The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-08
NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS
Sign Up Warehouses with Cooperative
Tobacco Association.

ana dHCeDOiO, diiIoIS VIC iHSe W cS'A
their doors against cooperative mar
keting signed up warehouses with the
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Asso-
citation in last weeks campaign which
was the most remarkable series Of
meetings ever attended by tobacco
farmers in Eastern North Carolina.
The enthusiasm of $4,000 farmers
who attended over 80 crowded meet
ings in a dozen eastern counties OF
the state, turned the campaign into
a crusade. The crusade is rapidly
developing into landslide on which
thousands of new growers and a
number of warehouses have already
come into the Tobacco Growers Co.
operative Association.
"You will be able to raise more on
your advance payment and the assign
ment of your tobacco than you have
ever dreamed you could get out OF
tobacco" Aaron Sapiro told the thous-
ands of farmers in Eastern Carolina
who hailed him as the prophet of CO.
operative marketing in the five man.
meth mass meetings which broke all
records for attendance and filled
theaters, warehouses and courthouses
to over flowing in Washington, New
Bern, Farmville, KinSton and Colds
boro last week.
The California leader of Coopera-
tive Marketing Associations who rep
resents 100000 organized farmers and
60 associations with annual business
of four hundred million dollars, made
the prophecy that tobacco farmers Of
North Carolina would be able to raise
more from their advance payment
and the loan value of their participa-
ton receipt than they got on their
entire crop last year.
Neither the outsider nor the in
slider would have gotten any decent
prices for Burley tobacco in Kentucky
| if the association had not been organ
lied this last year," said Sapiro. Il
want to tell you that the growers in
Kentucky the year preceding got an
average of to II cents a pound for
Burley tobacco. The growers in the
association Tin kentucky this year
will average 25 cents a pound net
declared the little Californian who
called those spectators towards, who
circulated signed and unsigned pam
phlets against cooperative marketing
but feared to meet him face to face
with arguments against this move
ment of the farmers.
Spectators and warehousemen who
were hostile to cooperative market
ing, sat silent in meeting after meet
ing while Sapiro told the growers
that no system could be worse than
the auction sale of tobacco under
which tobacco farmers have averaged
only $4,000 q year income as COM
pared to the income Of $1,560.00 a
year which our government states as
necessary to maintain a decent stand
ard of living for the average Ameri-
can family.
More than ten thousand farmers
heard Sapiro during his five days tour
of Eastern North Carolina. At least
$4,000 other tobacco growers were
present at meetings held in % other
towns of the Eastern belt last week
where five Kentucky leaders Of the
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association convinced the farmers be-
yond a doubt of the success of the
Kentucky Burley pool.
"The minute the first payment OF
eight cents a pound was made to our
Kentucky growers upon delivery OF
their tobacco the bankers came and
begged to hold the participation re-
ceipts and paid eight cents more on
them," said C. E. Marvin, prominent
stock raiser and tobacco grower OF
Lexington. Mr.. Marvin told the
North Carolina growers that the Ken
lucky members Of the marketing as
sociation really got an average of 10
cents a pound Immediately after their
first deliveries because the banks were
eager to advance them money on the
security of their warehouse receipts
which the Kentuckians call participa-
ton certificates.
w. H. Shanks, president Of the
Lincoln County National Bank, told
North Carolina farmers in five coun-
ties that the participation receipts
are considered the best security in
Kentucky.
"Why one galussed fellow to whom
we wouldn't lend a nickel before, can
come into our bank now and borrow
hundreds of dollars on their partici-
nation raceints" said Mr.. ShankS.