The Wisconsin tobacco reporter., March 17, 1922, Image 1

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VOLUME 48
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
W. DICKINSON
DEALER IN
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton, Wisconsin
• Mclntosh bros.
Packers of Choice Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Always in the market for old goods.
Edgerton, Wisconsin
0. G. HANSEN. C. E. HANSEN
HANSEN BROS.
Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton - - Wls.
W. T. Pomeroy & Cos.
Dealers in and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton - Wisconsin
C. E. SWEENEY & SONS
Packers of Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton, Wisconsin
EDGE RTON
Farmers Warehouse Cos.
DEALERS IN
Leaf Tobacco
Licensed under U.S. Warehouse Act
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin.
C. J. JONES & SON
Packers of and Dealers ir
Leaf Tobacco
107-109 North Franklin Street
Janesville, - Wisconsin.
B- ROSENWALD & BRO.
* -SCCCESSOK TO
. Lioaenwftiri Jc Bro. and 1. Bijur k Son.
cackkrs or
Leaf Tobacco,
145 Water Street,
New York City.
HASKINS & SCHWARTZ
Packers of Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco,
PUBLIC STORAGE
Janesville, Wisconsin
Holton Leaf Tobacco Cos.
PACKERS OF WISCONSIN
Leaf Tobacco
OFFICES AT
Stoughton and Whitehall, Wis.
JOHN SOULMAN & SON
Packers and Dealers of
Leaf Tobacco
Janesville, Wisconsin
The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Co*
Dealers in and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
SPARTA, WISCONSIN.
THE EARLE TOBACCO CO.
Packer of and Dealer in
* LEAF TOBACCO.
PUBLIC STORAGE
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN.
Tobacco Exchange Bank
8 So C j e . Wisconsin
Capital and Surplus . . . $100,000.00
OFFICERS and DIRECTORS
W. S. Heddles, President Wm. Bussey, Vice Pres.
L. J. Dickinson, Vice Pres. Adolph. H. Jenson, Cash.
D. L. Babcock C. G. Biederman
W. A. Shelley
We want to serve you in a way which will
meet with your unqualified approval
THE WAR IS OVER
The Imperial
(CAPITAL SIZE)
CIGAR
Is now on the market and sells at
10 cents
Edgerton Cigar Co.,SjSK'wtomi.
THE LINAAS CIGAR COMPANY
Manufactnrers of the
Wanda, All Wisconsin, Country Club and High Dome Cigars
Edgerton, Wisconsin
ANDREW JENSON & SON
Packers of Leaf Tobacco
Public Storage—s cents per case per month.
EDGERTON - - WISCONSIN
GREENS’ TOBACCO CO.,
Dealers in Leaf Tobacco,
STORAGE CAPACITY, - - - 16,000 OASES
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
N. L. CARLE & CO.
jPaokere of and Dealers inj
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection
ESTABLISHED IN 1864.
F. C. LINDE. HAMILTON & CO. Inc.
Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers as Warehousemen
Office, 182 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches In all of the principal tobaccodlstrlct
T. W. Dickinson, Special Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Phone 94 and 173.
MABBETT-HARPER TOBACCO CO.
PACKERS OF
Northern Wisconsin Tobacco
Choice Northern Binders Stemmed and Booked B’s
TOMAH, - WISCONSIN
EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, MARCH 17, 1922.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES
A PROTEST.
Petitions are circulated throughout,
the tobacco growing areas of Wiscon
sin for signatures of growers and pack
er* of Wisconsin leaf in protest against
tne proposed increase in the tariff on
imported wrapper and filler tobaccos.
The matter of the tobacco schedule is
now before the Senate Finance com
mittee at Washington, and certain in
terests in this country who are in the
wrapper growing business are pushing
with all might a tariff on the above
mentioned types of imported leaf in or
der to improve the limited market for
their own wrapper grades.
The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter gave
this matter some attention a year ago
when the temporary tariff was under
discussion, calling attention to the fact
that a high import duty on wrapper
and filler tobaccos would work detri
mental to the Wisconsin grower and
packer.
A duty of from $1.85 to $2.35, with
bright prospects of an increase even
above these figures, is giving an unfair
advantage in the competition, and sad
dling upon the consuming public a bur
den which it can not and should not
bear.
The manufacturer of cigars who is
forced to pay an excessive price for his
wrappers and fillers is not going to
take the loss himself. He passes the
cost on to the consumer who in the end
must pay the fiddler.
