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VOLUME 45 Henry Johnson j ‘THE SERVICE AGENCY” is prepared to write INSURANCE 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 G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN HANSEN BROS, Dealers in Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - • Wis. C. E. SWEENEY. DEAiXR IN Leaf Tohaccc SANFORD SOVERHILL DEALER IN AND PACKER OF Leaf Tobacco Janesville, Wisconsin E- ROSENWALD & BRO. X BUCCKBBOR TO B. Roaenwald <fe Bro. and I. Bijur & Son packers or Leaf Tobacco, 146 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. 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. ANDREW JENSON & SON Packers of Tobacco Public Storage—3 cents per case per month. Edgerton, - - - Wisconsin * ' r \ Repr esentin g THE GRIFFIN TOBACCO CO. Growlers, Packers, Importers and Exporters of LEAF TOBACCO Hartford and New York Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco inspection ESTABLISHED IN 1864. F. C. LINDE. HAMILTON & CO. INC. Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers s Warehousemen Office, 183 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches In all of the principal tobacco district ▲. H. OLARKE, Special Agent Bdgerton, WU. Badger ’Phene No. 71 Let Uncle Sam Help You Do your banking these busy days. We ap- that help is scarce, that you are very Sis Soci ety^ r counts, so stop thinking it will be necessary for you to come to town to do your banking business. Just put your banking business in the mail with necessary instructions, and you will receive the same careful attention that it would had you called personally. We are always glad to accommodate you m every way possible. Tobacco Exchange Bank 1 W. S. Heddle3 Wm. Bussey * L. J. Dickinson A. H. Jenson President Vice Pres. Vice Pres. Cashier A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU Nothing that we could say would so thoroughly convince you of the satisfaction of smoking an IMPERIAL CIGAR as a personal trial. We could tell you of thousands of satisfied Imperial smokers, bur mat would have little weight as compared to a personal trial. That convinces. Edgerton Cigar Cos., Ma "“ldgerteL Wisconsin GREENS’ TOBACCO CO., Dealers in Leaf Tobacco, STORAGE CAPACITY, ... 16,000 OASES Janesville, - - Wisconsin. N. L. CARLE & CO. |Paokers of and Dealers In Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, - - Wisconsin. EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, NOVEMBER 29, 1918. NOTE BOOK SKETCHES We surrender space for a couple of growers to air their views in this col umn. One makes timely suggestions regarding the handling of the crop, while the other throws a few bricks at the editor and accuses him of bearing down the price of tobacco, a charge we are confident those who have followed these columns carefully will not coin cide with. * * WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, BOYS? The storm tossed mariner embraces the first opportunity to take a shot at the sun to determine his location. So, also, should we growers of tobacco weigh well each determining factor in fixing our price for our goods. The goods? Well, yes, we have got them. The finest ever. Oodles of them, but so also has seemingly every state in the Union. And foreign countries? Ham pered as they have been by lack of transportation facilities to put their goods upon the market, he, indeed, must be in possession of exclusive in formation to fortell how much they have accumulated to dump upon the trade at the first opportunity. It is possible that the fitful and at times even frenzied rush for bargains of last June and again in August were based on definite and exact knowledge of the wants of the manufacturers, and then again, perhaps, it was only a string of suckers chasing a speculative cuss who likely even now is laid up in a hospital for repairs to his Ego, who did not know and does not yet know where he is going to head in at. The close of the war may make prices advance or vice versa. Who knows? The tightness of the money market and the indisposi tion of the banks to finance tobacco deals of any kind will surely retard business for a while. We have got the goods-you bet—the best ever-but it takes money to play marbles. And to us growers who did not get on the loaded wagon last summer it stands us in. hand to put our crops up in a man ner free from all damage, so that it will be in good condition when the roses bloom again. And should we even have to hold it through the sweat, have we not our Equity warehouse to sort, pack and store it until such time as the man ufacturers will need them? We would suggest that while stripping, the sort able tobacco be carefully separated from the so-called stemming tobacco. In fact, the two-bundle box game seems to be the most feasible one to play—all tobacco of good quality, both binders and fillers, in one box, and mongrel (off-colored and generally non descript stuff) put in the other box, to be sold at the present ruling high price for stemming, thereby leaving the bet ter stuff by itself to be sold to manu facturers. At the present time labor conditions in the packing centers are such that the dealers will likely be more particular in buying to give the preference to those crops which have been well cleaned in stripping. The casing season has been a good one, not too wet, and the colors are showing up fine and it looks like good, safe, keep ing tobacco, and it will 9urely bring the price when conditions are right again. Yours, Grower. * * & Madison, Wis. Editor Reporter:—Haying been a sub scriber to your paper for a good many years and a tobacco grower, I feel as if I must let you know my feelings in regard to your stand as to the price of 1918 tobacco. How can anyone grow tobacco under the conditions that have prevailed this season and remain a to bacco grower unless we have great in ducement to remain in the business? In fact lots wont raise tobacco in the future right around here. One man had two sheds to hold 16 acres and has pulled both down and used the lumber for a cow barn. He says “no more to bacco.” I can count from my house four sheds empty; the owners say, “no tobacco.” It is a dog’s life to raise it and then it interferes with all the other work, to say nothing of the fertilizer it takes and "hand work. Also it is not like any other thing a farmer has to sell—stock, grain, hay, milk, etc.; for these there is a market and a grade, but tobacco, the buyern talk the matter over, then send out men (?) with a limit as to what they shall pay and they buy all crops, good, bad, etc., they can for as much less as a fool farmer will take. Then even you are not sure you will ever get what the contract calls for. You must remember this year we had to pay 100 per cent more for steam ing, also for coal, pulling