Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-20
ers last year averaged $14.66. +


second distribution, making 81
hundred more than last year anC
| with another payment to come tC
the pool growers.
Director Barker declared thu
"this is the first time that the
grower has had anything to sa,
as to the price of his tobacco
and pointed out the inequalitie;
of the old system of marketing.
asserting that every man in tbs
pool got exactly the same price
for the same grades. He told OF
the purchase of tobacco by the
leading manufacturers of the
country from the association at
the associations price and he
said the association would con-
tlnue to fix the price.
Growers were promised that
the contract breakers would be
prosecuted and he said that one
OF the wealthiest men in Fayettc
county had been notified to come
in and pay the association 5 cents
a pound for the tobacco he had
pooled and then dumped. He said
the non-pool growers had sold
3o,OOO,OOO pounds at an average
OF 20 to 2l cents a pound and
that the pool growers would re
ceive, in his opinion, 20 to 80
cents pound.
Mr.. Barker told of consider
able Improvement i'll the green
tobaccos by air-drying and said
the growers would get the ben
eht of that Improvement. He
said the outsider was wanted ~
the association and wantedbadly,
but that the way to get the out
slder was not to go out on tue
street and call him all the names
in the dictionary" He declared
it was "a darned poor citizen,
regardless of standing or wealth,
who continues to ride a market
created by the poor growers.
He said that when 5000 grow
ers joined together. the other fel,
lows ought to come on in and
make it unanimous.
The speaker told of how the
association had succeeded i'll OBJ
tanning fair prices for re-drying.
lie said that if he couldn't show
any grower it was to his interest
to come in, he wouldn't ask him
to join. He asked which was
'the more effective argument,
sent out by local inter
ests advising the growers to
stay out of the association or
the checks given out by the as
sociation today to its members.
Although the association has
put on no drive since last fall,
Mr.. Barker said, hundreds OF
growers had joined the pool
since they sold their tobacco last
He said the only peopic
who were trying to get the
growers to stay out were those
who were making profit out Of
the farmers work. Although,
he said, Madison farmers had
been the most independent men
in the world and able to attend
to their own business, they had
demonstrated that they did not
know how to sell their tobacco,
under old system of marketing.
Mr.. Barker demonstrated the
of the association
of the Louisville tobacco market
when he told of the sale of scrap
to one of the leading manufac-
turers at 10 cents a pound when
scrap was quoted on the Louis
vile market at 5 cents a pound.
Efforts are being made, the
speaker said, to educate the grow
ers in the proper handling of their
tobacco. He said a few leaves
in hand, which didn't belong
there, meant sometimes a COnSid-
cradle loss to the farmers. He
declared it was not necessary for
The INTO hurry their crops to
market" for fear the price would
break. There is nothing this
won't do" he said,
for the benefit of the growers,
for it is for their benefit it was
started"
At the close of his address, Mr..
Baraker asked if any one, ''in or
out of the pool" wanted to ask
any questions. Otherwise" he
said, I'm not going to keep you
any longer, for | know you want
to go and spend that money"
President Stone, who was pres
ent, responded to calls for a
speech and said the success of the
association depended on the CON
tihued loyalty of the members.
He said there would be much
better organization next year al
less exOenSe