The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1921-07-28
ESTABLISHED 1894
TOBACCO GROWERS
WILL FIN PRICES.
Resolution Urges Growers to Offer
Only Better Grades and to- Fix
Minimum Figures.

anu 10 TIN
Minimum Figures.
Florence, July 22-Definite action
as to what is best to be done to OBJ
tain relief from the situation created
by low priced tobacco will be deter
mined at the meeting of the Tobacco
Growers association of South Caro-
lima in Florence Friday, July 90. The
Warehousemen's association was ask
, ed by the indignation mass meeting
here today to meet q committee from
the growers organization Saturday
fer the purpose of fixing minimum
price at which tobacco will be per-
mitted to Sell in this state. 1t was
admitted that nothing was to be gain
ed by demanding better prices and
that control of the crop by the farm
ers themselves in the acreage and
matter of marketing was the only
avenue of relief. Farmers are urg-
ed in resolutions adopted to offer
only the better grades, we'll cleaned
and picked. and not to bring any to-
bacco sFhatever to market until af-
ter the meeting here next Friday
when definite steps as to price will be
taken for their guidance.
Speakers urged today that tobacco
selling for two and three cents a
pound was worth more as fertilizer.
There were probably 100 present
representing all lines of business, and
while the meeting opened slow it de-
reloped into pyrotechnical display
later on. Some delegations from sur
rounding counties brought in reports
OF such bad feeling in some sections
against the present low prices as to
give rise to apprehension as to what
might happen in some localities un-
less the people were brought to an
understanding of all conditions. Dis
cussion today was frank and free
Nearly all of the principal markets
were represented. Some telegraphed
they were water bound. E. c. Epps,
Il banker of Kingstree, offered the
following resolutions and they were
adopted:
Whereas citizens representing va
rious tobacco markets in South Caro-
lima, called together in mass meeting
by the secretary of the tobacco asso-
citation by request of certain local
markets for the purpose of discussing &
the prevailing conditions of the pres
ent markets and the prices offered
thereon, after due deliberations and
thought, do hereby resolve and
recommend the following suggestions
as the only practical means and
methods whereby more uniform and
more satisfactory prices may be OBJ
tanned.
First: We recommend that farm
ers devote their best efforts towards
harvesting and curing only better
grades of tobacco and that the same
be cleaned and picked before being
offered for sale on the warehouse
floors.
Second: That all such tobacco re-
ceiving bids less than the price to be
determined next Friday, to be with
held from sale and be used as fer
tiliZer upon the farm on which
grown.
Third: We recommend that the
warehousemen OF the state refrain
from bidding upon offers for sale un-
less at least one bid is made by an
authorized buyer not engaged in OF
III any way connected with the ware
house business.
Fourth: That all tobaccos offered
i foI sale that do not bring at least
Tihe fixed price be passed by the
warehousemn and returned TO the
producer.
Fifth: That the Warehousemen' 5
association be and is hereby request
I'll call meeting of all warehouse
men in South Carolina in Florence
Saturday, July 80, and at this time
the said association together with
a committee, which will be appoint
ed from the growers association
which meets in Florence Friday, July
90, will fix a minimum price at which
any tobacco will be permitted to
sell in this state. That it is the sense
of this meeting that the farmers
throughout the state be encouraged
t.as far as possible to withhold sales
of tobacco from the warehouse floors
until after the meeting of the State
Growers Association next Friday and
the meeting of the Tobacco Ware
housemen's association on Saturday,
July 20 and 80, respectively"