Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-01-18
"CUT OUT PLEDGE
OFFERED TO GROWERS
Tobacco Markets Reopen With
Prices Not Much Better
Than Offered Before

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day resumed in the loose lea.
warehouses of Lexington anC
throughout the whole hurley dis
trict of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio
West Virginia and Tennessee.
, The reopening of the Lexington
market as orderly and the attend
lance OF growers at the sales was
large.
There was scant Improvement
If any, i'll the average prices Mon
day by comparison with the price,
obtained on January 3 and 4
However, there were few rejec
tions and only few declaration.
of intention to take the tobacco
back home One such declaration
came from the overseer for Con
gressnan J. Campbell Cantrill
who has this year about 10000
pounds. AS general proposition
the growers accepted the situa
ton without expression.
The first sale here Monday wa
held at Headley No. 2 warehouse
where 255.655 pounds brought al
average of $1l.9O per hundred. |;
was for the greater part mea1
lot of tobacco. Considerable of i
sold as low as so cents a hun
drcd. The highest price wa:
S45.75 hundred for 4,l30 pounds
OF good tobacco picked from tho
crop raised by IIeadley & Hayne
on the Headley farm in Fayctte
county. An average of $50 wa
made for $50 pounds grown il
Pulaski county; $27.94 was mad,
for SOS pounds grown in Wood
ford county.
At the New Faycttc 3800U
pounds were sold for an average
OF $3.50. This was much better
floor of tobacco than that oi ths
Flcadley house. A basket from
the 0,OOO pounds sold for IlugI1e,
& Arnold, Of Fayette county
brought sos per hundred, but the
average for the crop was $zI.0O
In this house it was stated, no to
faceo- sold for less thar ST per
The sale at the big Tattcrsalls
warehouse was not completed and
no figures were gwen out, but,
Judging from the run of the sale
it is stated that there will be CON
siderable Improvement i'll the sell
ing today to bring the average for
that floor up to $14 a hundred.
The highest for any basket was
SIS a hundred and the lowest Sc
cents a hundred.
At the Independent warehouse
about 10000 pounds of the floor
was sold for an average of about
SIS a hundred.
\ message from Carrollton is
90 the effect that aft crsalcs had
a while on that mar
ket Monday the growers. without
prevailed upon the ware
house men to stop the sales
In furthcrancc of the sentiment
expressed by the growers in the
here last week ami TIC
previous week that the present
crop be held off the market and
that no crop be grown in 1921,
President Frank NJ. Mckee, Sec
rotary Joe c. Van Meter and .
committee of the "Crop Cutters,
as this organization of growers
now forming is called, to distin-
guish it from the Burley Tobacco
Growers Association, headed by
President John w. Newman, met
here Monday and adopted the fol
lowing form Of pledge, which all
growers in Kentucky. Ohio. Indi-
ana, Tennessee and West Virginia
are asked to sign and send in to
President Mckee:
The "Cut-Out" Pledge
"Whereas, it is desirable to cut
out the tobacco crop of 1921. Now
this form of pledge and all copies
thereof shall be considered as one
of writing and one
agreement, and the under signed
binds himself to all
of the other subscribers of this
form of pledge, and each sub
scriber binds himself to every 9TH
er subscriber of this form of
pledge that he will not grow or
permit to be grown on his land or
any land under his control any to-
bacco in 1921.
'But this pledge shall not be
unless at least Is per cent
of the growers of the white bur-
ley district of Ohio, Indiana, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and West Vir-
ginia sign this pledge or copies by
March l. 1921.
This pledge was drafted by the
committee of five appointed last
Friday. and composed of Messrs.
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