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VOLUME 43 Henry Johnson “THE SERVICE AGENCY” is prepared to write IINSURAiNcil 80 of every Kind. Phone 18. Edgerton, Wis. This Office will Give You the Best There is in Insurance Service Mabbett Leaf Tobacco Cos. Dealer in Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Edgerton, Wisconsin. c. J. JONES & SON Packers of and Dealers in Leaf Tobacco 107-109 North Franklin Street Janesville, - Wisconsin. W. T. Pomeroy & Cos. Dealers in and Packers of Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - - Wisconsin 3. G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN HANSEN BROS. Dealers in Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - Wis. C. E. SWEENEY. DEALLR IN Leaf Tobacco, EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN Q. C. LEE-. Dealer lr and PacKer of Leaf Tobacco, STOUGHTON, - WISCONSIN. H. Neuberger Company, Inc. Packer of and Dealer in Leaf Tobacco 130 Water St., New York, N. Y. E* ROSENWALD & BRO. SUCCESSOR TO B. Roseowald & Bro. and I. Bijur & Son PACKERS OF Leaf Tobacco, 145 Water Street. New York City. EDGERTON Farmers Warehouse Cos. DEALERS IN Leaf Tobacco, And Farm Supplies Edgerton, - - Wisconsin. HASKINS & SCHWARTZ Packers of Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, Wisconsin Holton Leaf Tobacco Cos. PACKERS OF WISCONSIN Leaf Tobacco OFFICES AT,; Stoughton and Whitehall, Wis. EUGENE SORENSON Packer of Northern Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Whitehall, Wis. s Tobacco Thawk, EDGERTON, WISCONSIN. Capital Stock - $50,000.00 • Surplus - - $30,000.00 Undivided Profits - - $20,000.00 3 Per Cent, paid on Savings Deposits and Certificates Checks on All Foreign Countries Sold. Safety Boxes For Rent at SI.OO. . ' <r '' Officers and Directors: ANDREW JENSON W. S. HEDDLES Pres, and Cashier Vice-President Wm. BUSSEY, Asst. Cashier D. L. BABCOCK, W. A. SHELLEY, C. Gh BIEDERMAN ALEX WHITE. Gentlemen of Good Taste will tell you that they receive - ? n more pleasure smoking An Imperial 10 cent cigar I IN x N;_'• - than in any other cigar on the I market. If you’ve never tried 0 this “Imperial” cigar, ask your — 'j*' -y \ dealer for one today. For a mighty good 5c Cigar ask for MAX NO. lO w-'* i ■ Manufacturers, Ldgerton Cigar LO., Edgerton, Wisconsin THE EARLE TOBACCO CO. Packer of and Dealer in LEAF TOBACCO. PUBLIC STORAGE EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN. ANDREW JENSON & SON PACKERS OF AND DEALERS IN LEAF TOBACCO Public Storage—3 cents per case per month EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection ESTABLISHED IN 1864. F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON & CO. INC. Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers ss Warehousemen Office, 182 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches in all of the principal tobacco district A. H. OLARKE, Special Agent Edgerton, Wis. Badger’Phone No. 71 COLSON E HAMILTON FRANK P. WISEBURN, LOUIS BUHLE Formerly with F. C. Linde. Hamilton & Cos. C. O' HAMILTON & CO. INC. Tobacco Inpsectors, Vareboasemen, 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. GREENS’ TOBACCO CO., Dealers in Leaf Tobacco, STORAGE CAPACITY, - - - 15,000 OASES Janesville, - - Wisconsin. N. L. CARLE & CO. "v Packers of and Dealers in\ Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, - - Wisconsin. EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, JULY 13, 1917 NOTE BOOK SKETCHES The joint crop report of the U. S. department of agriculture with state bpard, issued from Madison Monday, estimates the tobacco acreage of Wis consin has been increased 10 per cent this season, or from 43,900 to 48,200 acres. Although there is but slight reason for basing an estimated yield at this date, it is placed at 53 million pounds. The present condition of the ctop is given as 85, which to our notion should be well up toward the 100 per cent mark. But what is the use to predict any estimates at this time when the crop is yet to be made. * * * Black rot i3 being found in the 1916 Pennsylvania packings and is causing considerable comment for it is a risk every dealer assumes when he buys the tobacco, not only there but in other cigar leaf states. Why one packer should have tobacco with very little black rot in it and another should have a packing with such a large percentage as to be heartrending is one of the things nobody can explain, says a well known packer. And another unex plainable thing is the different answers as to the percentage of black rot. One well known buyer reported to the writer a packing in which 96 out of every 100 cases were more or less af fected. This informant declared that the 1916 tobacco, as a crop, is badly af fected with black rot. Other packers say there is no more than usual. The cause assigned for the black rot among the 1916 tobacco of Lancaster