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VOLUME 49
ilenry Johnson
‘THE SERVICE AGENCY”
is prepared to write
INSURANCE
of every Kind.
Phone 18. Edgerton, Wi.
This Office will Give You the Best
There i9 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
G. HANSEN. C. H. HANSEN
HANSEH BROS.
Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton • • Wis.
W. T. Pomeroy & Cos.
Dealers in and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton - - - Wisconsin
C. E. SWEENEY & SONS
Packers of Wisconsin
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton, Wisconsin
E D G E RT O N
Farmers Warehouse Cos.
DEALERS IN
Leaf Tobacco
Licensed under U S. Warehouse Act
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin.
C. J. JONES & SON
Packers of and Dealers in
Leaf Tobacco
107-109 North Franklin Street
Janesville, - Wisconsin.
6- ROSENWALD & BRO.
STTCCEBBOR TO
>#. Hosenwald & Bro. and I. Bijur & Son.
PACKBRB OF
Leaf Tobacco
146 Water Street,
New York City.
E. HASKINS
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 ol
Leaf Tobacco
Janesville, Wisconsin
The Jefferson Leaf Tobacco Cos.
Dealers In and Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
SPARTA. WISOONbIN.
THE EARLE TOBACCO CO.
Packer of and Dealer in
LEAF TOBACCO.
PUBLIC storage:
EDGERTON, - WISCONSIN.
GREENS’ TOBACCO CO.,
Dealers in Leaf Tobacco,
STORAGE OAPAOITY, ... 16,000 OASES
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
Original “LINDE” New York Seed Leaf Tobacco Inspection
ESTABLISHED IN 1864.
F. C. LINDE. HAMILTON & CO. INC.
Tobacco Inspectors, Weighers *s Warehousemen
Office, 182 Pearl St.. New York City. Branches In. all of the principal tobacco district
T. W. Dickinson, Special Agent, Edgerton, Wis. Phone 94 and 173.
\
To Holders of U. S.
Victory Loan Bonds
Bonds of this issue which bear letters
A staU His Society _ £) _ E Of F
Have been called for payment and interest will
cease on these bonds December 15
You Can Receive Your Money for These
Bonds Now at This Bank
Tobacco Exchange Bank
Edgerton, Wisconsin
Roilie Williams
Cigar
The Badger Flash
Now on the market. Look for it.
Edgerton Cigar Cos., Man 'VtoXta
THE LINAAS CIGAR COMPANY
Manufacturers of the
Blue Ribbon, Country Club, and All Wisconsin Cigars
ALL WISCONSIN CLIPPINGS
Edgerton, Wisconsin
ANDREW JENSON & SON
Packers of Leaf Tobacco
Public Storage—s cents per case per month.
EDGERTON - - WISCONSIN
N. L. CARLE & CO.
{Packers of and Dealers in;
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco,
Janesville, - - Wisconsin.
MABBETT LEAF TOBACCO CO.
PACKERS OF
i .
Northern Wisconsin Tobacco
WHITEHALL, - WISCONSIN
EDGERTON, ROCK COUNTY, WISCONSIN, DECEMBER 8, 1922.
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES
It is reported that some measures of
reorganization of the Pool headquarters
personnel are contemplated, and that
some changes have already taken place.
John Holtan, who nas been serving as
warehouse manager, has had his activi
ties transferred largely to the sales
managership for the organization. The
general manager, Mr. C. A. Hoen, is
for the time being also taking care of
the secretary and treasurer office left
vacant by the resignation of G. 0.
Moen. Selmer Neprud, who was ap
pointed field expert and publicity head,
may retire from the active service of
the Pool and remain in his old position
as superintendent of the Vernon county
asylum, Viroqua. Just how this depart
ment will be served is not given out. The
change which has caused the greatest
amount of comment, and, in certain
quarters, surprise, is the appointment
of C. N. Pulley of the Marketing De
partment to assist as warehouse di
rector.
** *
When be discussed in this column a
couple weeks ago the advantage of co
operative advertising we did not real
ize how much of this is being done in
many important industries. An effort
to organize the Wisconsin packers for
that method of advertising is now under
way, and may bear results, though too
many of the packers who have not
seen the advantage of individual adver
tising hold back also in coming across
for co-operative effort in this line.
Quoting George C Sherman, adver
tising wizard, in the editorial column of
the Leaf:
Intelligent marketing is, of course,
vital to the success of any unit of an
industry. Co-operative advertising and
merchandising has demonstrated its
great effectiveness in other important
industries —for instance, in the markets
of paint, confectionery, canned goods,
fruit, milk, lumber and many other
products. The group idea of combined
“Push” has actually re-created and re
vitalized entire markets at compara
tively insignificant cost in relation to
the benefits accruing to the individual
Jbwsiness concerned.
