The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-01-07
SALES OF TOBACCO
TO Be SUSPENDED
Growers Seek The Closing
OF All Loose Leaf
Warehouses.

Lexington, KY, Jan. AT a meet
ing of representative bankers held'
here tonight assurance was given
Burley tobacco growers that the
bankers stood ready to render any
reasonable aid in the present tobacco
sales crisis. The conference was
participated in by number of the
city's leading warehousemen.
A definite program will be formu-
lated at a further conference to be
held Friday afternoon, 1t was an
, nounced. In. the meantime Lexing-
ton bankers intend to request Louis
vile and Cincinnati bankers to help
solve the problem and to use their in
fluence in prevailing upon warehouse
men in those cities not to market any
more Burley tobacco until May 10, to
which date the more radical leaders
among the growers would postpone
sales. This would have the effect
of stabilizing prices, it was said, and
placing all of the markets on the
same footing when sales are resumed.
If individual growers undertook to
sell independently before that date
the proposed general suspension of
Burley sales would fail of the effect
intended and complicate the situation
especially in view of the proposed
"cut-out."
Lexington, Ky, Jan. 4.-Farmers
were hauling their tobacco away from
warehouses and storing it in barns
and practically every market of i'm
portance in the Central Kentucky to-
bacco region was closed tonight in
protest against low prices offered by
buyers for this years crop. The Lex
ington market was first closed until
tomorrow, while a later announce
ment set January IL as the date for
reopening. Indications were that
other markets would follow the lead
of Lexington.
ested in the tobacco crop would not
venture a prediction as to what the
outcome of the situation would be
but they indicated they were ready
for almost anything.
Principal developments of the day
were:
The Lexington loosesleaf market,
the largest in the world, closed an
hour after the opening this morning
with the announcement that it would
reopen tomorrow.
Buyers Are Threatened.
The Tobacco Warehousemen's As
ISOLATION, thru Ben Bosworth, super
visor of sales, this afternoon an
nounced that the local market would
not reopen until Tuesday, January IL,
at the earliest.
Delegations from various important
markets in the, district visited the
Burley Tobacco Growers Association
office here and announced that other
places would follow the lead of the
Lexington.
Farmers mass-meetings in some
counties decided to hold the 1920
crop and cut the 1921 crops. Farmers
began hauling their tobacco out of
the Lexington warehouses, in which
there were about 100000 pounds,
when the sales started yesterday
morning. Buyers of tobacco were
threatened by irate farmers at Car
Isle.
Bankers and warehousemen to
meet here Friday to decide on ways
and means of financing growers who
do not want to sell.
Mass-meeting of tobacco growers
from all parts of the Burley district
called for Friday, January Z, at Lex
ington for the purpose of providing
ways and means of handling the 1920
crop and to arrange for curtailment
of the 1921 crop.
Many Markets Close.
The Lexington market opened Mon
day with growers from all parts of
the state watching the sales to get a
line on prices to be paid. No action
was taken toward stopping the sales
pending opening of the other import
ant markets at Mount Sterling, Car
Isle, Paris, Danville, Winchester,
Maysville and Covington as growers
said they hoped that indications at