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VOLUME 45 Henry Johnson “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 >. G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN HANSEN BROS. Dealers in Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - Wis. Mabbett Leaf Tobacco Cos. Dealer in Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Edgerton, Wisconsin. W. T. Pomeroy & Cos. * Dealers in and Packers of Leaf Tobacco Edgerton - - Wisconsin C. E. SWEENEY. ' DEALER IN Leaf Tobaccc, eiMiEKTOf. • WiSCOINSII' EDGERTON Farmers Warehouse Cos. DEALERS IN Leaf Tobacco, And Farm Supplies Edgerton, - * Wisconsin. C. J. JONES & SON Packers of and Dealers In Leaf Tobacco 107-109 North Franklin Street Janesville, - Wisconsin. SANFORD SOVERHILL DEALER IN AND PACKER OF Leaf Tobacco Janesville, Wisconsin E- ROSENWALD & BRO. SUCCESSOR TO H. Boaenwald & Bro. and I. Bijur & Son PACKERS OF Leaf Tobacco, 145 Water Street, New York City. 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. ffecoPN: ANDREW JENSON & SON Packers of Tobacco i Public Storage—3 cents per case per month. Edgerton, - - - Wisconsin Representing THE GRIFFIN TOBACCO CO. Growers, Packers, Importers and Exporters of LEAF TOBACCO Hartford and New York THE EARLE TOBACCO CO. Packer of and Dealer in LEAF TOBACCO. PUBLIC STORAGE EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN. GREENS’ TOBACCO CO., Dealers In Leaf Tobacco, STORAGE CAPACITY, - - 15,000 OASES Janesville, - - Wisconsin. Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection ESTABLISHED IN 1864. F. O. LINDE. HAMILTON & CO. INC. Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers Warehousemen Office. 182 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches in all of the principal tobacco dlerr '-* A. H. CLARKE, Special Agent Bdgerton, Wie. Badger "Fhone No. 71 Let Uncle Sam Help You Do your banking these busy days. We ap preciate that help is scarce, that you are very busy, and that every day 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 in every way possible. Tobacco Exchange Bank W. S. Heddles 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, but that would have little weight as compared to a personal trial. That convinces. Edgerton Cigar~Co., Mani^JEn,Wo,, B in N. L. CARLE & CO. fFackers of and Dealers in Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco, Janesville, - -. Wisconsin. EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, JANUARY 31, 1919. ♦ * ♦> NOTE BOOK SKETCHES Another panacea for the present un satisfactory condition of the tobacco market is proposed by Hon. J. C. Han son. assemblyman from Dane county, in the introduction of a joint resolution calling upon the Federal Trade commis sion to investigate the Tobacco Trust which is broadly charged with attempt ing to depress prices. Being president of the Dane County Tobacco Growers* association, we take it Mr. Hanson ought to be in position to bring specific charges, telling why and how the trust is doing an injustice to our tobacco growers, though his resolution failed to do so. The so-called Tobacco Trust has been so frequently investigated, hauled into court, dismembered and told how to conduct its business that still another “once over’* by the trade commission might not be out of order, or accomplish much good either in the present emergency, for if the commis sion were set at work on the job now a year or two might elapse before their report would be compiled and relief under their findings obtained. In the meantime our farmers would become very tired waiting for something ille gal to be uncovered. Would it not be a move of wisdom to look about and see if some other reason might be found for the unfortunate market con dition we find ourselves in? A New York trade paper in recent issue claims the recent organizations of growers es tablishing minimum prices “is nothing more or less than a confession on the part of farmers that the commodity offered cannot be trusted to the natural law of supply and demand but must be artificially bolstered by some arbitrary agreement. The attempt has been made repeatedly in the past with the same discouraging results.’ * A short cut to end the trouble would be to ap peal to the government direct to take over the present crop at war inflated prices, same as it is doing with the farmers* wheat. *** § Thti a year ago when one branch of the Trust which is credited with taking over 60 per cent of the field frosted and shed frozen 1917 crop at the highest prices ever paid in the state that it was treating the grow ers unfairly. Since the component parts of the old Trust opened up a mar ket for low grade Wisconsin leaf the state has profited immensely and grow ers have been able to dispose of such leaf at more than double the ordinary price. Just why they should be singled out now for distrust and odium from the larger manufacturing concerns who are their main competitors is difficult to understand. The Trust is no more to blame for failure to take over our tobacco at inflated prices than other concerns who help move the crop. Above all things, let us try and be fair. A singular coincidence possibly, but the minimum price of 30 cents which the farmer meetings have fixed for the balance of the 1918 tobacco crop is ex actly the price the U. S. Agricultural Bureau of Crop Statistics says was paid up to December Ist in the early buying of the crop. So if an average of 30 cents is to be obtained for the balance of the crop, it is plain that much of it must bring from 35 to 40 cents or around the figures paid in the fall. In this connection it might be .mentioned that the government estimates that the 1917 Wisconsin crop brought the grow ers an averaga of 17| cents a pound and the 1916 crop 12£ cents. It might be well to keep these figures in mind while discussing tobacco prices, for the Bu reau of Statistics vouches for them after exhaustive investigation. There has been a good deal of loose talk indulged in at several of the to bacco growers’ meetings regarding the cost of producing the 1918 crop. One farmer said he had studied the ele ments of cost and found it reached $286.65 an acre or about 22 cents per pound; another thought a round figure of $250 Jan acre about right, which a Rutland grower said was too high and that S2OO was nearer the cost or about 17 cents a pound. What is needed to throw a proper light on this question is an itemized statement of actual eo3t, including fertilizer, interest on invest ment of land and sheds—something tan gible that people could compare and criticize if need be. Pure estimates like the above, which vary over an acre, do not go far towards enlighten ing the public on this question. Lost —A bunch of- keys. Finder plerse return to C. H. Hanson. Wisconsin Tobacco Market Edgerton, Wis.. Jan. 31, 1919. The buying movement, which has been quietly conducted of late, contin ues in a moderate manner whenever growers are willing to accept prices considerably shaded from those fixed at the recent farmers' meetings. The following sample sales show about the maximum prices paid in this vicinity: Otto Naset. 