Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
mere recently SUSTAINED al eisnt-csnt
average meant that they must offer

association to show their crops or re
ceive bid which did not come
through the associations sales depart
ment. The buying interests also want
ed to impress these men with what
they were doing.
II Is manifest that under such condi
lions, the buying interests Which re
quired and expected 20 procure the en-
tire product OF TIE season ultimately
could not afford 10 have two prices. AS
soon az q few sales had been effeciel
by the association It's prices were
known, and Notwithstanding the bug
ing interests Disseminated against as
ISOLATION tobacco as 10 time, not buy
ing 1t until they had exhausted every
other source of supply, they would
scarcely wish to have II appear they
bought tobacco from non-association
men at one L-i-o subsequently, bayna1
essociat on tobacco at another and
better price. SO he suggested STRAIT
egy was in ma,.,a 20 apgcar s5soc.a'
ticn and non-associa. prices were
running meek and neck
But by having buyers who had tell
nical knowledge OF tobacco, the grow
er, without technical knowledge, was
at a disadvantage. II must be evide0!
that the purpose of he buying inter
ests was to satisfy the non.associatio1
man by comparison with association
prices.
There has been no other agency 81
influence at work to advance and sus
tain prices.
But In the two seasons since the Is.
sociation's sale department has been
discontinued we observe the price i
tobacco declined to below cost of pro
duct'on or approximately Size pei
pound, no,w .hst6ading last seasons
prof S to buyers we're exceptionally
good.
|. has frequently been said that IN
d.vldual growers have remarked they
would prefer to sell their tobacco at
cents in November or December than
at cents the following May or June
II is unthinkable that an American
citizen could take this view of bust
ness proposition, and especially IN
view vi the fact that tho ASSOCIATION
arranged to advance 60 per cent Of
the market value of tobacco at 8 per
DNllN anu Ndn III BOSAAiOl " oilON AllaA
tie &C per cent was more than mad
been gotten for the tobacco before
here was an association.
II might be said of the man who is |
Welded to the idea of bringing his to. |
oacco to market in the morning. and |
'arrying his check home at night in |
Jew of the average price every season
-et experienced that uncle Isaac" OF |
Gold Balls fame is still doing bust
ess, advancing money in the spring |
n the winter overcoat, and in the win
er on the whole summer outfit. II is
ways cash.
But what it was desired to impress
pom growers was that cents as of
r 10 years ago was as much as 10 or
cents today, and that by the proper
Import on the part of growers Il
ould be much easier to add 2 cents
the best average price ever obtained
the association than it was to dou-
lie the price in the beginning, and at
per cent interest instead OF per
emit, as was done when it had sale
1ntrol of $4,000 to 10000 hogsheads. |
borrower, the discrimination against
ssoctation tobacco as to time of buy
IL. which would be impossible IL the
isociation had sale control of two
irds of the annual product instead of
lethird, is a money-making PROPOSE
on for the buying interests, since
ey have made the association man {
rrv the tobacco worth approximate {
100000 for six months, thus saw !
z them interest on borrowed monev.
surance, storage, depreciation in !
eight, the deterrent to progress sp- I
ears always to be the cash
The following approximate may '
'ove of interest: The associat c. !
lndled S4S,000,000 of growers mo1ev
elusive of the 1913 crop. Four cents g
as an extreme of the average paid I
IT tobacco by the several reggie coun- q
les and the American Tobacco Gem. q
my, before there was an organic
on, while the average price for a 1
lmber of seasons afterwards was dou-
ed, at times reaching 8 and 10 cent s. I
ne per cent mot one cent? was the G
charged by the associa- G
on on sales, no initiation fees, annual s
les, or assessments. In order to be
'nservative, instead of saving the
creased circulation of money was {
e difference in the aggregate sales d
cents and at cents, suppose we !
~ that one-third of the aggregate e
Mount represents the increased cir 4
llation of money. This would make I
100000. If it made the increase in b
ice for the other two-thirds or the a
man 1t would be $780, I
$1,000, or an aggregate of increased I
rculation of $4S,000,000. The Off &
ais Of this association have gone into
Iery city and village, into every ham b
and vale. traversed every stream n
I'd public road in the dark tobacco "
strict with a purpose of acquainting d
overs with the facts and the seri- h
sness of the situation Tens of D
ousands Of circular letters have v
zen sent to their very firesides, ex- b
aiming facts, as viewed by other
overs. and in the light of expert. n
ice, urging support of an organiza. O
IN. q
The MANAGEMENT has time and again q