Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-20
GREAT CROWD
HEARS BARKER
Director of Warehouses of Asso-
citation Tells Hotv Burley
Price Has Been Raised

who delivered their tobacco II
the Burley Tobacco Growers
Cooperative Association, saved
$280C0 as compared with the
cost of marketing their tobacco
over the loose leaf floors, Direc-
tor of Warehouses Ralph NJ.
Barker, of the Burley Associa-
ton, told great crowd of grow
erS and business men this after
noon at the courthouse here, fol
lowing the distribution of the
second payment made to the
growers on their tobacco in the
pool.
Mr.. Barker gave the figures to
back up this statement. showing
that the cost of marketing with
4 he association in this county
had not been half as much as the
cost OF selling over independent
floors.
Mr.. Barker reviewed what had
been done for the farmers by the
organization of the cooperative
and its handling of their tobacco
and said the growers in the pool
would receive more money for
their tobacco than those who
chose to remain outside and pay
for their warehouses and ali
c&ts OF operation besides.
Previous to Mr.. BarkersI
speech eight hundred and fifty
Madison county tobacco raise
received their checks for the sec
ond distribution. Business was
lively in Richmond today, almost
every store in the city being fill
ed with customers from thel
country, and the bankers were
given a lively afternoon cashing
and crediting the money to the
accounts of the growers.
The sentiment OF the tobacco
growers seemed to be unanimous
that the cooperative has GOMEZ
to stay. W. S. Richards. of tile
Red House section, seemed tot
4Spresse the sentiment OF most
'M the growers when he said: .
paid s. to join the Burley pooi
and Id cheerfully pay another
IS if it was needed, and still an
other, if asked to do so. without
complaint. That's how friendly
| feel toward the cooperative
and all the members | know G1
feSl about the same way about
it"
The total distributed to the
growers of Madison county was1
about $215.000. Director T. 5. |
Burnam said. after the meeting. |
Director Burnam called the
meeting to order and before i'll
Producing Mr.. Barker told OF his
conversion to the pool idea, tho,
he had been opposed to the old
pool. He told how the cooper
ative had resulted in every grow
er being treated alike. "the !
grades like peas in a pod" he
said.
Mr.. Burnam told of the elec
Ition Of James c. Stone as presi-
dent and of the fact that the
growers had the very best man to
conduct their business. He paid
high tribute to- the unseltish de-
votion of Judge Ralph ". Blng=
ham to the interests of the tobac-
co growers, told of his financing /
the organization and lending it a
million dollars as evidence of his
confidence in it.
Mr.. Barker recalled the history
of the movement to organize the
growers and declared the organ
h7tion had been the most sue
cessful of its kind in the world,
and declared that factNvas due toI
the faith of the farmers in each
other. He recalled the predic-
tions of failure-failure to organ
ize, failure to obtain warehouse
facilities, failure to grade the
crop. failure to finance it, failure
to sell it-and showed how the
facts had belied each of the pre-
dictions. He told how the banks
bad loaned the Association $4,-
100000 in the face of a declara-
ton on the part of a prominent
lawyer of, Kentucky that the
Bingham Cooperative Market
ing Act was illegal.
The speaker declared that any
pooler could "have look at
the books" whenever he wanted
to. He paid tribute to the eff
cheney of the Board of Directors
as the best Board of Directors in
the state. He. said that in six
weeks. the association had receiv-
ed 100000 pounds and at All
sxpense of about 50 cents hun
dred, as against an expense of
$1.25 hundred for those who
aHid. outside the pool.
sr&ar~o coId h, M,d;co,, grow.