Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-03-28
POOL CONTRACTS
ROLL IN AGAIN
Jim Stone Tells Bright Growers
of Virginia Of Success Of
Kentucky Farmers

u Lexington, by. Mar. Il
/ Contracts Of the Burlcy Tobac-
/ CO Growers Cooperative Associ-
alton Tor 1922 arc coming into
/ the Office of the field service de-
Il partmcnt at almost the same
/ rate now as they did during the
height 81 the campaign last year
though no organized effort j.
being made 10 obtain signatures.
\ total oi 25S were received
/ saturday The daily average for
Z the 1921 campaign was SO a
day. Of the contracts received
Saturday. S3 came from PendIc-
+ ton county: > from Lewis. ~
from Campbell. ten from Dcr-
mcnt. Ohio: eight from Buiiiit.
seven from Bowie; SIX from Lin
coin SIS from Casey. five fromI
Franklin and four from Henry
county The remainder camel
irom aU parts of the hurley dis
tries.
Jim Stone Tells EN-
Methods of operations oi thc.
Buricy ToiaccD Growers Coop-
cratpc As>uc ation and some
thing of the success of thc first
american tobacco cooperative
were told the mcmbcrs oi thc
CSccutitc committee of Bright
Tobacco Growcr- Cooperative
ASSOCIATION. anothcr Sapiro or-I
-anizatiuu formed auorg thci
planters 81 Virginia. North Carl
olna and South Carolina. lvi
jaime, {. Stone. president audi
general manager of The Eurlcvi
ASSOCIATION. at Richmond. Nir-i
glnia. last week.
Mr. Stone was invited t0 at
tend ihc meeting of the cNccu-l
tive committee 81 the souihcrul
organization. in order that I'll
m git profit from the expert
cncc oi the Buricy producers. I
They were encouraged by thcl
report oi Air. Stone of ono suc-i
cess after another following theI
culi,tiug 81 tho business men.
bankers aul proics ional ucu.l
The warcilou>cmcu and tine !
tenth. oi the growers of thcI
Burnley district in the orgauiza
tion.
The growers in the bright bcltl
have 7uuOO members now with
control of 570OO0O0O pounds of
tobacco. SIR. Stone said. have al
ready organized and are ready
.or bgsncss.
SIR. Stone told the executive I
committee ct tho confidence Of
The bankers of the Burlcy dis
,rict IN the new system ct mar
Ncting. that confidence bcingl
shown by a loan OF $4,000 toi
be used 90 pay advances to far-i
mcrs ON the delivery oi their
crops. and Of the further agree
ucnt Of the banks To- loan money
1n the participation ccrtihca;cs.i
,o that the growers would not
be tempted to trade with specu-,
.ators and thus lose a part Of the
profits they had rightfully earn
ed themselves.
What has been done IN the
Burlcy district has attracted,
he attention OF the entire to-
pacco industry, President Stone
,aid. Not only are the growers
,i the bright belt Of the South
but our brethcrn OF
he black patch in Kentucky and
/ fcnnesscc are realizing that the
lnly hope for the future Of the
tobacco industry, so FAR as the
producer Is concerned, lies III theI
proper merchandising OF the
-rop. They arc gong To do II
hat way in Virginia and the
-arolinas, and. Judging from re-
ports OF the meetings addressed
ast week by Mr.. Saplro and
Judge bingham in the black
'atch', they also intend To do II
.here. |,
These organizations, OF
-ourse, viii be help also to thel
lurley growers. and the more
successful they are in enrolling
he producers OF their different
-iations, the more helpful they
sill be TO US.
i found the Southern planters
prospect of establishing mar
leting system that would meanl
| living and staple price for to-
lacrO wear after wear. heir