Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-08-05
POOLING PLEDGE
Dissatisfaction Exists Among
Members of Planters AssO.

is centered in the dark tobacco dis
trict over the new membership pied
ges which have been issued by the
directors of the Dark Tobacco Grow
ers' Association. There is consider
able dissatisfaction among some of
the members. The future of the
association will depend largely upon
whether the pledges are signed by
enough farmers TO control the tobac-
co market, Following the pledge
adopted for Kentucky members:
I'VE the undersigned, who have
affixed hereunto our signatures, to-
gether with many other persons who
have entered into a similar agree
ment with the Planters Protective
Association of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia, for the purpose of
combining or pooling our crops of
tobacco raised or to be raised by us,
or that we may own or control. dur
ing the years 1909. 1910 and 1911,
hereby engage, appoint and employ
irrevocably and as our sole agent,
the Planters Protective Association
of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
to sell said tobacco for US collective
ly or separately or in any other way
as it may decide or desire to do.
I'VE agree and obligate ourselves
to it and each other to prepare for
market all of said tobacco, and to do
so in the way and manner said cor
poration may designate, and to de-
liver the same to the places and per-
sons it may name, and to allow it to
have full and complete control Of
the sale Of same. and further agree
to abide by and conform to all IT'S
decisions and acts, and to fulfill all
of its contracts and agreements con-
nected with the preparation for
market, the delivery and sale Of said
tobacco.
The Planters Protective Associ,
alton obligates itself to make con.
tracts for the benefit of the under
signed. to prize the tobacco of the
undersigned covered by this contract
and to require of such prizers a bond
with surety for the faithful perform
ance Of said contract to prize proper
! ly, protect and insure said tobacco
against loss by fire or the maximum
amount procurable thereon, and t(
make contracts with storage.house
men to store the tobacco for the IN
dersigned, and to require the stor
age .housemen to execute a bond fol
the faithful performance of said con
tracts to store said tobacco for tht
undersigned in houses in good con
dition, to protect said tobacco anC
keep same insured against loss by fir,
, for the maximum amount procura
bic thereon said tobacco and to col
lect and settle in reasonable time
not exceeding three weeks after sal
. of tobacco of the undersigned; an,
: said Association farther agrees t
employ competent statesmen and in
spectors to sell and inspect Tobacco
of the undersigned and to requir,
them to make bond for the faithful
! performance of their contract wit
/ the said association, and said assoc
\ alton further agrees that all sums G
s money it may recover, but no NOR
!. of prizer or of storage .housema
s a salesman or an Inspector or undt
r his bond for any violation of his col
t tract it will pay over to such of l
O as may have been damaged by tt
: default of any of the before mel
toned contracts.
=. "And whereas the association wi
g incur great expense upon its part
ie order to carry out this contract,
+ is further agreed that if any Of |
IS shall fail to comply with any of tt
terms of this contract, said associ
ton will sustain a damage, ii
amount of which is difficult to asce
Is tain with accuracy, and for the pu
e pose of adjusting same in advance
is agreed that said damages shall
aud are now fixed at two dolla
lSO nON ,,or. nrn hundred Mounds .