The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-13

Board Of Control. Each county boz
sent a man to the State Board OF Goa
troll at Winchester. OVer the ertiu.
organization there was one man. Il.
president. He is Clarence LIE Bus. o..
Cynthiana. He is a. tobacco grow
and was a tobacco SPECTATOR; a rl.r
of quite q li,tle fortune. He has
large, strong mouth. He has Quj.n
eyes that dart swiftly from one thu
to another. Both mouth and ey,~
break easily into a smile that is el
gaging. It is an abSent-mindea slrib
however. A word Of greetine, inspir.~
it. He need not have the least i'd,
of What is said, or who is %speakin-
He laughs heartily, enthusiastical1t
| and an instant later his mind quick,
turns to something else. His is
shrewd, stalwart, energetic, mObih
personality. The barons over ninety
two thousand eight hundred acre
delegated to him the produce OF the.
domain. He was to be the One Sale
man-the head Of the Trust to feh.
the Trust.
Thus the crusade for a higher prjc,
for Burley tobacco was started. TIL
plan Of campaign was simply to 'cOr-
| ner'' the supply of tobacco and hold il
until the American Tobacco Compan>
and independent buyers would be com
PEELED to pay q. price to be fixed b>
Il IN ~ CiIl IIIo
Burley Tobacco Society members d.
livered their 1906 crop, as yet unsOld.
to their county boards of ~control.sand
it was stored wherever convenient
They were to do the same with thejl
1907 crop. The society, at the mos
advantageous time. would sell it liz
Jumps direct to manufacturers. TIL
crusade at INC entered on the mis-
siOnary stage. Growers as yet I'm
pledged must be persuaded to delivtr
their crops TO the pool, for any BurleH
a leaking to tho open market
would weaken the farmers monopoly
by that much. Equity was constantly
the creed preached by the missionary
Men went into office TO the LegiSla
ture, to on the creed.
The widespread senticent too
deeper roo and after a. time it reach
ed fanaticism. Directly there wer,
scowls for the dissenter. Not all. TIN
tobacco growers joined the s%ocietl-
There were independent growers Who
refused to 200 their crops. inst rs
there are independent manufacture
who are not connected with the Amer-
lean Tobacco Company. The lie Eu$
trust was, therefore. fighting not only
q Trust. but the independent manu-
facturers and independent
The desire for higher prices WIS
unanimous among the farmers. but
SS ~ MIN IN " I -
independent oWe thought tflrN
would rather sell their tobacco them
selves. Manv Of these yielded to Ru1-
ley Tobacco Society arguments bccaus,
they were conyinced: others that thu
might he at peace in their communi-
ties. But those that remained orfsiG,
drew at last on an Unborn hpritace
Of A~nglo-Saxon stubbornness. a mar
a a right to tend to his own busi-
ness as o n as there's breath in his
carcass they said. It had become .
matter Of principle with them. They
We're opposed to both trusts. TIL
lines We're drawing tight
Equity hopes rose with the harvest
ing OF the 1902 rop The test of the
nool was at hand. and prices seemed
to be advancing. This looked like
success. EQUITY growers as a rule
faithfully delivered their tobacco to
the County Board Of Control, and re
ceived h hoard certificates fo~ il
Their certificates merely credited then
With the number Of pounds delivered
might sell the certificates, or use
them as collateral. but they could not
sell the tobacco itself. They had civ
EN- up all title III that. They would be
paid for 1t only when the executive
board at Winchester saw fit to sell
RMS uncertainty rendered the certiti
Gates less valuable. The grower coulc
realize more on the actual tobacco.
The season advanced. and the poo
grew by the million Of pounds. Still
the bulk Of it remained unsold. Thu
American Tobacco Company did not.
hetray eagerness. It announced itselt
willing to buy from and seller. Equity
or Individual. at prices which cCulc
he agreed upon. but declared that it
had obtained all that wa needed from
the independent growers presumably
figures lower than Mr.. lie Bus quot
Mr.. Le rus. the one salesman
found himself with an almost untfink-
able amount of tobacco IN hand. about
million pounds OF the 1907 crop.
? nd q bnut fourteen million pounds OF
the 1906 crop. ThouSan dds of farmers
throughout the Blue Grass who owneo
h a tobacco were counting on him,