But this is not all. The manufactur
er who by the operation of the tariff
automatically increases the cost of the
wrapper that is to go on his cigar, will,
as a matter of course, seek to force the
cost of the unprotected binders down
to a figure where he can make up some
of the loss sustained in the high cost of
the other leaf entering into the manu
facture of his brands. If the tobacco
schedule, as it now is written into the
proposed permanent tariff act, goes on
the statute books, the Wisconsin grow
ers and packers would have to face
an onslaught upon the price of the
Wisconsin binders that might become,
not only uncomfortable, but serious.
As matters have been during the
Hast £wo years, the Wisconsin tobacco
farmer has not been in position to meet
further reduction in price upon the leaf
without being forced out of the tobacco
growing business entirely. Whatever
the effect an inflated tariff would have
upon the price of Wisconsin binders in
the future might be, one thing is cer
tain, and that i3 that it would not work
to the best interests of the Wisconsin
growers. The manufacturer would
have a mighty good talking point in de
clining to pay good prices for Wisconsin
binders, if the government clubs him
into paying an excessive price for the
cigar leaf, outside of the binders, that
he must have to produce his goods.
Just now the Wisconsin grower is not
in a mood to be pushed any stronger up
against the wall; he is standing with
his back against it, fighting for his
very existence, and he will not, with
out a most emphatic protest, submit to
conditions due to tariff manipulations
which would tend to still further em
barrass bis economic status.
The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter be
lieves that the Wisconsin tobacco men
everywhere should sign the protest and
send it to its senior senator, Robert M.
LaFollette, who is a member of the
Senate Finance committee, making it
clear to him how the folks back home
feel in this matter. *
The petitions may be signed at any
of the assorting and packing centers
where buyers of binder leaf reside and
operate.
***
The firm of Cullman Bros., packers
and importers of leaf tobacco, with
headquarters at 161 Front St., have in
corporated. T The certificate of incor
poration authorizes $1,000,000 of first
preferred stock. $2,000,000 of second
and twenty thousand shares of common
at no par value. The officers of the
company are: Joseph F. Cullman Sr.,
president; (Joseph F. Cullman Jr., vice
president; Howard S. Cullman, vice
president; Harry S. Rothschild, treas
urer; John Regan, secretary; Thomas
J. Reade, assistant treasurer. The di
rectors are: Joseph F. Cullman Sr.,
Joseph F. Cullman Jr., Howard S.
Cullman, Harry S. Rothschild and Louis
Muller. —Leaf.
* **
The annual report of the Liggett &
Myers Tobacco Cos. for the year ended
December 31, 1921, shows surplus after
taxes and charges of $9,854,157, equiv
alent after preferred dividends to
$25.33 a share earned on the $32,674,000
combined Class B and common stocks,
as compared with a surplus of $7,597,-
803, or $lB 68 a share on the $32,229,600
stock outstanding in the previous year.
—Leaf.
Wisconsin Tobacco Market
Edgerton, Wis., March 17, 1922.
The market has registered no sur
prises and no new developments during
the paet week. The Eisenlohr Bros,
and the Fendrich interests, represented
respectfully by Thomas A. Ellingson
and Chas. Sweeney & Son, are riding
through the southern Section to gather
in 1921 binders. Where they find the
sort of leaf that will cover their needs
the price continues 8 to 12 cents, accord
ing to type. But while this is true, it
is also true that many who had enter
tained hope of selling at these prices
are not offered more than 7 cents. The
growers who are not ready to part with
their leaf at this price are either hold
ing for better days or they are turning
their crops over to the co-operative
warehouses to put up for them. The
stemmers have been less active during
the last few days. They have stocked
up pretty well and can afford to freduce
speed.
In the northern section the organiza
tion of the Vernon County Co-operative
Tobacco Growers’ and Farm Produce
association is filling the minds and gov
erning the discussion of everybody.
The association is at work now handl
ing tobacco for the farmers on a rather
novel plan. The Reporter shall cover
this phase next week.
Will Smith & Son of Evansville for
the Weil interests, and other firms are
combing the northern counties for sound
leaf and getting some, but it takes
much riding and hard work to find lots
that are quality A-l.
Considerable 1920 for stemming was
bought in the southern section last
week.
The State Marketing department is
again offering the grower its assistance
in forming a direct marketing pool.
The matter fell through last year.
