Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-22
CANTRILL SAYS KEEP
Low GRADES AT Home
When Tobacco Markets Open and
He Believes Growers VIII
Get Out" on High Grades

ol SCOtt county, who IS recOSn1Z-
ed throughout the state and ma
ton and one of the best friends
the tobacco growers ever had
urges tobacco growers to keep
their low grades off the market
when the warehouses open. IN
this way he believes that they
will realize as much for Their high
grades as they would for all their
tobacco together, if they dump
the low grades on the breaks al
the start.
Mr.. Cantrill is big tobacco
grower himself on his Scott cOun-
ty farm, and he always knows
what he talks about when he men
tions tobacco. He came home
from Washington the other day
to look over the situation, and be-
fore leaving gave the growers
some good advice.
MIR. Cantrill has devoted some
time to personal investigation of
the reports that the tobacco crop
is much higher than last years,
with the result that he has come
to the conclusion, he said, that not
more than three million pounds
had been grown this year, and of
this third is of low grade.
Mr.. Cantrill urged the necessity
of organization of all the growers
not only in the Burley Tobacco
Association, of which J. w. New
man is the head, but in the Far
mers' Union, local unions of which
are in nearly every county. Mr..
Cantrill said it was the duty and
would be greatly to the benefit OF
the farmers to strengthen their To-
cal organizations by joining these
farmers unions as well as uniting
i'll general organization such as
the new association.
''When | came to Kentucky two
weeks ago said the Congress
man, 81 will admit9that | was not
greatly encouraged over the out
look for prices this fall, but after
careful and painstaking investi-
CATION, which has included my
own tobacco. in Scott county and
some of my neighbors in practic-
ally all the big counties in Cen
tral Kentucky | am convinced
that the yield this year i'll weight
will not exceed the ability of the
market to handle, @nless the low
grades should be dumped on the
market, in which case the entire
price fabric will totter. For that
reason, it is necessary for the
growers to organize to keep this
low grade off the market. The
manufacturers and buyers of Eu
rOpean trade are overStocked with
that tobacco, 1t actually will not
pay for the expense of stripping
and hauling it if offered in con-
nection with the better leaf and
can only have the effect of de
moralizing the entire market. The
growers will suffer no loss, but
rather gain largely by holding
these low grades at home.
Europe usually takes this to-
bacco off our hands, but just now
Europe is not able to pay the in
terest on her debts, and since
there is no demand from that
source and American manufactur-
ers are overstocke, with that
class of leaf, it would not pay to
strip and haul this kind of tobac-
CO to market. 1t would be no
sacrifice to the grower to hold it
off the market and redry it. If it
is held off the market, and held
generally, that means that not
over two hundred million pounds
will be marketed and that the
growers will get a good pc: for
it, for the manufacturers will not
hesitate to buy at COOL prices II
that amount of tobacco is offered.
for that amount will be needed by
them.
"If Kentucky has to return at
any time in the future to the old
schedule Of prices, it will mean
the loss of their farms to many of
the growers and the loss of many
of the comforts that our children
in the hurley belt have enjoyed
for the past eight or ten years in
prices. | want to urge all the
farmers to get together for the
beneft,of themselves and for the
benefit Of all. They had just as
we'll throw their low grade leaf on
the ground as to bring it to mar
ket. The profit will be about tho
same. The only way to make such
movement to hold off these low
grades a success is to organize
and for all who are interested in
the tobacco growers, business
men and the press included, to,
impress upon the growers the inn