Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-06
TOBACCO INDUSTRY
TO BE BOOSTED
IN BEN HILL
Continued from Page u

grown. and today men of this Kind
were entirely out OF debt and with
mon IN the banks to their credit
rang .ne anywhere from $500 TO $1,000
and $4,000 ~ T'ooo
us advice to the bankers and mer-
chant9 was that they would have. to
ger behind the growing of tobacco #
II was ever MADE Success. That
demonstrators would have to he en-
pio!ed and he stressed the very great
Importance OF sechr.rG - Sure enough
honest to go >dnes5 dirt farmer dem
oGStrator, otherwise the demonstrator
would DO the farmers an injury He
stated that number of good dem
onstrators could be secured from the
sect on IN Georgia where successes
had been made in growing tobacco,
d. no IL thou3h: i; advisable to Sc
cure men even of broader experience
! aa demonstrators from the old tobacco
/ section OF North anG South Carolina.
re sad he would not advise the grow
rag 81 tobacco by {. man who was not
interested IN It, and that if he was not
W"Hil9 &c carry out the full instruc-
tiol'H ri the deinonstrator he had bet
ter let 1t alone. furthermore if he ex.
pected to make the growing of tobac.
&C a side line he had better leave il
alone. Unless he thought enough of
II to put 1t toward the forefront in his
cropping program that he would not
give 1t the necessary attention that it
should have, in order to make a good
grade OF tobacco. He further stated
that it would be absolutely necessary
to make the seed beds of sufficient
size to insure plenty of plants for ear
ly setting of the tobacco field which
should be done during the month of
March, but not later than April 10th.
He advised the banks that if they
would stick to and finance the farmer
IN growing tobacco under the instruc-
tions Of the right kind of demonstrat
ors that they would not only pay them
back all they received from them in
such financing but would even be
able to pay up many old back debts
such as the farmers had done in Ber-
rien county, sighting instances of
where they had paid notes and accounts
dated as far back as 1914, and that
the farmers themselves claim that
without the growing of tobacco they
never would have been able to have
paid their debts.
He told OF conversations with the
bankers and merchants in Adel Ga,
wherein they stated that the 400 acre |
tobacco crop IN Cook county had saw
ed number OF their places of business
from closing down this year, and that |
now the people in the little town of |
Adel had guaranteed to the cotton |
buyers that there would be a million |
and half pounds of tobacco mark
eted next Year
Mr., J. p. Ross, a pioneer tobacco
grower of North and South Carolina
and one Of the pioneer promoters of
the growing of tobacco in Georgia
made very interesting talk with a
great deal of good advise as to how
to grow, cure and market tobacco,
going into most every detail along
these lines. He also stated that Meth
er of the Carolinas had land any
better and in many instances not as
good as the lands of this section for
the growing of tobacco.
Mr.. w. r. Bowen, chairman of the
committee which had been appointed
by the Fitzgerald Chamber of Com
MERGE to work out plan for the grow
ing of tobacco and other agricultural
crops and submit for adoption of the
farmers very briefly and clearly out
lining the plan as has been agreed
upon by the committee Outlining this
plan he stated that arrangements had
been made whereby the necessary
demonstrators would be financed if
the farmers saw fit to go into the grow
ing of tobacco.
In connection with the growing of
tobacco he urged general diversified
program and named over all other
staple crops to be included in such a
program Mr. Bowen in discussing
the proposed cropping program sug-
gestedI and madea motion which pre-
vailed that a committee of "a includ-
ing the original committee which had
been appointed by the Chamber OF
Commerce be appointed TO work col
lectively with the trustees of the
different schools and the County
school superintendent in holding meet
ings with the farmers all over the
county for the working out and adopt
ing of the cropping program suitable
to the different sections and condh-
tons of the county. The following gen
tlemen were present and promised their
cooperation in putting over and car
rying out the program under discus
sion: C L Prescott. D w M Whit
ley, H K Sigh, R R Dorminey, J c
Rogers, r L Crenshaw, J ] Harper,
w R Dorminey, D Null, T ] Sword,
A J Swords, DR.. w D Dorminey, L
Z Ashurst, Dr. R M Ware, George
Drexler, ] B Huley, DR.. ] NJ ] Luke,
S H Wilson, H H James, WI Troupe,
w S Halle, S G Pryor Sr., S G Pryor
Jr., J H Order, G A Jolley, w R Bo-
wen, l. Gelders. w. Raine, M G Ho-
gan, Drew Paulk, J ] Dorminey, A
w. Parsons, G T Young, M Mum,
w ] Cavanaugh, Judge Harden, DR..
]. T. Cass, G B Eunice, w R Tucker,
J Ross, ] E Turner, c T Owens.
A Tobacco Growers Association
was formed at the close of the meeting
with the above Ben Hill county citi-
zens enrolling with Mr., J. E. Turner
| President and Mr.. c. T. Owens sec
rotary.
Very respectfully,