The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-17
TOBACCO
MARKETING
Open Forum for Expres-
sions for or Against Co.
operative Marketing
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
BY PRESIDENT J. G.. STONE
Dear Mr.. Wilson:

Dear Mr.. Wilson:
l am just in receipt of your letter
of May End, enclosing circular of
questions gotten out by the Greenville
Tobacco Board of Trade, and they are
all very easy to answer.
l. Q-What per cent of the Ken
tucky crop delivered to the Associa-
ton has been sold by the Association
A-Fifty per cent.
2. Q-What per cent of the tobac
co sold was the best tobacco delivered
to the Association
A-Lcaving out our green grades,
the tobacco sold was not above the
average of what we still have on hand
This question will be answered more
fully below.
8. Q-What per cent of the tobac-
CO now in the hands of the Association
is common tobacco?
A-Therc is proXimatcly twenty
per cent of the tobacco we have on
hand unsold which is common tobac-
co.
4. Q-What per cent of the 1921
crop of Burlcy tobacco that has been
delivered to the Association, is still in
the hands of the Association unsold?
A--Same as Number one.
5. Q-When will the Association
sell this tibacco, that is still in the
hands of the Association
Ave sold five million pounds of
our re-dried tobaccos last week, and
Judging from the demand we have
for it, it all will be sold in the next
sixty days.
6. Q-When will the Association
pay the farmer in full for his 1921
crop of Burley tobacco?
A-AS soon as all the tobacco is
sold in orderly and profitable way.
7. Q-When will the Association
be able to tell the Kentucky farmer
what his 1921 crop of tobacco aver
aged?
A-As soon as all the tobacco is
sold.
8. Q-What per cent of the value
fixed on the Kentucky tobacco, did
the Association advance the farmer?
cent in cash on the delivery Of his
crop to our receiving plants.
8. Q-Docs the Association re-
quire you to deliver all of your to-
bacco crop at one time, or can you de-
liver it one load at q time?
A-The grower can deliver it all
at one time, or one load at a time to
suit his convenience.
10. Q-Is the Association liable to
you in case the tobacco you deliver
to them damages, before it is sold or
redrcd?
A-No, when the grower delivers
tobacco to the Association, he is issu.
ed receipt showing the number of
pounds Of each grade he has delivered,
and the identity Of each mans tobacco
is lost from that time on, and each
grower owncs his prorata part in the
total number of pounds received by
the Association of grades delivered
by the grower. If any tobacco. is
damaged in any grade, all of the
growers in the Association, who
ownes any part Of that grade, stands
that damage prorata.
II. Q-Whcn will 1.-The Kentucky
farmer know what it has cost him to
sell his tobacco through the Associa-
ton?
A-As soon as all the l91 crop has
been sold and the final distribution
made. However, we have thoroughly
demonstrated to the satisfaction of
our members that the expense of our
first years operation will not be as
much as the grower in the past has
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 receiving plants had
been closed, and the largest part Of
our expense of operation had been
paid, It cost 40 cents and 1 mill per
100 pounds for the actual, operation
expenses. And this operation cX-
pcnse includes all receiving plants
management, including common lab
or, salaries Of graders, and general
Office expense, including salaries, but
this does not include the cost Of the
farmer in payment for the real pro-
pcrtics which are being used for re-
ccivinG plants. This expense will be
about cent per pound per year.
IL. Q-What per cent does the
Association agree to advance the
North Carolina farmer on his tobac-
co when delivered?
A--Ths no doubt will be decided
by the Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association Of Virginia, North and
South Carolina in connection with to-
bacco representatives Of the Banks
furnishing money for the advance.
Is. Q-What per cent did the con-
tracts signed by the Kentucky farm
cr agree to advance?
A-Thcrc was no agreement in the