The daily times., 1922-01-17

WIS also member, and they had
ht-iaW Wh1ca strictly bound them no+
10 BUY pound from anvi,odv v,t.o
vas not in this Leaf Tobacco ASS
CATION So they had sort of
monopoly and seemed to have everv-
body else frozen out.
Consequently, when we went ont
to organize tobacco farmers. onr
/ enemies told the growers, You can't
sell your tobacco; who is going toI
buy it?' But you may be sure that
the buyers broke and ran as soon as
they saw we meant business and
would get 81 per cent of our growers
signed up. They repealed their old
bylaw.
NOW these big buyers when thew
nave an order for tobacco come tn tho
cooperative marketing association
first of all. They come to us because
they know our big association. rep
resenting $500 of the states 54OO
growers, has larger assortment of
tobacco than anybody else. BUYERS
can get any quantity of any grade
! they want-in reason And this very
fact insures better prices for CO.
operating growers"
~. Canada Has Tried Cooperative
Marketing With Greatly
Increased Profits
L will also add in this connection
/, the reports from Canadian tobacco
! growers on the cooperative market
ing of their tobacco. A few weeks
ago Mr.. O. F. McCrary, district dem
onstration agent for Northeastern
North Carolina, sent the following
QUESTIONABLE to Mr.. John Coghill.
president of the Canadian Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Company.
kingsville, Ontario, and he answered
the questions as follows:
Q. Who can become members of
your Company?
A. Tobacco growers only.
Q. How many grades did the to-
bacco buyers claim to have before
your company was formed?
A. Three grades.
Q. How many grades does your
company have at the present time?
A. Seven grades.
! =. Did the spectators or others
try to- break up your company?
A. Yes.
| q. If SO, in what way?
! A. By spreading false reports.
Q. How much did non-members re-
| ceive for their tobacco of the same
grades that you have?
| A. Burley-growers, to 10 cents
per pound; flue-cured, from 20 to
40 cents per pound.
| @. How much did members of the
Cooperative Marketing Association
receive for their tobacco?
| A. From 4 0cents to 80 cents per
pound. The three lowest grades av-
eraged SO cents per pound.
I find Col. Webb saying, "Oh, we'll,
but Maryland and Canada cooper
ative marketing associations are
comparatively small" That is a green
argument. If cooperative marketing
Ican succeed on a small scale, there is
all the more reason why it should
isucceed on larger scale
V. The Situation in North Carolina
4 Today.
Now let us come to North Carolina
We haven't cooperative marketing
. here, but we have the system which
!, Col. Webb wants to keep fastened
on our farmers? How has it worked ?
l will take the testimony of a letter
| which just happens to be on my desk
as I write this. 1t is from Mr.. r. B.
, Harris, proprietor of the Farmers
Warehouse Company, Spring Hope
, N. c. Here is what he has written
me:
i Il am farmer and have been in
fthe tobacco warehouse business for
twenty years. I have seen for the last
two years that something had to be
done for the relief Of the farmer in
regard to marketing produce Ac-
cording to my judgment, a farmer
, who raises good tobacco gets fair
price for it, yet on account of the
fluctuation in the prices paid for the
best types of tobacco-think about
I it!-a 10 tof tobacco today bringing
$40 per hundred, tomorrow may
! bring $50 per hundred. This is the
most disgusting thing l ever knew,
yet this is the situation. The greatest
loss that a farmer sustains in mar
, keting his tobacco on the old plan
is in the common and medium
grades. / know speculatOr who
, buys the very commonest grades OF
tobacco. In 1920 his stock of tobacco