Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-12-24
|SAPIRO PLEASED WITH
TOBACCO PROSPECTS

Trade some interesting things in
a speech he made them the other
day. Sapiro talked about the
Rurley Association and its pros
poets and future and said a lot
CT things that every tobacco man
will be glad to read.
Mr.. Sapiro repeatedly cmpha
sized the fact that the co-epcra-
tive plan merely involved the APP
pEcation of efficient methods OF
business to the usual slovenly
-methods OF agriculture. He de-
tailed every phase of the move
ment and its aims. and gave nu-
merous examples OF inestimable
benefits derived by many commu-
mites in the West as a result OF
the cooperative market ng plan.
Outstanding declarations BY
Sapiro were:
By January Is the co-opera-
tive hurley marketing movement
will be the biggest single bust
ness in Kentucky.
\ total of 100 warehouses are
to be taken over and paid for
within five years. at prices fair
to the warehouse interests.
All financing problems have
been settled and all the money
needed is already within sight.
The movement is the first step
to destroy speculation and pin
hooking" in Kentucky tobacco.
Growers will obtain a real
Price without effect upon the Ill
tlmate price to the nonsumer.
There will be no monopoly ol
tobacco supply. but all interests
will be given opportunity at the
fair level OF prices already es-
tablished by the buyers i'll pur-
chasing uhpoo,ed tobacco.
The big manufacturers have
given assurance they will buy
from the association and that
they will he taught lesson in
ccrromy by the associations -.
ing for them the expense IT 4
great corps of buyers.
agriculture" said Mr.. Sapiro.
IS the largest and most import
art industry i'll the United State
and it has beenpermitted to b.,
the most backward in organi;:d-
ton and returns to the producer.
That's .hy we have the NOV c
ment from the farm to the city.
the tendency to tcnantcy. and
that's why we have degradation
OF standards OF living on farms
in kentucky"
Saying that the farmers have
begun to realize that their indus
try is the one great disorganized
industry in the country. Mr.. Sa-
piro pointed out results already
obtained by farmers by applica
tion of principles OF business to
problems of farming.
Necessity forced the Califor
mia farmers to cooperate. lie
said. "\Vhen it started i'll lS9l
81 per cent of farmers were ac-
tually losing money on every
crop produced. They followed
the plan of the Denmark system
of cooperative marketing and
for twelve years nothing biit
failure resulted. But they even
tually learned the technique OF
the system necessary to make
farming a financial success. As
a result. four OF every five Cal
iornia farmers actually made
money last year. while four out
Of every FIVE farmers in the Unit
rd States lost money. The Cal
ifornia farmers did this in spite
IF inferior crops. adverse ire ght
rates and their far removal from
heir markets.
''Tne growers learned to mcr
:handise their agricultural pro-
1ucts. instead of dumping them. !
Your 65OC0 hurley tobacco. grow
ers are just SO many little farm
factories. but when they throw !
pounds of tobacco on
/ market capable of absorbing
,nly 100000 pounds, there is
10 wonder that growers actually
lave been giving away their to-
,acco. No business man woull
operate with such unthinkablc
PRACTICES"
Mr.. Sapiro pointed out that
ne association will represent an
Internal pool. Tobacco pooled
will be graded and every grower
viii get the same as every other
or identical quality and quaint
y. The Kentucky Association.
&c declared. is reaching out for
he men best qualified for its va
ious functions. and is starting III
large. substantial way. !,