plants, hoe ing, etc., and for harvesting the wages were $7.00 a day for 10 hours’ work, plus board. Lath was SIO.OO a thou sand, jack pine poie9 40 cents apiece. These prices are 140 per cent higher than formerly. Now they are talking 35 cents an hour for stripping, with board, so unless we receive a good big figure for our crops the buyers will have killed the goose that laid the gol den egg. Last spring you in your paper advised all to raise tobacco as they were sure of a good price. Now you say the farmers are hogs because they want a good price for their hard labor, etc., etc. Furthermore, there is no reason for us not getting a “melon” instead of the buyers taking it aJL After the crops get into the hands of the trust or buyers prices will go out of sight with every Country the sun shines on yelling for tobacco. By the way, why don’t you state in your paper sales some of the prices buyers get? You never do. In conclusion, be fair; let the buyers do the running down of the market themselves. Yours truly, J. C. Latham. P. S.—ln your paper two weeks ago you said everything else is going down, why not tobacco? This is not so. Hay, milk, hogs, etc., even coal is up sl.lO a ton. WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKE.T Edgerton. Wis.. Nov. 29, 1918. The first hard freeze of the season to penetrate the curing sheds has come during the week, but the hanging to bacco was so well pa9t any danger of fat stems th; t no injury could possibly occur. Stripping of the crop where growers took down a portion or all of their tobacco is proceeding and until the last few days the weather has been so mild that the work could be con ducted in the sheds. The resumption of buying of the bal ance of the crop so patiently waited for by the growers has not yet come in any organized movement. The only occasional sale coming to notice are at figures under the earlier purchases. The first delivery of the new tobacco in this market came Tuesday, when the P. Lorillard Cos. received 35 acres, which made in in almost perfect condi tion. The crops weighed in about 1600 pounds to the acre and while the prices paid were not among the top ones, growers obtained something over $450 per acre, which is an indication that the farmers are to receive a handsome revenue from tobacco this year. The shipments out of storage reach 100 cases and 4 cars of bundles from this market since last report. Viroqua, Wis., Nov. 20, 1918. The third period of case weather has been with U3 for a half-week and it put hanging tobacco in prime condition to remove from the poles. Nearly every grower has taken down all or a portion of their holdings, and every available person in town and country is now en gaged in stripping and bundling the large and most excellent year’s growth of the weed. We understand that some growers who contracted their crops early in the season have asked to make deliveries the current week, and will be permitted to do so. So far as we can learn there has been no attempt to start buying again in this section.—Censor. New York. New York, Nov. 23, 1918. The cigar leaf market continues about as reported last week. There is no ac tivity in old tobaccos, and no attempt is being made to buy the new. In fact, every one is playing a waiting game. As has been explained before, those who have stocks of leaf tobacco on hand are waiting to see what the situa tion is going to be. There is every reason to hope that the cigar manufac turing industry are eve of bet ter conditions, due to better labor con ditions, and the relaxation of the re strictions in the matter of packing, etc., under which they had expected that they would have to conduct their business. It is undeniable that the re. strictions proposed would have serious ly upset the cigar manufacturing in dustry, and a sigh of relief went up when the United States Tobacco Jour nal, in a special bulletin service, flashed the glad tidings from one end of the country to the other that the restric tions had been lifted. Furthermore, it must not be forgotten that the cigar manufacturers are, in the main, plenti fully svpplied with leaf tobacco. Re gardless of whether the leaf market resumes activity or not, their is little likelihood of their having to pay higher prices for the 1918 crop than tney paid for what they have on hand, and for the next six months at least they will be using tobacco that they now own. A concerted effort is being made to see to it that the leaf tobacco industry shall not be hampered by an undue re striction in the facilities for export.— Journal. New York, Nov. 41, 1918. Coutrary to quite generally held ex pectations, the return of peace has not in any great degree altered the atti tude of the majority of Water Street packers toward the domestic market situation. Outside of a few scattering transactions the market remains devoid of any signs of any significant activity. While there are a number of persistent optimists among the packers, who are confident that the eventful opening of the extensive export ousiness which is certain to follow the resumption of shipping and the relief of the labor sit uation in the cigar manufacturing in dustry will create a heavy demand for domestic tobacco which will hold prices at their present levels, these men are undoubtedly in the minority. However, as all Water Street packers agree, one guess is as good as another in these un certain times and, in this particular in stance, it is possible the minority may be right. The conservative attitude which the majority of packers maintain, however, toward domestic leaf is based upon the belief that the curtailment of produc tion of cigars during the war has cre ated a surplus which will keep the man ufacturers supplied with raw material for many months to come. Even should the labor situation be relieved by the speedy return of cigarmakers to their factories, these packers hold that the leaf surplus thus created will be suf ficient for the needs of the immediate future. Lack of shipping facilities and huge stocks of cheap foreign tobacco now in storage awaiting shipment to European markets will, they believe, preclude any great demand for domes tic tobacco for export. Not until there is a radical change in the haughty at titude of the growers and a sharp re vision downward of the prices at which farmers are holding the record crop of 1918, they say, will there be any possi bility of a break in the apathy which now rules the domestic market. —Leaf. (Continued on Page 8 ) 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 Bank 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 370 E. M. HUBBELL Leaf Tobacco and Cigars Don DIGO 10c CIGARS.. Ta-Ho-Mo S 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* Dealers in and Packers of Leaf Tobacco SPARTA, WISCONSIN. , NUMBER 2