tobacco Growers’ association, in
trenched themselves under its cover
and asked, for awhile, prices that the
packers couldn’t even think of accept
ing ten, eleven, twelve cents for
wrapper goods and two and a half to
four cents for fillers. Keeping in view
the fact that they are only getting
eight to ten cents for their 1909 goods,
and not over sixteen cents for their
J 912, the buyers wisely concluded that
the 1913 crop was away beyond them,
and they would want none of it. Since
the large concerns stopped buying
paying nine or ten cents—a few of the
local packers entered the field, so that
probably a third of the crop has been
disposed of. But the majority of the
local packers have not bought a pound
yet, being determined to keep hands
off until prices come down. They are
coming now, and there are plenty of
growers who are willing to take low
prices for their goods.
New England.
Springfield, Mass., Mch. 31, 1914.
Asa result of three days of rain, the
roads in many Connecticut valley towns
are impassable, wagons sinking nearly
to the hubs in mud. There is still
some frost in the ground, and the sea
son is at least two weeks late.
Interest centers almost wholly in the
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whether earning a small
weekly wage, or enjoy
ing a large income,
should lay aside some
portion regularly for fu
ture emergency and use.
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pendent on you. Our
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count, and welcomes
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First National
BANK
Edgerton, - Wisconsin
Capital . $50,000.00
Surplus 9,500.00
rr—rnmnniww m ..tmu
Geo. W. Doty - Preeident
E. G. Bussey Vice President
L. A. Anderson - Cashier
J. F. Hruska, Asst. Cashier
H. T. SWEENEY,
PACKER OP
Leaf Tobacco
Tobacco Bought and Sold
on Commission.
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin
C. J. JONES & SON
Packers of and Dealers in
All Kinds of
Leaf Tobacco
616 South Main Street and 220 and 222
North Main Street
Janesville, - Wisconsin.
C. F MABBETT
Dealer in Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Mclntosh bros.
Packers of Choice Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Always in the market for old goods.
Edgerton, - Wisconsin
E. M. HUBBELL
Dealer and Packer of
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton - - Wisconsin
J. F. REICHARD
Packer and Dealer in
Leaf Tobacco
York, - Pa.
EUGENE SORENSON
Packer of Northern Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Whitehall, Wis.
R. H. IIOLTAN
Dealer in and Packer of
Leaf Tobacco
Whitehall,Wis.
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