Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-14

BILE what you estimate the cost of get
ting members will be. If you figure
the cost as SIS per person to get mem
bers into the association. then vol
make the entrance fee double that, be-
cause the cost will always be little
larger than you contemplate at the
start. These things are established
above and not below the contemplated
cost
So you will have an entrance fee
say. of SO. or whatever figure you
may determine. You will arrange tc
divide the State into twenty districts
according to the sign-up from each
district, having each one represent ap
proximately one-twentieth of the sign
up without dividing counties. and
have each elect its own director. One
director is appointed by the Govern,
ment, or by some body representing
the public interest in the tobacco as
ISOLATION. Then you have an Execu.
tive Committee of five appointed by
the board. Then you arrange that the
association shall have full power to
carry out certain marketing contracts
with the growers. These contracts
will provide that for five years each
grower shall deliver to the association
all the hurley tobacco that he pro.
duces. The association will grade it,
sell it and assign to the grower his
net proportion of the proceeds. That
would be the key to the contract. The
contract provides that if a grower
hesitates about keeping contract
you can go to the court and get an
injunction preventing delivery to some
one else, ordering him to deliver to
you and compelling him to pay the
costs. 1t is very effective contract
as far as the association and grower
are concerned. That is the plan in a
nutshell.
Then it is contemplated that the
association shall do the usual things
in grading and merchandising tobac-
co. 1t will have absolutely full power
to borrow money for financing the
association and to undertake any
method for extending the markets and
getting a fair price for tobacco over a
term of years. That is contemplated
in the plan.
The Bright Tobacco Group.
Some of you ask for a copy of the
plan signed up in Virginia and South
Carolina and North Carolina l have
some booklets containing that plan
don't advocate an exact copy. That
gives the plan as best adapted to the
bright tobacco districts. It IS prima-
rily for the bright tobacco, although
some men think it will include the
sun-cured because of the fact that
sun-cured tobacco is practically in
separable from bright tobacco units
in Virginia. But it is primarily for
the bright tobacco group. Then there
is clause under which they can CO.
ordinate their own group with any
other association in the country.
This association, starting in Vir-
GINA and the Carolinas, is headed in
the various States by a committee
named in the agreement. When you
see the names there you will see men
who correspond in those groups to
yourselves in the State of Kentucky
the real leaders in those communities,
not merely men who are the biggest
and most successful growers. In
North Carolina you have men like
Clarence Poe, who from an intellec-
tual standpoint is the best agricul-
tural leader in North Carolina; l.. S.
Tomilson, B. w. kilgore, a canny and
ideal director of extension. In Vir-
ginia you have J. r. Hutchinson, the
vigorous director of extension; NJ. o.
Wilson, fine grower and thinker,
and in South Carolina, Bright Will
hanson, an unusually brainy business
man, also W. w. Long of Clemson
College, the able director of extension.
Those are the intellectual leaders and
the Trainer leaders who are concerned
in this same plan in Virginia and the
two Carolinas.
Now, that plan cannot be adopted
bodily for Kentucky, but you can
adapt it and the so-called California
idea to the hurley situation and make
a plan which is satisfactory.
How to Get Storage.
\ MEMBER-How are we going to
get money to get the warehouses and
plants?
MIR. SAPIRO-An association of this
type will have to have plants-first
for storage and second for redry
ing and prizing, and perhaps other
plants for other purposes. That brings
up the question of the physical facil
tiles. When you approach this prob
lem you can do one of two things
either approach it from what 1 call
a radical viewpoint or approach it
from a conservative viewpoint. 1 am
going to show the method of financ-
ing, which is now the method most
in the West.
You will remember l told you that |
prunes drop from trees. They have |
under the trees, on the ground.
They let them lie there until the sun |
absorbS most of the moisture and then |
they are ready for the packing houses. |
They need real sterilization, grading |
and packing. The plants are pretty ex-
pensive, running from 100000 for a |
little plant to quarter million for |
a large plant. If in addition you put |
in, as we have in some instances, can |
ming facilities, it runs into a very |
large expense.
When we started out the associa. |
ton had to have places to take care
Of approximately as per cent of the |
prunes of California. That meant it |
would have to take care of some
where between a hundred and twenty |
and hundred and fifty million pounds |
Of prunes right off. We got together
of the various packers in the |
State and arranged with them for user
contracts. We told them one of two
things would happen-they would
have to give us the use of their
plants, we paying them fair amount,
Or we would interest the citizens III |
the district and put up plants and
make their plants useless. We had
the prunes already tied up under con-
tract and their plants were not good
for anything else. They saw the light.
We made contracts with forty-two
firms. They agreed to take our prunes
and pack as we ordered and so on
Turing this period.
In that user contrcat we put in one
clause under which We had an option
70 buy those plants in any single dis
.rict. We didn't have to buy at once;
out in any district we could get busy
and buy the plant at value to be
liked by appraisal.
l will now explain the so-called
plan of finance, which will
apply to any kind of physical facilities
you contemplate. 1 will not explain 1t
n reference to California alone, be-