The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-04-01
TOBACCO GROWERS IN
COOPERATIVE MOVE
Hope Seen If Organization;
Marketing Plan Is
Approved.
(Courier-Journal.)

Endorsement of the action Of the
tobacco conference held at The Seel-
bach yesterday in resolutions adopt
ed there and prediction that growers
In all other tobacco-growing States
in the country would regard the plan
as q decided step forward in obtaining
national cooperative marketing, were
voiced yesterday afternoon by repre-
sentatives of various State organiza-
Jns.
NJ. o. Wilson, Katesville, Va,
chairman of the Tobacco Growers CO.
operative Association. with a men,
bership including growers of Virgin
ia, North and South Carolina, said:
This has been one of the greatest
meetings, perhaps the greatest meet
ing in the history of tn industry. The
message that will carry back to
the growers of Virginia and the mem
bers OF my association will be that
Kentucky is on the threshold of form
- ing a solid organization for co7opera-
tive marketing of its product, and
that the spirit of the meeting was
such that we may expect the spread
of this movement to every other State
within few months"
Encouraged by Resolution.
c. H. Gustafson, president Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
and chairman of the Grain Market
ing Committee of Seventeen, said; at
IS, such meetings as this which ulti-
mately will bring about the complete
coordination of>the tobacco industry
The resolution adopted should do
much to encourage the movement
turnout the United States"
The conclusion reached by this
me ting will put new spirit into the
growers of North Carolina" b. r.
Brown. head OF the Bureau of Mar
kets of North Carolina. declared. 1T
will assure them that their efforts to
get square deal for the farmer are
to be backed to the fullest extent by
growers OF Kentucky, and other
States where the industry is not or
ganized at present"
IF. Hedges, representative OF the
Ohio Tobacco Growers Association.
said:
1.-THE growers of Ohio have been
contemplating a movement for COOP
Grating for some months, but they
deferred action until the result OF
this meeting in Louisville could be
learned
Other States to Follow.
81 shall tell the association that
the plan which has been adopted by
Virginia and the Carolinas will be
adopted soon in Kentucky; that the
growers here regard ii as the best
that has been offered, and that the
plan promises the speediest solution
to disastrs that confront the unor-
ganized farmer. l do not hesitate
TO say that similar action may be ex-
pected in Ohio when the result OF
this national conference is known"
1.-THE Burley Tobacco Growers AS
ISOLATION, with members in Kentucky
Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio and West
Virginia, is behind the plan advocat-
ed by Aaron Sapiro and is ready to
throw the full weight of its influence
behind any movement that promises
cooperative marketing as State or
as a national scheme" John w. New
man, president of the association, de-
.clared at the meeting and again at
its conclusion.
C.N. Fuller, secretary of the Wis
.consin Tobacco Growers Association
said:.
"The growers in Wisconsin have
tried a plan almost exactly similar to
that presented by Mr.. sapiro and have
found it successful. ! see no reason
why IL should not work in Kentucky
as well as it has in my own State.
likewise. II should be feasible ma
tionally and work to greatest bene-
fit in that field. The farmers-of WIS
consin. am sure, will regard IA
vorably the-action of the conference
today, indorsing the principles iaid
down by Mr.. Sapiro.'
Only Hope of Grower.
q. ID. Giyens. a grower of Hender-
son, said; "The plan presented by
MIR. sapiro, supplemented by the ac-
ton of the conference is the only hope
of the grower. 1t has my hearty
support"
Felix c. Ewing, Cedar HILL Tenn