6a at 25c straight. Samuel Clark, 8a at 24e straight. Ezra Bussey, 8a at 24fc straight. Geo. Dickinson, 11a at 24£c straight. H. C. Marsden, 9a at 24|c straight. Julius Hageberg, 12a at 25&15c. As the farmers become more recon ciled to the going figures the movement is likely to attract the larger opera tors. Word comes that buying in Pennsylvania has started at around 15 cents. Receiving of the early pur chases is going on at delivery points, but the information reaches us that in the Vernon county.districts some d r ep slashing is being done and much of the 40c tobacco is being taken for various reasons at about an average of 25 cents and a deal of dissatisfaction pre vails. This confirms the belief that only an option was taken on the to bacco when the pretended sale was made last August—a practive that can not be too highly condemned. The American Sumatra Cos. open their warehouse in this market for handling the new crop next Tuesday. The shipments out of storage reach 150 cs and 4 cars of bundles from this market to atl points since last report. New York, Jan. 23, 1919. The influence of the export trade, which it was predicted would be such a potent factor in the maintenance of prices of domestic tobaccos, is still con spicuously absent. There have been reports during the past week of offers of substantial prices for low-grade to baccos, supposed to be for export, but whether any considerable 3ales have been made, at the prices named, has not been stated. In fact, from all present iadications, it would appear that the export demand must still be considered an unknown quantity. It can hardly be regarded, therefore, as a factor, at this time, in determining the prices which may safely be paid to the farmers for their 1918 crop. Water Street packers report a con tinued fair demand for old tobaccos, though this may be taken as indicative of nothing more significant than that some manufacturers have found it nec essary to replenish their leaf stocks. In general, however, nothing has de veloped to alter the contention that the majority of the manufacturers are well supplied with raw material, sufficient for a considerable period. There is still every reason to believe, however, that all available stocks of old tobacco will be easily disposed of, at present prices, before the new crop will be fit for use.—Leaf. Pennsylvania. Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 21, 1919. If anyone can be found who can fur nish a fair, unbiased report of the exact condition and quality of Lancaster county’s tobacco crop, he should be awarded a tnedal. The growers are stripping and get ting their holdings in shape for inspec tion. Reports of sales come in to Lan caster one day and are denied the next. Some few crops, very small ones, have been bought for the purpose of testing out the tobacco, but that is about the extent of the selling. Local packers, no less than the grow ers, are speculating o/er the failure of big outside concerns to take up part of the crop. In past years the price was never considered if the tobacco was wanted, and there is no reason to sup pose the price question would hold them off now if they wanted the crop. Whatever the government reports may be as to the quantity of tobacco in the county at large, it is a fact that Lancaster city and county warehouses, of the big cigar firms, are fairly bulg ing with the stocks of Lancaster county tobacco which they hold. While deal ers and growers speculate why the big firms don’t buy, the latter just sit still and say nothing. While many growers have comedown off their high horse, it must not be sup posed that they are prepared to sell low. On the contrary, they still look for, and hold out for, better prices than such local men as want tobacco are prepared to give. Just 'how many want to buy, nobody knows, though at at low prices, many dealers would man age to buy some. But the local banks, with all their large resources, have been pretty well tied up through the purchase of government bonds, and it is very doubtful if much money could be secured by packers, and certainly not with tobacco as security. Ohio. Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1919. Buying of the new crop has not start ed, and farmers are wondering when the market will open. The packers prefer to play a waning prob ably because of the fact that tbe*e is a strong possibility of considerable dam age in the crop after it goes through the water sweat. Cheap prices to the farmers are not in sight, however. A lot of noise is being stirred up by the local country papers, and farmers are taking quite a hand in the arguments. With the Kentucky market just a few miles south of us, showing better prices than a year ago, it is going to be hard work to make our farmers see lower prices for our tobacco. It will have to (i Concluded on Page 8 ) 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 5 cent brand. Edgerton - Wisconsin H. T. SWEENEY, PACKER OF Leaf Tobacco Tobacco Bought and Sold on Commission. Edgerton, - - Wisconsin McINTOSH BROS. Packers of Choice Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Always in the market foi* old goods. Edgerton, - Wisconsin W. DICKINSON DEALER IN Leaf Tobacco Edgerton, Wisconsin The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Cos, Dealers in and Packers ol Leaf Tobacco SPARTA, WISCONSIN. Paul N. Grubb L. H. Towne GRUBB & TOWNE Attorneys-at-Law TELEPHONE NO. 286 First National Bank Building Edgerton, - - Wisconsin GEO. W. BLANCHARD Attorney - at-Law Mclntosh-Thompson Block Edgerton, - - Wisconsin C. E. SWEENEY. Dealer in Real Estate. Edgerton, Wisconsin, WISCONSIN and WESTERN LANDS for sale or exchange. City Steam Laundry H. M. Raymond, Prop. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Telephone No. 37 Edgerton, - Wisconsin NUMBER II