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VOLUME 44
Henry Johnson
“THE SERVICE AGENCY”
is prepared to write
INSURANCE
of every Kind.
Phone 18. Edgertr-j^Wj
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
O. G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN
HANSEN BROS.
Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton • • Wis.
C. Er. SWEENEY,
DEALER IN
Leaf Tohaccc,
EDGERTON, WiSCOINSII'
oT cTTeeT
Dealer if* 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.
BIJCCESBOR TO
B. Rosenweld & Bro. and I. Bijur <fe Son
packers or
Leaf Tobacco,
145 Water Street,
New York City.
EDGERTON
Farmers Warehouse Cos.
DEALERS IN
Leaf Tobacco,
And Farm Supplies
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin.
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HASKINS & SCHWARTZ
Packers of Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, Wisconsin
Holton Leaf Tonacco Cos.
PACKERS OF WISCONSIN
Leaf Tobacco
OFFICES AT
Stoughton and Whitehall, Wis.
JOHN SOULMAN
Packer and Dealer of
Leaf Tobacco
Janesville and Orfordville, Wis.
THE EARLE TOBACCO CO.
Packer of and Dealer in
LEAF TOBACCO.
PUBLIC STORAGE
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN.
Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco inspection
ESTABLISHED IN 1864.
F. C. LINDE, HAMILTON & CO. INC.
Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers 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
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter
Has on Hand the Latest Forms of
Contracts For Buying Tobacco
Packing Books, Weigh Books, Time Cards.
And a Full Line of Sampling Supplies
GREENS’ TOBACCO CO.,
Dealers in Leaf Tobacco,
STORAGE CAPACITY, - - - 15,000 CASES
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
Condensed Report
To the Commissioner of Banking|Showing the Condition of the
Tobacco Exchange Bank
at the close of business on the 10th day of May, 1918.
RESOURCES
Dciefcy id Discounts - - $747,239 76
Real Estate ------- 29,583 57
Bonds ------- 2,900 00
Furniture and Fixtures - .... 3,237 56
Overdrafts - - - 1,174 54
Cash on hand and Due from banks - - 163,252 00
Total - - - $946,212 89
K-iAB.IL.ITIES
Capital Stock paid in - - - - $50,000 00
Surplus - - - - 46,837 72
Deposits subject to check - - $371,985 20
Certificates of deposit - - - 323,385 61
Savings deposits - - - - 154,004 36 849,375 17
Total - $946,212 89
DEPOSITS
May 10th, 1916 - . - - - - $604,177 29
May 10th, 1917 771,222 87
May 10th, 1918 849,375 17
W. S. Heddles Wm. Bussey L. J. Dickinson A. H. Jenson
President Vice Pres/ Vice Pres. Cashier
Add Them all Together
Workmanship, Aroma, Character, Mildnes and Burn
and you will find why an
\
Imperial 10c Cigar
adds up to PERFECTION. Imperial Cigars give the
smokers their money's worth and assure satisfaction
to all who want to smoke a good cigar.
Edgerton Cigar Cos., Edgerton, Wisconsin
ANDREW JENSON & SON
PACKERS OF AND DEALERS IN
LEAF TOBACCO
Public Storage—3 cents per case per month
EDGERTON, - - WISCONSIN
SANFORD SOVERHILL
DEALER IN AND PACKER OF
LEAF TOBACCO
Janesville, - Wisconsin.
N. L. CARLE & CO.
[Packers of and Dealers in;
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, JUNE 21, 1918
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES
The tobacco growers of Wisconsin
have had an opportunity to observe this
season just how much weather condi
tions figure in getting an early start in
putting the new crop in the fields.
Although the laying of the seed beds
was delayed somewhat by a late spring,
since that time weather conditions
could scarcely be improved upon for
bringing the young plants forward and
in such an abundance for an unusually
early planting. Rains came along so
timely that at no time did the beds
need additional moisture, while the ab
sence of cold winds or low tempera
tures gave the plants a chance to come
steadily forward at a much earlier date
too, than is usual in this state. Every
thing so far has conspired to the bene
fit of the grower. Heavy rainfalls the
month just previous to transplanting
the crop has given the soil a surplus of
moisture at a time too, when it was
most needed so there has been little
difficulty experienced in getting a good
stand in the fields and requiring but
little resetting except where the cut
worms were especially active. The
temperature so far during the trans
planting has averaged moderate which
has also proven a great help as often
times dry weather and hot days have
burned out the plants so that frequent
resetting of the fields becomes neces
sary. With fully three-fourths of the
crop now 3afely in the field trouble of
this character is now past. The credit
therefore for the excellent start of the
crop is quite largely due to exceptional
weather conditions up to date.
