Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-05-27

same victory which had been won
in California.
California has poorer crops.
crops that arc not universally us
cd or needed, while Kentucky
raises a commodity that is uni
versal in its use, but California
has all idea which i'll 1920-2l en-
abled four out of five of its farm
crs to make money, while ;>en-
/ tucky tobacco growers were los
ing money" Mr.. Sapiro, vino IS
counsel for group of California
cooperative marketing orgaI,iza
tions, said in his address.
He explained the California Co
operative marketing plan, which
is being adapted to the tobacco N
dustry.
Mr.. Sapiro also told the grow
| erS that while it was the desire to
incorporate the organization IN
Kentucky, the heart of the burleyI
tobacco growing industry, that
unless the Kentucky laws regard
ing cooperative marketing or
ganizations were amended il
would be Incorporated in Ncr:;a
Carolina.
He said that bill amending the
Kentucky law, which forbids
pools, had been prepared and will
be ready for present alton 10 the !
next session of the Kentucky leg
islature.
The California plan, Mr., Sapiro |
said, had been adapted to the han
ding of p farm products, raised
by $4,000 farmers and worth in
aggregate, $250.OOO,0O0 annually.
He then told of the adaptations
necessary to make it effective in
tobacco. He characterized the
plan as the farmers adopting mer
chandising methods instead of
dumping their crops on the mar !
ket.
The speaker asserted that .hc
tobacco grower alone was respCr
sible for the breaking OF i,r-.ce, OF
tobacco. There is no reason. he
asserted, why the entire ,cropt
should be dumped on the market
within a few weeks. He charac-
terized the present method of |
marketing tobacco through the /
auction system, whereby the buy
er bids in tobacco at the rate OF /
four baskets to the minute. as the
most amatcurish followed in the
marketing of any farm product.
The grower. he asserted. has no
idea of hoW the price is fixed or
what it will be.
The planned organization will
only be completed if contracts
binding growers Of IS per cent
OF the hurley tobacco grown III
the country agree to sell only thru
the cooperative organization for
a period Of ) years. he said. Then
he industry will be divided into p
districts, each containing as near
ly as possible one twcnty-sccond
part of the entire crop.
The growers each will elect del
cgates at the rate of one to about
million pounds Of tobacco and
these i'll turn will meet and elect
p directors. all of whom must be
growers. The other directors
would be named probably by the
governors of the states in which
the tobacco is grown, to represent
the public.
The warehouseinen, he said,
will not lose ;hin9. Their plants
will be leased or bought to handle
the tobacco and the expert grad
ers now employed by the ware
housemen empioyed to grade the
tobacco for the growers and pre-
pare it for market. The tobacco
would be handled in such way |
that the crop would be sold only |
as the market could absorb it al
a living price, he added.
The contracts under which the |
growers would pledge their to-
bacco to the cooperative organ
ization arc binding and the courts i
have upheld them, Mr.. Sapiro
said. He asserted that in four |
teen cases cooperative organiza-
tons had forced "welching' grow |
ers to deliver their crops.
The proposed organization, hci
said, would have no capital stock
and would pay no dividends. The
crop would be marketed over the
entire world wherever there was
demand, and the best available
talent would De employed i'll the
work.
In telling OF the movement as
whole, Mr.. Sapiro said that it
it was planned to form separate
organizations Ct the growers Of
hurley tobacco. the dark tobacco
growers of Western Kentucky, /
and the growers of brioht and