Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-18
WEDNESDAY. APRIL IS. 1923
CAMPAIGN OF MD, TOBACCO
GROWERS ASSN.

The intensive campaign for in
.creasing the membership of the
Maryland Tobacco Growers AS
ISOLATION in the five tobacco
growing counties of Southern
Maryland, which is being CON
Quoted under the direction of the
Maryland Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, is of utmost importance to
every grower of tobacco in this
section. With the object in view
of boosting the present member
ship strength of Approximately 40
per cent. OF the growers to 50
per cent. of the total number pro
ducing tobacco-of bringing the
activities of the Association,
through a large, solidiiied mem
bership, to an even higher point
of usefulness r. all the campaign
plans have been worked out III a
way that will bring to the at
tention of every grower not now
member of the Association the
far-rcaching benefits to be deriv-
ed by joining the organization.
In Anne Arundel county. the
three-day drive forliew members
will start ON MAY 2, and, while
this county already shows, a
larger proportionate membership
i'll the Association than any other
of the Southern Maryland coun-
ties, with the exception of Cal
vert county, there still is plenty
of room even here for substan-
tial increase in the percentage
figures. But so much interest
has been shown at some of the
preliminary meetings by tobacco
growers who are not yet affiliated
with the cooperative body, that
those in charge of the cam
paign in Anne Arundel are CON
tident their efforts will meet with
success.
The many advantages to be OBJ
tanned through the medium of n
well-managed cooperative mar
keting body are SO obvious. and
have been successfully demon
strated on so many occasions,
that every grower in Southern
Maryland should be fully cogniz-
ant of them. Everywhere that
cooperative marketing associa-
tons have gained strong foot
hold the resultant good to the
member-growers has been found
highly satisfactory. In fact. the
whole history of the cooperative
movement has been such as to
leave no room for doubt as to
It's splendid effectiveness.
Farmers have derived benefits
through cooperative associations
that they could never have hoped
to attain by working single
handed; they have had their in
terests protected, have seen their
products marketed at equitable
prices instead of being thrown on
the marekt to be sold, as was
often the case before the advent
OF the cooperative bodies, at
prices altogether inconsistent
with the actual cost of produc-
ton. The campaign which the
cooperative association conducts
in stressing the importance of
proper grading and packing also
has worked wonders in enabling
the grower to dispose of his prod
uctS far more advantageouslv
than in years gone by.
One of the complaints fire.
quently heard with reference, to
Maryland tobacco. concerns the
lack of that kind of grading
which growers of tobacco in
other parts OF the country, es-
pecially in Kentucky. have come
to realize as being a prime es-
sential. To remedy this condi-
ton, which is said to exist here.
the Maryland Tobacco Growers
Association. when it has increas-
ed its membership strength to
the desired proportions, plans to
erect cooperative packin 6