* *
*
It has been many years since such
glowing crop reports have come into
Water Street from the tobacco grow
ing states. In Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Wisconsin, as well as in the New Eng
land states, the planting of the crop
has started two weeks ahead of the
usual time, and according to reports
the weather and the condition of the
ground are everything that could be
desired. Of course, the experienced
packer does not bank too heavily on
this fact, for tobacco is a plant of ten
der growth, and it requires a lot of
good treatment between the time it is
planted and the time it is harvested.
The information also comes to hand
that the acreage being set in tobacco is
fully as large as last year’s, and in
some instances there is an increase.
♦ *►

With a budget bill of eight billion
dollars before Congress to provide for
our next year’s war expenses, nobody
—even the most indifferent citizen
can expect to escape an additional con
tribution to the collection of our ti
tanic war expenditures. To raise taxes
of eight thousand million is such an un
wonted enterprise as would have been
thought impossible of accomplishment
but a few years ago. But here we
have the impossible task before us.
We have to execute it. Congress
through its financial committees has
already decided on it and the President
has urgently recommended it. While
the details of this gigantic task have
not been made public as yet, it may be
assumed as an inevitable certainty that
every industry, trade and commodity
will have to share proportionately in
the new additional taxes. Can it, there
fore be supposed by even the extrem
est stretch of imagination that our to
bacco industries are likely to be spared
from participating in the unavoidable
demands occasioned by our superlative
financial necessities? And if so, is it
also necessary to forecast in time the
steps to smooth the distribution of the
unavoidable tax increase. To do that,
it is necessary to start at once a coun
try-wide campaign for instructing and
enlightening particularly the retail
trade as to the coming event of ad
justing their merchandise prices to
meet their higher demands. Avery
serious increase in the cost of doing
business will become effetive throughout
the trade under the broad advances in
railroad passenger fares and freight
charges recently authorized by Director
General McAdoo. For cigars alone, in
the Fa” Western territory, this in
crease is estimated to amount to 25
cents per thousand and an increase of
that amount has been put upon cigar3
by Pacific coast distributors. While
there could scarcely be a more cogent
reason for similar price increases upon
all other tobacco products throughout
the United States, to compensate for
the new element, than the carriers’ ad
vance, the new order has other signifi
cance for the trade.— N. Y. Journal.
.V
Well posted men state that the 1918
acreage under shade in the Connecticut
Valley will be in the neighborhood of
7,000 acres. It seems likely, however,
that some of the best known firms are
going to cut down their shade acreage
and grow more open and primed tobac
co. The high price that binders and
primed wrappers brought make that
kind of tobacco very attractive, and it
can be grown with a much smaller
financial investment than the shade to
bacco can.
i WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
Edgerton, Wis., June 21, 1918.
! With the close of the present week
; probably three-quarters of the intended
acreage of the 1918 tobacco crop will
! be transplanted in the fields, close to
; two weeks in advance of the average
planting season in this state. Except
; in a few localities, not favored by rains
| during the week, and the soil too dry,
| this work has proceeded under fine con
j ditions. In the early set fields the
| plants have already taken root and are
I showing up well. The cut worms are
i reported quite troublesome on fields re
cently planted, but the different pre
ventatives now reduce the loses mater
ially from this source. The end of
June ought to see the end of trans
planting of the 1918 crop.
The Spitzner warehouse closed pack
ing operations during the week and
there are but few firms yet to finish
warehouse handling of last season’s
| crop. Stemming operations are now
j being carried on at most of the pack
| ing points in the state, giving employ
| ment during the summer season to sev
eral thousand hands.
The shipments out of storage reach
225 cases to all points from this mar
ket since last report.
Viroqua, Wis., June 12, 1918.
