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VOLUME 40 Easiness Directory. Wisconsin Tobacco Statistics. Tobacco growing began in Wisconsin 50 years ago. 15 counties now produce tobacco. 42,200 acres were grown in 1912. Average yield in Wisconsin about. 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, BDGEETON, WISCONSIN. or~Offlcein Sehmeling Block. W. T. POMEROY & CO., Dealers in and packers of Leaf Tobacco, Edgerton, - Wisconsin. O. G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN HANSEN BROS., (Successors to O. G. Hansen) Dealers in Leaf Tobacco BDGERTON' - 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 EDOERTON, - WISCONSIN. C. E. SWEENEY. DEALER IN Leaf Tobaccc , EDGERTOIS, - WISCONSIN o. c„ l&l. Dealer l£* and Packer of Leaf Tobacco, STOUGHTON, - WISCONSIN. HEINRICH NEUBERQER EXPORTER Bremen, 145 Water St. Germany. New York, N. Y. E- ROSENWALD & BRO. SUCCESSOR TO E. Ro9enwald & Bro. and I. Bijur A Hon, PACKERS 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 Cos." Dealers in and Packers of Leaf Tobacco SPARTA, WISCONSIN. HASKINS & SCHWARTZ Packers of Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, Wisconsin *sobacco &s.c\\.&wse "Rawk, EDGERTON, WISCONSIN. ' **• s ;k ... $50,000.00 Surplus - - - - $30,000.00 3 Per Cent, paid on Savings Deposits and Certificates Checks on All Foreign Countries Sold. Safety Boxes For Rent at SI.OO. Officers and Directors: ANDREW JENSON W. S. HEDDLES Pres, and Cashier Vice-President Wm. BUSSEY, Asst. Cashier D. L. BABCOCK, W. A. SHELLEY, G G BIEDERMAN ALEX WHITE. Staa-t Him Right , If you want to do your friend Ml Tt!B IMPERIAL 10 Cigar | MAX NO. 10, 0c will give him more tobacco sat- I isfaction than any other cigar I /#( on the mar g et - Let him a X ) X taste of the rich, pure tobacco W f/3 V flavor found in our cigars and W c C pX.irr3 v / he will enioy it. Edgerton Cigar Cos., Edgerton, Wisconsin. T. B. EARLE 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 A. H. OLARKE, Special Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Badger ’Phone No. 71 A TRIAL. OF THE TOBACCO CITY and EL INSITO TOBACCO CLIPPINGS Will convince you they have no equal. Ask for them anywhere. EL INSITO CIGAR CO., Edgerton, Wisconsin COLSON E HAMILTON. FRANK P. WISEBURN, LOUIS BUHLE Formerly with F. C. Linde. Hamilton & Cos. C. C. HAMILTON & CO., Tobacco Inpsectors, Warehousemen. Weighers MalnOfflce—B4-85 South Street, New York. THOS. B. EARLE, Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Telephone No, 23 SANFORD SOVERHILL DEALER IN AND PACKER OF LEAF TOBACCO Janesville, - Wisconsin. S. B. MEDDLES DEALER IN LEAF TOBACCO No. 5 South Adams St. Janesville, Wis. GREENS’ TOBACCO CO., Dealers in Leaf Tobacco, STORAGE CAPACITY, - 15,000 OASES Janesville, - - Wisconsin. L. B. CARLE & SON, Packers of and Dealers in Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, - - Wisconsin.! EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1914. NOTE BOOK SKETCHES The discussion of the tobacco seed question ought not to end without something being written concerning the more or less blame the tobacco dealers should share for the planting of the hybrid seed they now complain about. In previous years when field buying prevailed to such a large extent and an army of buyers were engaged, many of whom not the best judges of good tobacco, the big showy leaf, always most attractive in the field, was first picked and contracted for at top prices. The growers, therefore, were led to believe that the large showy leaf was what the buyers wanted and continued to plant the kind that was the best seller. Their interest, of course, ended when the crop was sold and had little knowledge of what happened to the to bacco in the cure after it had passed out of their hands. This indiscriminate field buying, it appears, resulted in a good deal of damage in the hybrid leaf which growers secured in buying im mature tobacco, and now the packers have united in an effort to discourage the planting of this type of leaf, but when the facts in the case are all known they cannot very well escape the censure of bringing the trouble on themselves. The situation, however, does not effect the real issue that hy brid seed is not the safe seed to plant. The last nickel due the planters on account of the great tobacco pools of 1907 and 1909 has been paid by the Burley society, and checks have been sent out from the headquarters at Lex ington. With the distribution of the last of the funds of the pool the Burley Tobacco society goes out of existence, many of the functions of that organ ization being performed by the Burley Tobacco C 0.," which has a factory in Louisville and makes among other lines City Club smoking tobacco. The total amount paid out in the final distribu tion was $316,052.54, which was scat tered among the planters of 52 coun ties of Kentucky