The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-05-17
TOBACCO
MARKETING
IN KENTUCKY
President Stone of Burley
Association Answers Cues
tions of Opposition

Raleigh, n. c., May 12.-Presi-
dent Stone, of the Kentucky Bur-
ley Tobacco Growers Association
has answered the QUESTIONABLE
Esent out by the Greenville, n. c.,
Tobacco Board of Trade in its eff
forts to discredit cooperative mar
keting in North Carolina. Saying
that these. questions are easy to
answer President. Stone, has. sent
the following to headquarters Of
the Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association at Raleigh:
/. What percent or the Ken
lucky crop delivered to the Asso-
citation has been sold by the Asso-
citation? Answer: Fifty per cent.
I 2. What per cen Of the tobacco
[ sold was the best tobacco delivered
Ito the association: Answer:
| Leaving out the green grades, the
tobacco sold was not above ~
average Of what We still have on
hand. This question will be an
swered nor fully below.
8. What per cent of the tobs co
now in the hands Of the AS cia-
ton is common tobacco? Answer:
! There is approximately tv enty
per cent of the tobacco we lare on
hand unsold which is conn On to-
bacco.
4. What per cent of nc 1921
crop of .Burley tobacco i t has
been delivered to the Assoc alton,
is still in the hands Of the Asso-
citation unsold? Answer: s. ne as
number one.
5. When will the Asso -iation
sell this to eco, that is still in the
hands of the Association? An
lswer: We sold five million pounds
Of our re-dried tobacco last week,
and judging from the demand we
have for it, it all will be sold in
the next sixty days.
6. When will the Association
pay the farmer in full for his 1921
Ecrep of Burley tobacco? Answer:
Soon as all the tobacco is sold in
orderly and profitable way.
4. When will the Association be
able to tell the Kentucky farmer
what his 1921 crop of tobacco av-
terased? Answer: AS soon as all
the tobacco is sold.
s. What per cent of the value
fixed on the Kentucky tobacco did
the Association advance the farm
er? Answer: Approximately 35
per cent in cash on the delivery of
his crop to Our: receiving plants.
g.. Does the Association re-
quire you to deliver all of your
tobacco crop at. one time, or can you
deliver it M load at a time? An
swer: The grower can deliver it all
at one time, or n load at a time
to suit his convenience.
10. Is the association liable to
you in: case the tobacco you deliver
to them damages, before it is sold
or redried ?? Answer: No when
sthe grower delivers his tobacco to
the association, he is issued a re-
ceipt showing the number OF
pounds of each grade he has de-
lxered, and the identity of each
mans tobacco is lost from that
time on, and each grower owns
his prorata part in the total num-
Der OF pounds received by the as
ISOLATION of the grades delivered
by the grower. Il any tobacco is
damaged in any grade, all of the
growers in the association, who
owns any part of that grade, stands
that damage prorata.
IL. When will the Kentucky
farmer know what it has cost him
to sell his tobacco through the AS
ISOLATION? Answer: AS soon as all
the 1921 crop has been sold and
the final distribution made. How
ever, We have thoroughly demon
strated to the satisfaction of our
members that the expenses of ou1
first years operation will not. be
as much as the grower in the past
paid in actual warehouse fees to
sell his crop over the loose leaf
floors. Up to the first of April
1922, by which time all of our re-
ceaving plants had been closed, and
the largest part of our expense OF
operation had been paid, it cost 4e
cents and 1 mill per 100 pounds fol
actual, operation expenses. And
this operation expense includes all
receiving plants management, in.
Guiding common labor, salaries OF
graders, and general office expense,
including salaries, but does not in
clude the cost to the farmer in
payment for the real properties
which are. being used for receiving
plants. This expense will be about
cent per pound, per year.
II. What per cent does the as
ISOLATION agree to advance the
North Carolina farmer on his to-
bacco when delivered? Answer:
This no doubt Will be decided by
the Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association of Virginia, North and
South Carolina in connection with
tobacco representatives of the
banks furnishing money for the adj
vance.
Is. What per cent did the con
tracts signed by the kentucky
farmer agree to advance? Answer:
There was no agreement in the
contracts of the Burley Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Association
agreeing to furnish any particular
amount, but the amount to be ad-
vanced was decided by the officers
Of the associations. who represented