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

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-Con9rcss-
man J. \. kehoc. Of Maysvillc
here Monday is being looked for
ward to with interest. He will
speak at the court house at Z
, clock and give the tobacco pco-
pic something to think about. A
Dig crowd will hear him.
At the Lexington meeting Fri
lay it was reported tn; : more
,han 5O,OCOOOO pounds OF tobacco
ct as the goal for the two weeks
lrive by the Burley Tobacco
irowcrs' Cooperative Asaocia
ion. was secured by the workers.
The exact NUM- Der of pounds
contracted to the association was
52,OOl .OS4. Judge Rob ert W.
Bingham chairman OF the organi
:ation committee, made d brief
address, i'll which he gave credit
Tor what had been done to Vice
Chairman amcs {. Stone and
he workers. who, he said. had
lone much to put over the biggest
ching for Kentucky i'll a long
lime in an industrial way.
Judge Bingham told of his re-
cent trip to Europe and Of his
study of the Danish system ol CO.
operative marketing at the selling
end OF the linc-London "Tll,
Danes would not think Of selling
in any other way. he said. nor
would the English think OF buy
ing i'll 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 anG
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 oi
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 "bccausc
VIC didn't have to worry over maj
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 d success oi
it.
Judge Bingham said that on his
return from Europe he had motto
ed i'll New York City a crowd
about a booth on Broadway. III
vestigating. he learned that the
occupants of the booth were sell
ing California orange juice. He
said 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 Il glass. Scattered
about New York, he said, there
were hundreds Of these booth.
and the California Cooperative
Marketing Association sold i,
this way millions of oranges b,
developing a new market fo
their product. 1t showed tn.
possibilities of salesnanshi p il
developing new demand TO
products, he said.
Judge Bingham told of Mr. Sa
piro's interesting the War Fl
nance Corporation on farm hnan'
ing to aid the cotton and Califor
MIA fruit growers and said he dit
mot think there was the slightes
|doubt Of it's getting behind the to
bacco growers, along with the fe,
eral reserve banks, as we'll as al
1.-THE banks i'll the hurley district.
"There is no question of financ
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 l had more confidence in
thing going over and going owe
big than l have in this n1ovemen
. and you men who are doing i
are doing the biggest thing in
business way that has ever beer