and some of the coun ties of southern Indiana and Ohio. The money is being distributed through the county organizations of the society, the cheeks for the growers in each county being sent to the county seat banks, where the members of the pool ex change their warehouse receipts for the checks. The money which went out March 27th represents the per centages held out to fight any litiga tion which might be begun attacking the pools. It formed the basis of a number of suits to compel its distribu tion and it was following the decision of the Court of Appeals in one of the suits that a fight was made on the of ficers of the present Burley Tobacco Cos. However, the present organiza tion won out and everything is now harmonious. Of the money just sent out, $191,755.42 represents the 1907 pool, and the balance that of 1909. Mason county receives the largest amount, $15,000 from the 1907 pool and $9,000 from the one of 1909. The lat est chapter in the suit against the Bur ley Tobacco Cos. was written this week in Covington, when Judge Tracy prac tically ruled that the attorneys tor the plaintiffs against the company should be paid their fees out of the assets of the company. It is likely that an ap peal will be taken from the decision. The anti-trust bills introduced into the House have undergone by this time a remarkable metamorphosis. The sting of viciousness, the venom of mal ice, even the implacableness of radical enmity against any and all kinds of business that has fallen under the dis pleasure of demagogism seem to have been drawn from them in their recon struction with the saner views and wishes and the visible anxiety of Presi dent Wilson to save the business of tne country from the damaging conse quences of further disturbance by radi cal legislation. The president better than anybody else in the present Dem ocratic government atmosphere of Washington seems to realize the sen sitiveness of the country caused by the sudden and rapid changes of our gov ernmental policies, and as he has pro nounced himself as a preacher of peace and freedom he naturally feels resent ful at the prospects of having the busi ness peace of the country broken up, and the business freedom of the coun try fettered by too many and too severe restrictions. In consequence of this presidential attitude the anti-trust bills have been so changed as to permit cor porations engaged in interstate or for eign commerce to form subsidiary cor porations provided that the effect of it is not to eliminate or lessen pre-exist ing competition. This modification is of utmost importance to the number of our large cigar manufacturing cor porations, who have of late years ac quired subsidiary corporations in the same line, the entire stock or part of which went into possession of the par ent company. Without this modifica tion the dissolution or disintegration of certain of our large cigar manufactur ing corporations would have had to fol low the passage of the anti-trust bills as originally planned. Other great and radical modifications and on the whole most salutory were made in the bill for the creation of an Interstate Trade Commission, which in its original shape was the most inquisitory and un-Amer ican measure ever drafted. As changed, however, only corporations of five mil lion dollars and over are to come under the control and supervision of the com mission and the original unrestricted meddling of the federal agents with every phase of a business concern’s activity from its purchases, manufact uring and distributing to its bookkeep ing and the mandatory provision of the undisguised publicity of any and all se crets of a business concern, has been dropped altogether and the publicity mandate left to the discretion of the president alone. —U. S. Tob. Journal. WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET. Edgerton, Wis., April 17, 1914. The balance of the 1913 tobacco crop is moving rather slowly these days. An occasional lot reaches delivery points, but there is very little activity anywhere throughout the growing dis tricts. A few car loads have been picked up by a Pennsylvania jobber and shipped east for handling of late. The warehouse help is thinning out so that packing operations are liable to be carried along for some weeks yet by the larger operators. No news of any importance has reached us in the mar ket for old leaf. High taxation we hear so much about is likely to have its effect upon the to bacco industry of this state. We learn on good authority that about 7,000 cases of old leaf is scheduled to leave the state before May Ist in order to escape assessment made at that date and consequent taxes, which are much lower in eastern storage points. The goods would otherwise remain here un til needed for consumption and owners do not object to paying taxes at fair rates, but the enormous