Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-17
Tobacco TIdlngS.

accepted Dy the Association. 1he
Association must know by November
first the closest possible approxima-
ton to the number of pounds of
tobacco pledged IN the district to
the end that adequate provision may
be made for the proper care of the
same.
From the GAINESVILLE Association
the Executive Committee of the
Stemming Association will, l con-
fidently predict, adopt this excellent
method Of procedure: That Associ-
alton goes along receiving and priz-
ing tobacco, meanwhile watching the
Trust narrowly to see what 1t is
paying non-members for tobacco, and
when that price is firmly established
the Association makes a price on
Association tobacco, which is from
two to four dollars more than non
members have gotten. Last year
that Association sold 80, 900 hogs
heads on these terms. see where
Buckner, one of the best posted to-
bacco men in GAINESVILLE district,
says that fifty thousand hogsheads
Of the 1907 crop will be pledged to
and sold by that Association. Or
So per cent. of the 1907 crop.
Last season the Stemming District
Tobacco Association received ten
and half million pounds Of tobacco.
This year, by the LIST day of Novem-
Der, this Association will have under
pledge to it by the same four coun-
ties, supplemented by Crittenden.
seventeen to eighteen million pounds
Of the 1907 crop.
Think Of it--this Association is
ncw safeguarding for the farme RS Of
the Eve counties, eliminating what
has been sold, twenty-five million
pounds Of tobacco Of the value Of
two and one half million of dollars
which vast sum Of money, so easily
written and so difficult to the ment al
grasp, which will finally be distrib-
uted to four thousand members Of
the Association.
And yet the lnsolent Tobacco
Trust seems, from the motions Of its
local agents, to be as hell-bent as on
bending the wills Of these four thous-
and Kentuckians to the cruel, greedy
and repacIous plunderiugs of the
Trust.
10 pauperize the farming pOpula-
ton Of five great Kentucky counties.
Thank heaven, there is just one
sure way to tEwart the impious will
of the Trust. Only insure to the
Association 80 per cent. of this 1907
crop. That does the business be
yond cavil. Webster apd Hender-
son counties by the first of next
month will have 80 per cent. of the
1907 crop. For our committeeman
are IN their nettle and will put two
good discreet, energetic men to work
in each magisterial district with in
structions TO visit owners Of the I'M
pooled scattering crops. and when
these owners learn there is to date
So per cent. already signed up, self
interest alone will impel to cooper
ate.
Union county already has three
times the tobacco in the Association
she had last year.
And Hopkins county is aroused as
never before.
And gallant little Crittenden is
forging to the fore.
And you member, every mothers
son of you, who read this notice
you who have your tobacco in the
Association--only think what 1t
means to you to put 80 per cent of
the 1907 crop in. Then get out
your horse and light out to your non.
member neighbor. If properly in
formed your neighbor can't stay out.
You know your neighbor will never
regret IT as long as he lives if e
goes into the Association. You know,
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