Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-03
lover 100000
POUNDS PLEDGED
Growers Hear Gratifying Reports
At Lexington Meeting
Kehoe Here Monday

iSe'NhiS SiC"~o 8 'Oii
Friday, returned greatly pleased
with the prospects. all over the
hurley country.
Madison has made a good show
ing in signing up her production
and it is believed that the IS per
cent required will be obtained
here shortly.
The appearance OF ex-Consress-
man J. n. kehoe, of Maysville.
here Monday is being looked for
ward to with interest. He will
speak at the court house at I
o'clock and give the tobacco pco-
pie something to think about. A
dig crowd will hear him.
AT the Lexington meeting Fri
day it was reported tn; more
than 100000 pounds OF tobacco
,ct as the goal for the two weeks
lrive by the Burnley Tobacco
Irowers' Cooperative Associa-
ion, was secured by the workers.
The exact number of pounds
contracted to the association was
52,OOl ,OS4 Judge Rob ert W.
Bingham chairman Of the organi-
zation committee, made a brief
address, in which he gave credit
Tor what had been done to Vice
Chairman James {. Stone and
he workers, who, he said, had
lone much to put over the biggest
thing for Kentucky i'll long
lime i'll an industrial way.
Judge Bingham told of His re-
cent trip to Europe and of his
study OF the Danish system OF CO.
operative marketing at the selling
end of the line-London. The
Danes would not think Of selling
in any other way, he said. nor
would the English think OF buy
ing in any other way
Judge Bingham told of the
great reconstruction work done
on the farms of France. He said
that i'll his party was his nephew
a young man who had been i'll the
aviation service of the army and
who had flown over some of these
fields and had seen them churncd
up by the shells when all that was
left of the villages was rust and
the chalk sllb-soil SO cut up that ii
seemed impossible that anything
could ever be done with 1t.
He said that the young man
was hardly able to believe his
eyes when he saw what had been
| accomplished by he farmers OF
France in restoring their iands to
fertility. He said he made III
quiry among the people as to how
they had been able to achieve
this miraculous change and had
learned that it was done because
/ we didn't have to worry over mar
keting our products, to use the
, reply of the French villagers and
farmers. He said that they used
the cooperative SYSTEM OF mar
! kcting and had made a success OF
| it.
Judge Bingham said that OH his
return from Europe he had motto
cd i'll New York City a crowd
about a booth on Broadway. In
vestigating, he learned that the
occupants of the booth were sell
ling California orange juice. He
Isaid he remained about the bOotl
with his party for about 20 min
utes and in that time saw SOC
glasses of this orange juice solo
at 10 cents a glass. Scattered
about New York, he said, there
were hundreds of these booth.
land the California Cooperative
Marketing Association sold i,
this way millions of oranges b.
developing a new market fo1
their product. 1t showed the
possibilities of salesnanshi p il
developing "a new demand fol
lproducts, he said.
| Judge Bingham told of Mr.. Sa
lpiros interesting the War Fl
nance Corporation on farm hnan'
ing to aid the cotton and Califor
MIA fruit growers and said he dis
mot think there was the slightes
Idoubt Of its getting behind the to
bacco growers, along with the fee
eral reserve banks, as we'll as al
1.-THE banks in the hurley district.
i There is no question of fnanc
ing the CROP" said Judge Bing
ham. Sixty per cent of the 1922
, crop is close to IS per cent of tn
, crop this year. Never in my lif
have I had more confidence in
: thing going over and going owe
: big than l have in this rrovemen
: and you men who are doing
are doing the biggest thing in
business way that has ever beel