The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-01-24


various advantages to be derived from
the establishment of home market,
but once more will we endeavor to call |
the attention of the people to these ad-
vantages. First and most deeply is it
an advantage to the grower himself.
it precludes the necessity of his haul
ing his crop to neighboring markets, a
distance of from anywhere from twelve
to thirty five miles, through all kinds
of weather and all kinds of conditions,
much to the detriment of his own
own health and comfort and that of his
hands and his stock; it enables him to
market his crop in one day, when here
totore it has taken from one to three,
it enables him to await the proper tone
of the market before offering his rails
ing, and when offered, if the price is
not satisfactory, to reject without the
necessity of making another long and
tedious trip to distant market, and
avoid the enormous expense of such
rejection; in fact it offers all the ad-
vantages, with which the farmer is so
well acquainted, of home market.
Other advantages to be derived are
manifold; the various buyers who come
on our market are compelled to have
houses in which to handle their pur-
chases, this would mean additional
barns would be in demand which would
command good price, additional labor
would be employed, much of it home
labor, which would mean the scatter
ing of more money in the community,
as well as employment for idle men and
boys; they would be compelled to have
teams for the transportation of their
purchase, which would mean money to
the liverymen and teamsters, and in
various other ways would they prove
of advantage to the community. The
greatest advantage, to our minds, in
the establishment of home market,
would be in the fact, that money OBJ
tanned from home products would be
kept at home; the checks given for the
home product would be deposited in
home banks; there would be no pur-
chasing of goods at stores in neighbor-
ing towns in order to get the money on
their checks, the checks would simply
be deposited in the home bank and the
grower would make his purchases of his
home merchant, the man who has car
ried him when he had no tobacco crop
to sell, and who consequently, prices
and all other considerations being equal,
is entitled to his trade. These few OF
many advantages which we have en-.
deavored to call attention to, should, in
our mind, stimulate every citizen in the
county to offer every inducement tc
those who are seeking to establish 9
home market, even to the taking OF
stock in the proposed concern; and
that such stock is not a bad investment
has been proven in adjoining towns,
and we believe would so prove in Ian.
caster.
1t looks worse than useless to agar
call attention to the bulk and quality
of Garrard county product; this veal
we have in the neighborhood of six
millions of pounds of tobacco in Gar.
rard county, and of a quality unsur.
passed anywhere in any tobacco grow
ing country. This fact is attested tt
by the undisputable evidence of Gar
rard county tobacco commanding the
top price on every market on which il
is offered, and by the further fact thai
buyers are here daily, securing the
county in search of our production, mo-
home buyers alone, but men represent
ing the various warehouses throughout
the state. This of itself is evidences
that our tobacco is in demand, and put
to shame the very idea of the films,
theory advanced by some people oppos
ed to the plan of home market, tina
1--WE cannot get the buyers, or tina
"the railroads will discriminate agains
US in the matter of rates."
The outlook for 1918 is for an unpre
cedented crop of tobacco in the county
Will we be prepared to care for thi
crop AT HCME? The answer lies will
you. Will you give your aid, influence
and assistance toward making this pos
sible? You will reap your reward il
many ways, the establishment of sucl
market will prove to your advantage
no matter what may be your line Of
business.
| Now when you are approached or
this subject, no matter how or by whom
give it your careful and earnest con
sideration, look at it from every stand
point, and if you do not aid, be sure
you do not discourage such an effort.
The efforts which are being made are
unselfish ones, no one has an axe tc
grind, there are no selfish motives, the
good of the entire community is being
kept in view and the community to a
man should render every assistance in
their power in tutherance of the
scheme.