Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-05
LEAF SITUATION
is SERIOUS IN KY.
Growers Cabinet Formed
and Burnley Taken OFF Market.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Jan. 5.-Every
white hurley tobacco market In central
Kentucky had announced total suspension
OF sales last night, according TO re-
ports received by a Growers Cabinet"
which convened spontaneously at the
Lafayette Hotel Tuesday afternoon.
After sales in other counties had been
closed the largest loose leaf market in
the world in Lexington shut down ana
central Kentucky was brought TO face
probably the greatest crisis ever pre-
sented to the farmers.
After mass meetings in Mt. Sterling
OvingsviIle and Winchester, four dele
gates from each gathering of farmers
were dispatched in haste to Lexington,
where they met with Fayette lear
growers.
Charles Land of Fayette County, John
". Newman. president of the General
Association of Burley Tobacco Growers OF
Kentucky and Of the adjoining counties
of Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, and I.
B. Hill Of Mt. Sterling. secretary Of the
Growers Association, also were present
representing their organizations. The ac-
ton, however, was not through the
agency of any particular organization.
SITUATION Is
REPORTED SERIOUS.
No attempt was made 70 minimize the
seriousness OF the situation at the end
of the session. The following program
was announced:
Thursday mass meeting Of farmers VIII
be conducted in every hurley tobacco
GROWN county IN the entire white
belt" at which delegates viii be chosen
for a general convention.
Friday morning at 10 o'clock a con-
vention of delegates from the hurley
ho oT in
ington at which a decision in regard TO
the disposal of the crop will be made.
Friday afternoon there will he con.
ference Of bankers and warehousemen OF
Kentucky in Lexington, to receive re-
ports from the tobacco growers cOnven-
ton and lend their aid in meeting the
crisis.
Exciting scenes occurred in several
smaller cities in old Kentucky Tuesday
when tobacco growers. incensed at the
low bids made in market on their leaf
tobacco. made n concerted movement and
stopped the sales
In Carlisle violence was averted only
by closing the market and declaring all
sales of.
Growers stopped the sales at Mays
Vile about an hour after the opening.
General disorder prevailed. Thirty five
hundred growers from SIX counties
Mason, Lewis, Bracken and Fleming,
Kentucky, and Brown and Adams
Counties, Ohio. crowded around the buy
ers, cursing and yelling and pushing
buyers back. Tobacco that brought
from % to 35 cents last year, sold for
3 and cents today.
FACTORS IN
hurley AFFAIR.
The situation thus far is:
The Lexington loose leaf market, the
largest in the world, closed an hour
after the opening this morning with
the announcement that 1t would reopen
tomorrow.
The Tobacco Warehousemen's Asso-
citation, through Ben BOsworth, super
visor of sales, announced that the local
market would not reopen until Tuesday,
Jan. IL at the earliest.
Farmers have already begun hauling
their tobacco out of the Lexington ware
houses. in which there were about
100000 pounds when the sales started.
Bankers and warehousemen are to
meet at Lexington on Friday to decide
on means of financing growers who do
not want to sell.