The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-07-22
Tobacco Growers
Cooperative Mar
keting Association

keting Association
It now looks as though the
Sumter tobacco market this sum-
mer, beginning August 1st is going
to be tie most important inde-
pendent tobacco market in South
Carolina because every big tobac-
co company in the United States
has arranged to have its buyers
on the Sumter market, while it is
question in the minds Of many
whether other tobacco markets
which are just arranging at the
last minute, almost. for "independ-
ent'' warehouses to sell tobacco
not signed up with the Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Marketing
Association will be able to get buy
ers for independent tobacco. Sum-
ter will also be one Of the most
important cooperative markets and
the Tobacco Association has leas-
ed and has fixed up quarters in the
old Magnetic factory building on
Telephone street within few
hundred feet of the big tobacco
stemmery.
Every independent tobacco
grower should try sumter's ware
houses to .1try OUT conditions. That
there is going to be the biggest and
strongest competition in South
Carolina on the Sumter tobacco
market is believed by many
The China-American Tobacco
and Trading Company, one of the
largest tobacco exporting compa-
nies in the world, with a large
capital and requiring millions Of
pounds of tobacco to operate its
large Sumter stemmery and drying
plant, employing hundreds of
hands will be on the independent
Sumter market bidding strongly
against ali other companies for To-
cal tobacco and this simply means
that the tobacco growers who sell
on the Independent warehouse
floors will enjoy the benefits Of
keen rivalry and competition in the
buying of all tobacco not pooled
with the Cooperative Tobacco Mar
keting Association.
The Export, the Imperial, Lig-
gett & Myers, The American, the
China-American r. j. Reynolds &
company and other important
tobacco companies have arranged
to have buyers at Sumter this sum-
mer.
The warehouse lessees Of the
I two Sumter warehouses - the
Banner Warehouse. and the Farm
ers Tobacco Warehouse, are going
to be put to it as never before in
competition with the cooperative
association markets and both
warehouse lessees are going to be
on the job to see that the highest
possible prices obtainable will be
paid for Independent tobacco.
Sumter's big stemmery gives this
market a most decided advantage
this summer over all other tobac-
CO markets not blessed with a
tobacco stemmery Tobacco COM
! oanies can pay higher prices for
green tobacco in Sumter because
they do not have to ship the high
tobacco bought on the "independ-
ent" Sumter warehouses to dis
I tant points to be redried and stern
med in order to keep the tobacco
from deteriorating. and the
amount thus saved in freight that
would be otherwise required in
shipping to distant stemmeries Will
be given the tobacco producers on
the Sumter Independent tobacco
warehouse floors.
The Tobacco Growers Coopera-
tive Marketing Association has re-
ceived the heartiest support OF the
| Sumter business establishments
and Sumter banks. and the Asso-
ciation is very friendly to Sumter
! in consequence. But inasmuch as
there are hundreds Of thousands OF
! pounds Of tobacco not signed up
with the association and which
must have an outlet through 'in-
| dependent warehouses. why the
! largest and most important tobac-
co companies and manufacturers
have centered on Sumter as a good
place to buy their independent
weed
| The business establishments OF
Sumter while believing in the CO
operative marketing of tobacco and
cotton are none the less interested
! in the hundreds Of Independent
| tobacco sellers having the best
possible selling facilities, and our
business men will try their best to
see that the Independent ware
houses of Sumter are ION the
/ Job" taking care of prices on this
| kind of tobacco this summer.
The tobacco growers who sell
through the pooling or coopera-
tive plan on the Sumter market
will Of course, be we'll taken care
of by the Tobacco Growers Co
operative Marketing Association
The big tobacco stemmery at Sum
! ter also operates in favor of the
Association tobacco brought to the
Sumter market.