county is claimed to be due to taking it from the poles before being thoroughly cured. Among the timely suggestions of the Ohio Dealers’ association made to the growers is this: Tobacco, more than other crops, requires attention, and along this line would say, cultivate early and go after the weeds. Watch the cut worms and as the plant devel ops keep off the regular tobacco worm. Nothing hurts a crop so much as torn ttnd worm-eaten tobacco. Two of the most important things in growing a crop of tobacco are to top at the prop er time and to keep off the suckers. We recommend topping as soon as the bud appears, thereby giving you a uni form and fully developed leaf. Now as to suckers, if you allow them to grow nitely—they will exact from the l talk the sap or life blood which to the leaf, and leave it more or less dead and woody when cured. Sucker at least twice. Keep all the vitality in the main leaves of the stalk and you will have much heavier as well as better quality tobacco. Government tests prove at least 25 per cent more weight per acre on properly suckered tobacco. * * * A recent statement from Canada is to the effect that tobacco is taking the place of liquor as the great inland rev enue producer. For the month of April the revenue derived from tobacco and cigars amounted to about $1,000,000. On spirits it was about $750,000. The total for the month was a trifle more than $2,000,000, a sum slightly less than that collected for the same period last year. The Wall Street Journal makes the statement that wherever prohibi tion has become operative there has been a marked increase in the demand for tobacco. In the United States liquor pays about two dollars for every one paid by tobacco. If the same pro portion existed in Canada before the war then the tobacco industry has cer tainly made enormous strides. Ac cording to manufacturers whose brands are sold in western prohibition states, the “dry” laws have done practically no harm to the cigar and tobacco indus try, but on the contrary have increased sales in certain sections. That there is a shortage in the world’s supply of leaf tobacco of prac tically every growth, is an undisputed fact; but what effect the war and the various legislations growing out of it are going to have on consumption, de velopments and circumstances only can determine. • Great Britain has increas ed its already high import duty on leaf 50 per cent, making the tax on every pound of raw tobacco cost $1.76, to which has to be added the high cost of the leaf, freight from 500 to 700 per cent higher than normal, excessive war risk and marine insurance and other expenses incident to the war. On May 31st all licenses to import leaf into Great Britain expired, and it is very uncertain when exports to that country will be allowed to resume. The high freights, sundry restrictions and lack of bottoms greatly demoralize our bus iness to other countries. It is proposed to increase the internal revenue tax in our own country on all manufactured tobacco 100 per cent, and it is a fore gone conclusion that the bill will be en acted into law with possibly some min or changes. What effect these difficul ties will have upon prices and consump tion, no prudent man will venture to predict. But notwithstanding these impediments, so great is the world’s shortage and so rapidly has the con sumption increased, that it is more than probable that it will take several bumper crops to depress prices ma terially. WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET. Edgerton, Wis., July 13, 1917. The new tobacco crop has had the benefit of a week of exceptional grow ing weather that is rapidly putting it to the front. No crop in recent years has made so fine a getaway or more promising at this date. The early set fields have commenced to take on a spread that presages a harvest not but a few weeks away. There is a uni formness about the fields where culti vation has been properly attended to especially noticeable. Buyers have commenced to send their men into the growing districts to watch the progress of the crop and make note of the most promising fields. Their reports are that the crop seldom, if ever, looked better at this date, and if the present fast growing conditions continue an ~early harvest is predicted. Another almost forgotten crop of old leaf has been marketed this week, be ing lies of 1906 leaf grown by Samuel Larson, sold to Weddles Bros, of Chi cago. How much the grower has made by holding his tobacco ten years is a problem. The closing of the Spitzner ware house Wednesday leaves but a single firm yet to complete the ’l6 packing in this market. The shipments out of storage reach 150 cases to all points since last report. New York. New York, July 7, 1917. The leaf market, after its many sen sational experiences during the past few months, has settled down again to its routine life tempered by recreations of the summer vacation. Most of the leaf men have hied themselves to the seashore or mountains where, in stren uous exercises of golfing and fishing and other sports they seek to regain renewed vigor for a prospective brisk fall campaign. The leaf trade certain ly deserves its recreative vacation after the exceedingly busy months they have passed through which luckily left them sufficient margin for enjoying their leisure in ease and comfort.