increase in late years has prompted the movement. Growers have commenced to lay the seed beds for another crop during the week and weather conditions indicate spring has come to stay. The shipments out of storage reach about 2200 es for the week to all points from this market. Receipts, 12 cars. Stoughton, Wis., April 12, 1914. Several leaf warehouse still continue work, with a shortage of hands in some instances, owing to the return for the spring labors of part of the handling force. Most of the buyers say that it will take a month yet to complete the prcking of 1913. O. C. Lee finished this week after putting up about 500 cases of last year’s crop. New York. New York, April 11, 19M. Market conditions are not up to ex pectations. The feeling of depression that seems to permeate just now the business world at large appears to have infected also the leaf market with gloomy forebodings. It is not the un usually long and severe winter which is being chiefly held responsible for the drawbacks in business movements but the cause is being ascribed rather to our political atmosphere as being preg nant with changes threatening business stability and expansion. If merchants start in a season that should De devoted exclusively to their business affairs to think and talk of politics and of the aspects of legislation on their fortunes then there must be more in the air of it than a mere temporary embarrass ment. The prayer therefore seems to be on everybody’s lips to spare us further legislative meddling with busi ness affairs, inasmuch as the adminis tration has in the short time of its ex istence accomplished more changes and radical, too, than many an administra tion has before during its entire term. On getting rest seems therefore to depend the revival of a more buoyant feeling necessary for pushing trade ahead. The hopeful spirit of the mar ket, however, is by no means slumber ing altogether. Our domestic shade grown leaf seems to be enjoying a pop ularity the like of which it has never before experienced. And the Sumatra importers seem to have recovered their pluck, too, in participating to a larger degree in the inscriptions. For more near the old quantities was taken by American buyers at this week’s in scription. Evidently both the avail ability of the parcels offered and the prices graded for them respond more favorably to the American purchaser’s inclination for investment. —Journal. Pennsylvania. Lancaster, Pa., April 8, 1914. More local packers were in the field buying during the past week than have been out any time this season, yet withal it is thought that less than half the crop has been sold, and at the rate at which the tobacco is moving it will be a long time —months before the growers dispose of their holdings. Had they earlier in the season evinced the same reasonableness as they exhibit now, the crop long ago would have been in the packers’ hands. The packers are buying strictly on merit, and they are certainly obliged to keep their weather eye open on this crop. A great deal of it, thousands of acres, was affected by the numerous hailfalls of last summer, some of it just touched and much of it very badly cut, to say nothing of that which was ruined and plowed under. A great deal of really excellent tobacco was more or less damaged by hail, and it is up to the packer to gauge pretty closely the quality of this hail-affected goods, be cause some of the best of the year’s crop is found among it. Only a comparatively few of the growers have put money into the stock of the tobacco pool, and only about 80,000 pounds is claimed by the associa tion to be in its warehouse in Lancas ter, but the bulk of the growers coun tenance it with the hope that it will boost prices. For awhile it stiffened the growers into asking much more than their crops were worth, but since the local packers have contented them selves with only buying where th? fig ures were right, prices have dropped away down. It is predicted that less tobacco will be raised in Lancaster county this sea son than for many years. One big grower said that it was his belief that (Continued on Page 8.) Systematic Saving. Every man or woman, whether earning a small weekly wage, or enjoy ing a large income, should lay aside some portion regularly for fu ture emergency and use. It is a duty you owe to yourself or to those de pendent on you. Our bank makes a special feature of Savings Ac count, and welcomes small and large deposits. Open an Account Today We pay 3 per cent interest on deposits. First National BANK Edgerton, - Wisconsin Capital $50,000.00 Surplus 9,500.00 Geo. W. Doty - Preeident E. G. Bussey Vice President L. A. Anderson - Cashier J. F. Hruska, Asst. Cashier H. T. SWEENEY, PACKER OF 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. HOLTAN Dealer in and Packer of Leaf Tobacco Whitehall,Wis. NUMBER 21