Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-08-03
over $4,000 FARMERS
| NOW IN BURLEY POOL
T. S. Burnam Named On Eiec
tions Committee To Choose
New Directors In Sept.

than 63,00o farmers have joinec
the Burley Tobacco Growers Co
operative 4i..o- = Y ,ung
to the figures presented by AS
sistant Chief William Collins, OF
the Field Service Division, to the
Board of Directors of the Asso-
ciat,on in regular monthly session
at the offices of the Association
here yesterday. To the 55,617
members of the Association al
the time it was declared on last
November Is, with the signing up
Of IS per cent of the 1920 acre
age, there have been added S.201
of whom 3.79S have been added
since July 1, Mr.. Collins reported.
President James c. Stone ap-
pointed a committee composed of
Judge |. H. Thurman, of SPRING
field, J. M. Sousley, of Flemings-
burg. and T. S. Burnam, of Rich
mdnd, as an elections committee
to provide uniform system Of
holding the primary and election
of directors in September
Another committee composed
of Vice President Bush w. Allin.
of Harrodsburg, P. B. Gaines, Of
Carrollton, and ]. B. Winn, of
Versailles, was appointed by the
president to- re-district the hurley
territory, SO as to permit the east
ern Ohio, West Virginia ami
Tennessee growers to have rep
resentation.
! Both committees will report at
an adjourned session of the board
of directors today, and it is pro-
bable the directors will be in ses-
sion for most of the day before
they complete the business neces-
sary to transact in connection
with the coming elections.
The directors adopted unani-
mously motion Of Judge Thur
man that the surplus property of
the association be sold at auction
under the direction of Director of
Warehouses Ralph M. Barker,
the high bids to be reported to- the
The property will be advertised
for sale in the newspapers of the
counties in which it is located for
IA reasonable time previous to the
sales. under Judge Thurman's
motion.
Chairman Noah Glasscock. of
the organization in Franklin cotn
ty, Indiana. was before the board
in regard to the establishment OF
a receiving plant in that county.
Director Barker said that in his
opinion the county should have
receiving plant and on motion the
matter was left to him for deci-
sion and report to the board fol-
lowing a visit to that county,
which he will make as soon as
opportunity offers.
Tt was decided to- establish at
Foster, Ky. the receiving plant
requested for that town, because
of a considerable territory in
Bracken county and across the
river in Ohio tributary to it,
Which has been signed up to the
Association recently in addition
to the already large acreage I'M
the association which would Have
to be hauled or shipped a oohsid-j
cradle distance otherwise The
proposition had the approval Of
Director Barker and the execu-
tive committee, whose members
visited the site of the proposed
plant Tuesday. 1t will be financed
and the expenses of construction
borne locally before it is turned
over to the association.
Assistant Chief Collins urged
that now is the time for the cen
rial counties to sign UP ther
growers and President Stone ex-
pressed the hope that each direc-
tor would go home from the meet
ing and spend a week getting to-
gether the enthusiastic hustlers
who put the association over last
fall to go out and sign up as many
of the outsiders as possible.
Discussion Of the tobacco S tu-
alton among the directors reveal
ed the fact that. so far as their
sections of the country is concern
ed. the recent estimates of a large
tobacco crop are greatly exag-
eerated. Director Everett Nc
Clure. of Aurora, Indiana, said
that there would not be over half
of a normal crop in the Indiana
, counties.
Mr.. Glasscock reported to the
lhoard that about Is rer cent of
Franklin county. Ind ana. has
been signed and said that with
the establishment Of a reeeivino
plant there he had no doubt he