The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-01-05
TOBACCO HAULED
BACK TO STORAGE:
armers Take Crop From Kentucky
,.s Barns
CLOSE FOR MARKETS
.otest Registered by Growers
Against Against Low Prices
s$ Offered by Buyers.


we're hauling their tobacco away from
Warehouses and storing it in barns
and practically every market of i'm
. Sportance in the central Kentucky to-
btcco region was closed tonight in
protest against low prices offered by
} buyers for this years crop. The
Lexington market was first closed
until tomorrow, while later announce
ment set January II as the date for
reopening. Indications we're that 9TH
er markets would follow the lead Of
Lexington.
Growers, buyers and others inter-
ested in the tobacco crop would not
venture a prediction as to what the
outcome of the situation would be
but indicated they were ready for al
most anything.
Principal developments Of the day
we're:
The Lexington loose leaf market,
the largest in the world, closed 'an
"h5ur after the opening this morning
With tho announcement that it would
reopen tomorrow.
Not Open for Time
The tobacco warchousemen's asso-
cation, through Ben Bosworth, su-
pervisor of sales, this afternoon an
nounccd that the local market would
qnot reopen until Tuesday, January II,
' 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 Lex
ngton.
Farmers mass meetings in some
counties decided to hold the 1920 crop
and cut the 1921 crop. Farmers be-
hn)llI1tr fnn # Nf flnI
Lexington warehouses in which there
were about 100000 pounds when the
fsales started yesterday morning.
RnverS of tobacco were threatened
by iratc growers at Carlisle.
Bankers and Warehousemen are to
meet here Friday to decide on wavs
and means Of financing growers who
90 not want to sell.
Mass meeting of. growers from all
parts of the Burey district called for
Friday, January 7, at Lexington for
the purpose of providing ways and
means of handling the 1920 crop and
20 arrange for curtailing the 1921
crop.
The Lexington market opened with
grEWers from all parts of this state
watching the sales to get a line on
! prices to be paid. No action was
taken towards stopping sales pending
opening of the other important mar
kets at Mount Sterling, Carlisle, Paris
Danville, Winchester, Maysville and
Covington, as growers said they hop
ed that Indications at those markets
would be for higher prices.
, g Temper; None TOO Goodo
{ she temper of growers, however,
3 none too good this morning and
.'hen prices offered were even lower
tnp fhn 7 L.
was closed. Soon afterward Mount
Sterling, Winchester and other mar
'kets closed Soon afterwards Mount
Sterling, Winchester and other mar.
kets closed, reports being that cessa-
tion of trading at Carlisle and Mays
vile was due to the threatening at
titude of growers toward buyers.
at Paris this afternoon several
hundred growers from Bourbon
county voted unanimously to hold the
1890 crop and cut out the 1921 crop.
, Similar action was taken at Maysville.
Delegation from three counties
came to Lexington today and after
conference with growers from Fay-
cite county, issued the following call
for meeting in Lexington next Fri
: day,
"ro the Burley Tobacco Growers,
Warehousemcn and other Parties In
terested in the Tobacco Situation in
Central Kentucky and Elsewhere:
; You are requested to meet at your
county seats on Thursday, January
8, at p. M, for the purpose of Sc
lecting delegates toSattend a meet
ing to be held in the city Of Lexing-
ton, Friday, January 7, at 10 a. M,
y to, provide ways and means for the
handling of the present crop of to-
bacco as well as to make arrange
ments for. cutting out of the 1921
crop of tobacco"
The federal reserve bank at Cleve-
%sand was asked to send a representa-
tive, to the meeting.
Chicago, Jan. A tobacco ex-
change system modelled largely on
the line of the grain exchange sys-
item and it's practice of trading in
future, would go far to remedy the
,,unsatisfactory condition now exist
ing in the hurley tobacco field, ac-
cording to John R. Mauff, secretary
of the Chocago Board of Trade.
"The highly organized grain mar
4 keting system provides an instan-
,taneous market the year round" said
4 VA. Mauf today. "The buyers and
a fhe sellers of the world are at all
times in touch and the result is q
stabilization of prices, a narrowing
of fluctuations and other points
! which accrue in an open market
where untrammelled competition as
\ sures prices based absolutely in the
Flaw of supply and demand. Before
the grain exchange system was de-