The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-27
MR., LRDAN Ex-LAINs HIS PLAN

Details of ais scheme for Combating
The Tobacco rus - h obacco
Urower TO Srotect himself aod do in
Justice to no One
Jor ssoondence II one Progressive Farmer
am IN rece,p5 of Sd many Inq lIrles
concerning the details of roy plan
adopted by the State tobacco Growers
Association tina | hav5 CDn5iud"d 20
ASK space in your columns 60 give the
public more of the plan Ia detail tnan
/ nave y baon aole TO DO
TIE plan provides FIR the organ'za
ton of a company euh iently STRONG
financially to buy toe entire CROP OF
tobacco grown In Norm o ~rOlina, Var
GINA. S1uGh Oar DINA and E SIS Ter mes
see for a term Of five years. Il was
impossible for the s ate Convention IN
Raleigh to work oug and establish all
che details for the management OF a
gigantic orgar'Z ti1n of this kind. All
that the convention could do was to
get q starting pO'n5, or rather q foun'
detion UPON which 60 build the stFuC
ture, aud hence the adoption OF b
agreement whereby the farmers are to
receive not less than Is per cent more
for the crops 10 be raised by them dur
ing the mex five years than they have
received tor the last five years crops,
the farmers agreeing to take Is per
cent. of their crop in stock OF This
company. This means thai tObaccOs
are to priced according tt grades and
not according to oroOs I5 w0ul1 be
manifestly unfair to give the man who
raises a mean crop the same price n
man who raises a good crop would re-
GIVE
Should the farmers agree to go into
this arrangement, aad have organic d
themselves 10 every county when nj
time arrives for the permanent Or<an
Il 8CiOn of the company and the Eig0ing
of Iron clad agreements, I do not Ut
dertake to say that said agreements
will be dra wn n strict accordance with
tne agreement adopted IN R4leIgh
When negotiations nave reached this
stage the plan contemDlates that q
large DO ard, consisting of as manv
farmers from all over the toba GO
raising districts as the farmers them
selves gee fit to appoint to represent
them, will meet a like board ap
pointed by the parties who furnish the
money It will be the duty OF these
lint boards to actually agree on al
che details for the management of THE
organization This means that tni4
BOARD is to prepare the iron clad agree
ment for the individual farmers to
eign, and to FIX the price the con pauY
is to pay for each grade of tobacco
bought during the first years business (;
a similar board to meet eacE succeed
ing year to fix prizes for tnas year
When all this has been done, and 80
per sent of the farmers, or enough o
control 80 per cent, of the tobacco,
have signed the iron clad agreement,
then the company will be organTz d
and ready for business.
As it takes all the warehouses, Leaf
factories, storage warehouses etc, on
the different markets to handle the
crop now, it will be much cheaper for
this organic .tion to arrange with the
owners Of tne said warehouses, factor
les, etc to run the m than is would be
to buy them or rebuild others.
This being true and good business
policy, we will take the warehouse
first: the farmer will Jake his to0ac, 20
to the warehouse lst as he always has
done. The Warehousem4n will weig7
it and put it on the Fl )or al he does
nov. Then instead Of selling it at auc
ton, four graders, two farmers and
two expert tobacco men, will say where
each grade belongs. For instance: II
the big board ABOVE mentioned has
fixed the price of the best grade of
cents, the third at 80 cents. and the
best grade Of cutters a % cents, the
next at 30 cents, the next a IL cents
and 90 on do wn through all the various
grades, it will be for these graders to
say where each grade of each farmer
belongs. In order that the graders
may be prevented from sho wiz g any
partially, the warehouseman wall
write and number the owners name in
his book and put a correspond ing NUN.
Der on the ticket on each grade, so that
the graders can never tell whose to
bacco they are grading
After the tobacco has been placed on
the floors and graded as ABOVE de-