Whether a revival of such an organiza
tion will have better luck this year de
pends entirely upon the growers them
selves and upon the leadership offered
by the state.
Judging by the orders coming to the
seed dealers, the Wisconsin tobacco
growers do not contemplate going out
of business, even though the acreage
in some sections may be shaven some
what.
The Reporter invites the attention of
all tobacco men to the Note Book
Sketch, “A Protest.”
New York
New York, March 2, 1922.
In its weekly review the Tobacco
Leaf takes the following slant at the
cigar leaf market:
All manufacturers are still adhering
pretty rigidly to the policy of buying
little and buying often. There have
been no transactions during the past
week which would rank as individually
important. But the fact that practic
ally every order is accompanied by in
structions for immediate shipment, is a
more than fair basis for the assump
tion of the leaf merchant that the leaf
supplies of the majority of manufac
turers are at the lowest possible ebb.
It is reasonable to suppose, therefore,
that business will continue mildly ac
tive at least until that indefinite future
time when cigar production speeds up
to a point that will make heavier leaf
purchases necessary.
New England
Hartford, Ct., March 1, 1922.
V. A. Sanders, crop statistician,
United States Department of Agricul
ture, has collected and summarized for
publication tobacco acreage figures in
accordance with the request made by
the tobacco committee of the Hartford
County Farm Bureau. His report on
the tobacco acreage shows 16,831 acres
of Broadleaf grown in Connecticut in
1921. Six hundred and thirty-one acres
were entirely destroyed by wildfire,
hail, etc , leaving 16,200 acres harvest
ed. For the entire acreage harvested
the average yield per acre, sorted
weight, appears to be 1,330 pounds.
This makes a total production of 21,-
546,000 pounds.
Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pa., March 1, 1922.
It is a fact, that while there has been
considerable buying done, there has
been no intensive drive as yet and some
of the big concerns have not gone into
the field to any considerable extent.
Whether or not they intend to lay off
the 1921 crop, or whether they are only
marking time is a matter of conjec
ture, and both sides of the tobacco
proposition hereabouts have opinions in
the matter. It looks, however, as if
there would he some “driving” done
within the next couple of weeks.
Ohio
Dayton, 0., March 1, 1922.
There has been a decidedly active
movement in Zimmer and Gebbardt to
baccos of the 1921 crop during the past
two weeks which has resulted in a
practical clean-up of the Zimmer end
and the purchase of a substantial block
of the Gebhardt by E. Rosenwald &
Bro. The principal factors in the field
were the general Cigar Cos., E. Rosen
wald & Bro., H. Fendrich, Cullman
Bros., L. Newburgh and Arnold Tietig
& Son.
FULTON LODGE NO. 69
A. F. AND A. M.
Meeting Ist and 3rd Tuesdays of
Each Month.
Edgerton Chapter R. A. M.
Meeting 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of
Each Month.
Visiting Brethren Welcome.
E. M. HUBBELL
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton - Wisconsin
NELS E. NELSON
Leaf Tobacco
Choice Northern Leaf
WAREHOUSES
Ferryville - Edgerton
ROCK COUNTY
Tobacco Growers Association
Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
202 Riverside St., Janesville, Wis.
CARROLL & DEMBO
Packers and Dealers in Fine
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco
Janesville, Wisconsin
New York Office—l 47 Water Street
EBER ARTHUR
Packer and Dealer In
Leaf Tobacco,
616-620 W. Milwaukee St.
Janesville, Wisconsin
HERMAN ANDERSON
DEALER IN
Leaf Tobacco
Janesville, Wis., R. D. No. 1
C. W. BACON
DEALER IN
Leaf Tobacco,
Packer of Wisconsin
New Binders Now Ready
Madison - Wisconsin
A. E. GAREY
Attorney -at-Law
First National Bank Bldg.
Edgerton, Wisconsin
E. M. LADD,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law
REAL ESTATE
FIRE INSURANCE
Edgerton, Wisconsin
GEO. W. BLANCHARD
Attorney - at- Law
Mclntosh-Thompson Block
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin
MRS. VAN NESS GREEN
Teacher of Voice and Piano
Fall Term Begins Oct. Ist
Residence at Carlton Hotel
Private Phone No. 380
MARGARET L. MOONFY
Life Insurance
Office - - Henry Johnson’s Agency
EDGERTON, WISCONSIN
MAX HENDERSON
Lawyer
Care Potter, Sherwood & Henderson
112 W. Adams Street ,
CHICAGO
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