In the following from U. S. Tobacco
Journal there is another slant:
Co-operative societies, co-operative
associations, co-operative pools! Every
thing is being conducted along the co
operative idea now, it seems, the to
bacco growers being among the most
recent recruits to the movement that
has far its chief object the elimination
of the middleman in getting merchan
dise from first hands to the market.
If these associations will make it pos
sible for the profit now going to the
middlemen to be retained by the grow
ers or to be reflected in the price of the
tobacco as it goes to the consumer,
nothing but good can come from their
operation.
If, on the other hand, honest, but
mistaken, leaders develop these asso
ciations into mere holding corporations,
that may blatantly override the law of
supply and demand and attempt to get
an artificially high price for their prod
uct by withholding it from the market
when it is really wanted, the resultant
situation will he more adverse to the
best interests of the industry than the
middlemen ever were.
Though not generally recognized, the
middleman has ever been a great sta
bilizer of trade. His force has been
that of a gyroscope keeping an even
keel a cumberson craft tossing through
impetuous waters. He has given in
numerable attestations of his value as
a saving support in years filled with
grave crises.
With an accurate knowledge of the
country’s consumption capacity and the
probable trend of general commercial
courses, the middleman has proven him
self a bulwark on which the grower
could dependably set his hopes for
prices as high as conditions would per
mit. Viewing him from the other side,
the middleman has been the manufac
turer’s best friend, the alertness of his
contemporaries making quotations out
of consonance with values extremely
precarious As his profits are small,
the middleman watches more carefully
than the general run of business men
the so-called unimportant demands of
his clientele, as he is constantly mind
ful that many years of satisfactory
dealings must lie between him and the
accumulation of a competence. Ac
counts of the enormous profits of mid
dlemen are, as a rule, nothing more
than fabricated distortions of fact.
Even the oldest house in the trade
could with futility scan through its
reminiscences for instances of middle
men having joined the millionaire class
after several decades of successful op
eration. As the middleman’s activities
must of necessity stretch over a long
period of years, his stabilizing influence
is doubtless one of the prime reasons
for the position of prominence he has
occupied in the commercial organism
for so many centuries.
Practically without a single exce
tion, those industries in which the elim
ination of the middleman has become
nearly complete the promised reduction
in the price of the commodity by the
time it reached the consumer never
materialized. On the contrary, the
price to the consumer has been in
creased to figures that in many in
stances were out of keeping with val
ues. The California fruit industry was
one of the first to oust the middleman.
With his exit entered an advance in
oranges and other fruits many times
above the prices that had previously
obtained.
Wisconsin Tobacco Market
Edgerton, Wis., Dec. 8, 1922.
Thanksgiving day came in with a
driving rain and everybody was rubbing
thesr hoping that a real case
weather spell was on. The prospests
failed. Then came Monday with a driz
zle, fog and still, muggy air; the sheds
were opened and hopes ran high, but
before dark the wind flew into the
northwest, the moisture dropped out of
the air and a clear, crisp night follow
ed. The tobacco hangs hard and dry in
the sheds’ It is safe enough where it
is, but it will take most favorable
weather in the next soft spell to put it
inco the right sort of “case.” The
growers would like to get it down this
month in order to get the stripping
done during the middle of the winter.
However, the thing is off now for some
little time.
The representatives of Ithe stemmers
have been active in all sections. Every
section from Orfordville and to the
northern border of the tobacco terri
tory has been visited by buyers. The
boost to 10c for stemming swept a
large acreage out of the independent
growers’ hands, and last week when an
additional £c was Dinned to the bait
more slipped into the anglers’ baskets.
In Rock county the tobacco not signed
up with the Pool is 75 to 80 per cent
bought. Judging by the acreage gone
into the stemmers’ and packers’ con
tract books in the county, the indepen
dent end of it is as large as the*portion
signed up for the Pool. In Dane county,
especially in the towns of Albion and
Christiana, the Pool covers the bulk of
acreage, and consequently the buying
activity is low there.
In the northern counties packers are
still hnnting for passable assorting leaf
and now and then a sale of this type is
made also in the southern section, but
for the past two weeks the stemmers
have occupied the center of the stage.
While this movement of lifting the in
dependent acreage has been in progress
the negotiations between the repre
sentatives of the big “Five” and the
Pool for its holdings of low grades have
been furnishing the street with all sorts
of rumors and more and less wild
guesses. Fred Green of Toledo, Ohio,
representing Liggett & Myers; S. R.
