The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-01-26
ALL SOCIETIES
MADE into ONE
Farmers Form a New Or.
ganization
FOR MARKETING OF TOBACCO
Farmers Tobacco ASSOc1a'
ti0n" Is to Be Formed
on February 2.
WERE IMpELLED INTO ACTION

y
The Greensboro Messenger of Sum
day says:
All existing tobacco organizations
were declared to be out of existence
and a new organization of farmers
created Saturday afternoon at the
court house. The Green River Asso-
citation, one of the oldest of the Or
CARNATIONS, and the one that has
maintained itself through all the
various troubles that these institu-
lions have passed through recently,
had called district meeting.
President w. G.. Riney called the
session to order. He Immediately
recognized Henry S. Berry, who Of
fered the following resolutions for
consideration:
Whereas, the tobacco growers of
the Green River section, being to-
tally unorganized, are experiencing
conditions that, if not remedied,
will result in bankruptcy to the
growers and general decline in all
farm values:
'It was with a general feeling of
skepticism that we were forced to
accept the loose leaf floor system of
1n Inc
seasons all other ways of selling to-
bacco have been abandoned. The
loose leaf system has been weighed
and found wofully wanting. In the
first place, practically all Of the
Green River district has been forced
to come to greensboro, thereby Gre
ating a great congestion. The loose
leaf floors are crowded from day to
day. Tobacco almost without ex-
ception, is selling at price below
the cost If production. The cost OF
selling, which the farmer must pay,
is enormous. 1t now takes at least
Me week from the time the farmer
pGss his tobacco on the wagon at
home, until he gets his check. Or
ten during this delay, the farmers
tobacco damages in the basket OH
y Ne loose leaf floor, thereby causing
. il to sell at lower price on account
of damage, caused by the slow pro-
cess of the loose leaf floor. Prac-
tically all of the outlying receiving
points are closed and these farmers
are confronted with an enormous ex-
pense in marketing their tobacco.
These conditions have become I'M
bearable. Tobacco growing has be-
come improbable. A cry has gone
ND over the land for relief, and that
the tobacco growers get together in
one compact organization. There
fore be it
Resolved, That approaching our
HELPLESS, unorganized condition. and
appreciating the fact that battling
singly We are helpless, but organized
into one body We are all powerful,
fact appreciated by the buying end;
Therefore. be it the sense Of this
body that We ask that all the old
associations disband, terminate their
existence as tobacco organizations,
and let us turn this meeting into
a mass meeting of tobacco growers.
Let us proceed to organize, to elect
a temporary chairman and take
steps to form a new organization for
the handling of the tobacco grown in
the Green River district"
Short discussion of Mr.. Berry's
resolution was had by various per-
sons present, when 1t was adopted
nv a rising vote. For temporary
chairman, Henry s. Berry was
named and elected by the large num-
her of farmers present.
Numerous names of men were sug-
sested for temporary secretary. all
~ whom declined to serve. There
n was a general tendency on the part
N oefHSpne connected with any of the
Esh of y>rganisations to keep away
embankmeyoaice. The name of 8. B.
the alrf putin nomination. He also
x,e,saSsd at hrst. He had at one time
IN menbsr of the A. s. of e.. q
.~mer se(HofAyy of the Green River
subss 1tiy In the employ of
= Ameri1 Tobacco Company.
railing cure q secretary Mr..
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