—Journal. New York, July 3, 1917. The new crop, the planting of which has just been finished, is generally re ported as starting to grow well, though it was three weeks late being planted. At this stage of the game speculation as to what the new crop is liable to amount to is useless. Nothing has oc curred thus far, however, that would make a good and fairly abundant crop an impossibility. Very little activity is reported in old tobaccos, chiefly because of the scarcity and high price. —Leaf. Pennsylvania. Lancaster, Pa., July 2, 1917. The new crop of our county has had a splendid start. Plenty of moisture, warm, sunny days and warm nights — just what tobacco needs. Cut worms are bad but no worse than usual, and so far there has been little occasion for replanting. It is generally conceded that the acreage cannot be under 20,000 acres, though opinions vary greatly a to the number above that figure. But those who contend for an estimate of 25,000 acres are conceded to have a strong argument in their favor because of the known figures of the heavy pur chases of a number of the county's big cigar firms. With one concern taking 20,000 cases and a dozen big firms buy ing heavily, it is easy to understand why the acreage must be large, for three cases to the acre must be consid ered in making all estimates. It would seem that the time is here for the Lan caster County Tobacco Growers’ Asso ciation or the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade to take the steps neces sary for ascertaining just what the acreage is. It would be easy to do. The cigar trade here continues good. Retailers have a steady trade, and the factories, as a rule, have all the orders on hand that they care to have. In deed, some of the factories are behind on orders, though running to the limit. And the manufacturers say they are running very close to the margin of profits without the war tax that is coming. All recognize the fact that the prices must soon go up. In York county the cheaper grades have already gone up 50 cents a thousand. New England. Springfield, Mass., July 7, 1917. The transplanting of the New Eng land tobacco crop has practically been completed. While thousands of acres of the crop have been set out at an unusually late date, they are in the ground from a week to ten days earlier than seemed likely a few weeks ago. Plants which were set out three or four weeks ago are making genuine progress and the crop as a whole is in a better condition than the 1916 crop was at a corresponding date. Heavy rains fell throughout the Connecticut Valley on Friday but the sun reappear ed Saturday. Heat and humidity are being supplied by nature in ideal pro portions and it is well within the bounds of possibility that the 1917 New Eng land crop will prove a yield long to be remembered both for quality and for quantity. May, 1917, proved to be a more pros perous month for the tobacco manufac turing business in the United States than had been anticipated. In general the production for-the month was very satisfactory, exceeding that of the pre ceding month of April and gaining over the business of May, 1916. Ways To Save From every month’s salary you receive, must be paid your living expenses, clothing, food, rent and incidentals. “And incidentals” usuafiy includes any number of needless spending items—often the total is as much'as the other three • items of necessity. Why not bank $5.00 a week and charge it to “incidentals”? You will not miss it in your ex pense account, yet it will be where you can have it for use in case of necessity. Start a savings account to day. SI.OO is sufficient for the first deposit. first National Bank EDGERTON, WIS. Mr. Auto Owner— Don’t wait until you have a loss before securing our Automobile Insur ance. Call or phone for rates. Anderson & Hruska New Pringle Bldg. Phone 370 “Let us look after your policies.” E. M. HUBBELL Leaf Tobacco and Cigars Don DIGO 10c CIGARS. Ta-Ho-Mo 5 cent brand. Edgerton - Wisconsin H. T. SWEENEY, PACKER OF Leaf Tobacco Tobacco Bought and Sold on Commission. Edgerton, - - Wisconsin Mclntosh bros. Packers of Choice Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Always in the market for old goods. Edgerton, - Wisconsin The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Co*J Dealers In and Packers of Leaf Tobacco SPARTA, WISCONSIN. NUMBER 34