The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-06

weeks drive OF the Buriey Tobacco
Growers COOPERATIVE Association,
was secured by the workers, accord
ing to the reports from the counties
in which organization has been
started, made at meeting of coun-
ty chairmen in the Phoenix Hotel,
Lexington, last Friday.
The exact number of pounds con-
tracted to the association was ST.
001,6S4. Judge Robert w. Bingham,
chairman of the organization com
mittee, made a brief address, in
which he gave credit for what had
been done to Vice Chairman James
c. Stone and the workers, who, he
said, had done much to put over the
biggest thing for Kentucky in long
time in an industrial way. In only
few of the counties reorting has
there been any intensive campaign
and number of counties still are
unorganized, it was said, particu-
larry those in Ohio, Indiana and
West Virginia.
Judge Bingham told of his recent
trip to Europe and of his, study of
the Danish system of cooperative
marketing at the selling end of the
line-London. "The Danes would not
think of selling in any Other way"
he said, "Nor would tho English
think of buying in anv other way"
Judge Bingham tod of the great
reconstruction work done on the
farms of France. He said that in
his artv was his nephew "a young
man who had been in the aviation
service of the army and who had
Town over some of these very fields
and had seen them churned up by
the shells when all that was left of
the villages was rust and the chalk |
sub-soil so cut up it seemed impos-
sible that anything could ever be
done with it,
He said the young man was hard
ly afle to believe his eyes when he
saw what had been accomplished by |
the farmers of France in restoring
their lands to fertility. He said he
made inquiry among the people as
to how thew had been able to achieve
this miraculous change and had
learned that it was done because
eve didn't have to worry over the
of our products" to use
the reply of the French villagers
and farmers. He said that they used
the cooperative system of market
ing and had made success of it.
Judge Bingham said that on his
return from Europe he had noticed
n New York city crowd about
booth on Broadway Investigating,
he learned that the occupants of the
booth were selling California orange
iuice He said he remained about
fhe booth with his party for about
20 minutes and in that time saw
500 glasses of this orange Juice sold
Mt 10 cents n glass. Scattered about
New York. he said. there were hun-
1reds of these booths and the Cali
fonia Co-Onerative Marketing AS
ISOLATION sold in this way millions
Of oranges bv developing a new mar
Ilet for their product 1t showed
The possibilities of salesmanship in
developing q new demand for prod
nets. he said.
Judge Bingham told of Mr. Sa-
Diro's interesting the War Finance
on farm financing to
aid the cotton and California Fruit
yrowers and said he did not think
here was the slightest doubt of its
retting behind the tobacco growers,
along with the federal reserve banks.
rs well as all the banks in the Bur-
ey district.
"There is no question of financing
he CROP" said Judge Bingham.
Sixty per cent of the 1920 crop is
lose to 50 per cent of the crop this
year. Never in my life have | had
more confidence in a thing going
,ver and going over big than have
iad and now have in this movement.
md YOU men who are doing il pro
LONG the biggest thing in hnsi
ness wav that has ever been done
or Kentucky"
Others who spoke of the meeting
we're Vice Chairman Store: Sam p.
lark. of Courbon; John r. Crockett.
# Bath. Robert s. Wolker. of Wood
ord; Clark b. Peterson, Montgom-
nv: Buford f. Allen and Chas. NJ
Favette: John Bell, Bour-
,on. Ralnh NJ Barker. Of Carrollton.
Mr. Stone said that Judge Bing-
lam had made possible the move
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