Taking plants from the beds and
transferring them into the tobacco
fields commenced ten days ago in a
small way, but now nearly every grow
er of the weed is at the work. In fact
some have completed setting. As usual,
some have grand plants, while others
are backward. We believe the beds
are more numerous and longer than for
many years, indicating that the acre
age of tobacco will be larger in Vernon
county this year than for many sea
sons. There are very few farms in
this whole region but will cultivate
from one to ten acres of tobacco. The
tendency is not to abnormal acreage on
part of individuals as sometimes in the
past.
New York.
New York, June 17, 1918.
Activity in the leaf market continues
to be in a normal condition. But it
would be a lost week if it were not
stirred up by some sensational occur
rence. And so it was by the news pub
lished in our issue of last week that
17,000 bales of Sumatra and Java were
to be auctioned off without obligation
of duty payment, at the order of gov
ernment officials. By what means this
new excitement will be abated nobody
can just at present foresee. In the
meanwhile, speculations are traveling
fast as to who is or is not to be bene
fited if the auction sale comes up and
how it will affect the domestic wrapper
leaf market. The market was so busy
speculating as to why anybody should
venture now to gamble in the new to
bacco crops, the plants of which were
just put out. But such gambling ven
tures have become rather the rule than
the exception with the leaf packers and
should not cause any moralizing com
ment, as such comments seem to have
never had before any salutary results.
The Porto Rican tobacco market was
likewise affected by the severe loss of
a large cargo of leaf tobacco on its
way to our port torpedoed by an enemy
vessel. As the supply of desirable
Porto Rico tobacco is anyhow not very
ample, the loss is likely to cause some
depression. —Journal.
New York, June 12, 1918.
A rather disquieting feature of the
week’s news is the fact that efforts are
being made, at a time when only about
one-half the crop is in the ground, to
contract for future delivery at prices
that would guarantee another year of
very costly raw material. Be it said
to the credit of the common sense of
the farmers, very few of them seem
willing to tie themselves up, even
though the prices offered them are very
tempting. It is estimated that the
1918 acreage will surpass last j 7 ear’s by
at least five per ceut. A good crop
season could easily give a twenty-five
per cent better yield per acre than last
year’s. It could easily happen that
those who are making those future
contracts will find themselves bound to
accept a great deal more tobacco than
they are counting upon. The manu
facturing industry has reached a point
where it has got to be considered. It
is easier to raise the price of tobacco
than the price of cigars. An abnor
mally large production by the farmers,
which is by no means out of the ques
tion, would leave somebody in a bad
predicament. The leaf packer who
keeps his head during the next few
months is going to save himself a lot
of trouble. —Leaf.
Pennsylvania.
Lancaster, Pa., June 12, 1918.
The inspection being made at present
of the 1917 packing discloses preva
lence of black rot greater than is us
ually found. Several of the largest
packers find that as high as 75 per
cent of the cases have to be cleaned.
The result of the inspection by two
large dealers will be of interest. One
secured twelve sound cases out of a
hundred and the other got eighteen
sound cases out of a like amount of to
bacco examined. Much alarm is being
felt over this situation, and it is caus
ing many packers to look at their to
bacco earlier than they usually would
have done. Much of the blame for the
condition is placed upon the grower,
who in hurrying the tobacco to the
(Concluued on Page 4 )
Ways To
Save
From every month’s salary
you receive, must be paid your
living expenses, clothing, food,
rent and incidentals.
“And incidentals’’ usually
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 Benk
EDGERTON, WIS.
6%
Farm
Mortgages
Buy our First Farm Mortgage
and you will have an invest
ment so fundamentally sound
that war does not affect its
stability. Our mortgages are
absolutely safe and pay you 6
per cent.
We have several on hand.
See us or write.
Anderson & Hruska
New Pringle Bldg. Phone 37C
E* M. HUBBELL
Leaf Tobacco
and Cigars
Don DIGO 10c CIGARS.
Ta-Hto-Mo 5 cent brand.
Edgerton - Wisconsin
H. T. SWEENEY.
PACKER OP
Leaf Tobacco
Tobacco Bought and Sold
on Oommission.
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin
Mclntosh bros.
Packers of Choice Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Aiways in the market for old goods.
Edgerton, - Wisconsin
The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Co*
Dealers in and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
SPARTA, WISCONSIN.
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