The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-12-09
AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF THE COM
BINE.

AN OUTLINE SKETCH OF THE COM
BINE.
4 board of directors composed of one
member from each county of the tobac-
co-gr0Wing counties.
This board of directors to be appointed
by the North Carolina Tobacco Grow
ers' Association, which meets in Decem-
ber This board to organize the tobacco
growing farmers in each county into sub
organizations at every school house in
their counties.
There shall be also a general agent
and sub-county agents appointed, some
thing on the order of the insurance COM
paDies These directors shall have pow
er TO appoint agents and organize and
direct the trust as best they can for the
best interest of the tobacco-grower of
the State and to encourage other States
TO organize and cooperate with the trust
of r..is Safe.
The sub-agents of each county shall
organize clubs at school houses and CO.
operate with the Alliance when pos
Sble. The agents shall take an itemiZ-
ed account Of each members crop as to
acres TO be planted and amount of guano
Per acre to be used, etc.
The towns where tobacco sales are
held shall also be organized and all ware
houses asked to join the trust, and every
man who deals in or buys tobacco or
handles or is interested IN it in any
way, may become members. All men and
Warehouses that do not become members
are to be boycotted by this farmers
trust
The board Of directors shall fix the min
Of al of
and the warehouscman shall start his
sales at or above this fixed price. All
the trust houses shall have al
phabetical list of the trust farmers; and
when his tobacco is weighed, the word
trust" shall be written by his name on
ms tag. thus the Warehouseman knowing
the trust price, and will offer the tobacco
at or above that price.
This trust should be organized this
winter and the agents put into each dis
irIct at once. BY the middle of June
l'93. this association should have another
meeting and all the farmers meet and
near the full report of the board of di-
Iertors. BY this time every tobacco
grower should be a member of the trust
and the board should be able to report
Jhe exact number of acres in cultiva atior
ana the amount of guano used on the
crop, also the number of pounds Of to-
oacco that will be sold next fall and win
Ter.
Now. IN order to make this thing go
1lgfe must be some money; so each far
Her who joins the trust must ply sc
"l1eh for each acre he is going to plant
7"y hIty cents or $40, as the directors
see Mt. The dealers, pinhOokers, etc.
should pay from s. to $40, and ware
houses from $50 to $500 There should
or put into the treasury plenty of money
W make the trust a success. The State
agent should be paid $4,000 to $4,000 sal
'ly and the county agents from $500 tc
f-.=.V per year. These county agents
must give all their time to the work, anc
50 from house to house and get every
I"Fner who grows one acre and more O
'o4aeco to join the trust. These men
'0oFe all else, should be the very bes
BUSINESS men to be had.
mere are many details in connection
"llh this plan that | might discuss here
"1 send the above suggestions now
-' others may discuss them through you
payer and the press generally, and l an
'-a good plan of organization cal
~. ha1 by which we can fix the price o
cur tobacco.
IHe price of cotton can be controlled
inc same way.