Morrow, the representative of Bloch
Bros.; Geo Gary of Madison, for Lor
illard & Cos.; Walter Scotten and Ray
Dillon of the firm of the same name,
together with their local representa
tives in the state, have held confer
ences with the Pool officials, but up to
Tuesday of this week no definite under
standing had been arrived at. On Tues
day matters began to take shape, and
the information reaching us indicates
that satisfactory understandings have
been arrived at and that the big stem
mers eventually will pro rata the Pool
low grades.
Lots of old tobacco held by growers
are still furnishing some interest, and
some sales are reported, but in the na
ture of it this activity is not creating
much comment, though the quantity of
tobacco of this sort changing hands is
not so unimportant in the aggregate.
New York
New York, Nov. 25, 1922.
There was a serious shortage of sound
binder grades of northern Wisconsin in
the 1921 packing and the market is so
bare of this class of tobacco that it is
claimed some interests have been un
able to secure a sufficient supply and
are in a quandry to know how they are
going to provide themselves with the
grade of binders they have been accus
tomed to using on their cigars.
Wrapper and binder tobaccos are
still having their inning and during this
period the market has been rather in
active on filler grades, but it is believed
that after the manufacturers have pro
vided themselves with their necessary
quota of wrappers and binders they will
turn their attention to the buying of
fillers. Thi3 period, it is believed, is
not far distant, and when buyers come
into the market for this type of tobac
co thay are going to find that there is
by no means an overabundance of Ohio
and Pennsylvania fillers available.—
Leaf.
New England
Hartford, Ct., Nov. 22, 1922.
An important as well as instructive
meeting of tobacco warehousemen, who
have contracted with the Connecticut
Valley Tobacco Association, Inc., for
handling the 1922 crops by the new
pool, was held at headquarters, 225-229
State St., Monday afternoon. General
Manager Fred B. Griffin gave and out
lined details of what the warehousemen
were to do in the matter of sorting and
packing. Some of the warehousemen
will sort only; others will pack only,
and others will both pack and sort. It
is declared that about 25 per cent of
the Broadleaf will be sorted in ware
houses of the association and the re
mainder by individual assorting. After
the tobacco is assorted at home by the
grower, it will again be placed in bun
dles and held until orders come to move
it to the assigned warehouse. —Leaf.
Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 24, 1922.
The crop of 1922 Pennsylvania tobac
co is placed at 53,000,000 pounds in a
preliminary estimate by G. L. Morgan,
U. S. agricultural statistician. Mr.
Morgan, in a report of the state’s crop
situation, estimates the tobacco crop at
1300 pounds to the acre. This year’s
yield is below that of 1921 and slightly
less than the average for the past ten
years. The 1921 crop was 61,320,000
pounds and the ten year average pro
duction was 55,611,000 pounds. The
quality of the 1922 crop is placed at 86
per cent of normal as against 94 per
Concluded on page 4
FULTON LODGE NO. 8P
A. F. AND A. M.
Meeting Ist and 3rd Tuesdays of
Each Month.
Edgerton Chapter R. A. M
Meeting 2nd and 4th Tuesdays oi
Each Month.
Visiting Brethren Welcome
E. M. HUBBELL
Leaf Tobacco
Edgerton - Wisconsin
NELS E. NELSON
Leaf Tobacco
Choice Northern Leaf
WAREHOUSES
Feri-yville - Edgerton
ROCK COUNTY
Tobacco Growers Associi
Packers of
Leaf Tobacco
202 Riverside St., Janesville, Wis—
MUTUAL TRUST
LIFE INSURANCE
J. F KELLER, Gist. Manager
Telephone 406
Edgerton, - - Wisconsin
EBER ARTHUR
Packer and Dealer In
i_eaf 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
WISCONSIN LEAF TOBACCO CO.
INCORPORATED
Madison, Wisconsin
113 West Gorham
E. C. TALLARD, V. P. and Manager.
Harper Leal Tobacco Cos.
Packers of
Northern
Wisconsin Tobacco
Tomah, Wisconsin
E. M. LADD,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law
REAL ESTATE
FIRE INSURANCE
Edgerton, Wisconsin
MARGARET L. MOONEY
Life Insurance
Office - - Henry Johnson’s Agency
EDGERTON, WISCONSIN
MAX HENDERSON
Lawyer
Care Potter, Sherwood & Henderson
112 W. Adams Street
CHICAGO
NUMBER 4

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