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A Farm and Home Weekly for the Carolinas, Virginia, ITenrleasee and Georgia.
PROQRESSIVEVPARMER VOL. XXI. NO. 49.
THE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXIII. NO. 48.
RALEIGH, N. C, JANUARY 24, 1907.
Weekly: $1 a Year;
Peanut Growers Meet in Suffolk.
Organization Completed, at January Meeting Minimum Price of 5H
Gents Fixed, to Increase One-Eighth of a Cent Each Sixty Days.
Plans for Jamestown . Exhibit.
An interesting official report of the
Peanut Growers Association, held at
Suffolk, Va., on the 11th instant, sent
us by Secretary Stephenson, came to
hand just too late to appear "in last
week's paper. We are giving in this
issue, however, the salient points of
interest in the business transactions,
for The Progressive Farmer has from
the first taken a deep interest in
these steps to organize the peanut
farmers, and we are anxious to give
all the aid we can.
At this Suffolk meeting, the first
held since the twentieth of last No
vember, Vice President Nat. T. Rid
ley, of Boykins, Va., presided, and
Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson was secre
tary. Thirty-three of the local and
eounty unions were represented.
By resolution, the Association was
organized as a department of the
American Society of Equity, a Na
tional; organization of farmers to se
cure profitable prices for farm pro
ducts. .".
The Constitution and By-Laws.
The Constitution and By-Laws pro
vide: (1) That this organization shall
, be known as. the American Society of
Equity, Department of Peanut Grow
' era.
(2) Its membership shall consist
of white members of the American
Society of Equity, who are producers
of peanuts or who are in sympathy
with the interests of peanut growers.
(3) The principal office of this or
ganization shall be maintained at the
place of residence of its Secretary.
Purposes and Objects.
(4) The purposes and objects of
this organization are to promote the
growth of peanuts along conserva
tive lines, market the crops tat profit
able prices, protect our home mar
kets, and do such other things as
will promote the best interests of
peanut growers.
f4VThe directors shall have
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charge of the prudential concerns of
this organization. They shall have
power to hire agents and representa
tives and decide their compensation,
appoint committees and discharge
committees and- employees, make con
tracts and agreements; but it is not
intended by this section to confer
upon said directors the authority to
assume any obligation or make any
contract for the expenditure of money
in excess of such amount as may be
in the treasury at the time subject
to the draft of said directors.
' (5) The expenses of this organiza
tion shall be met out of a fund cre
ated by the assessment of one-half
per cent per bag upon all peanuts
grown by the members of the several
"Local Unions, to be paid to the Secre
tary of the Local Union at the second
regular meeting in February of each
year.
(6) The minimum price at which
any crop of peanuts shall sell shall
be agreed upon at each annual meet
ing for the crop of that year.
(7) This organization must be
chartered by the National Union of
he American Society of Equity. Full
power will be conferred upon this
organization by the National Union to
conduct its own affairs.
Board of Directors.
The following Directors were elect
ed by a rising vote: Dr. Livius Lank-
ford, Norfolk, Va.; J. T. Bryant, Sun
beam, Va.; S. P. Winborne, Como,
N. C; Dr. R. H. Stancell, Margaretts-
ville, N. C.
To Maintain Prices.
At the opening of the meeting a
committee to report on prices was
named as follows: C. F. Whitfield,
Southampton Co., Va.; B. C. Roberts,
Isle of Wight Co., Va.; E. L. Everitt,
Nansemond Co., Va.; R. H. Stancell,
Northampton Co., N. C; S. P. Win-
borne. Hertford Co.. N. C; C. S.
Godwin, Bertie Co., N. C; J. L. Sav
age, Chowan Co., N. C.
This committee on price offered
the following report:
"1. The members of this Union
have on hand 73 per cent of their
production. The non-members hold
29 4-5 per cent of their production.
: "2. The price of peanuts (farmers'
grade) shall remain at 5 1-2 cents
per pound for sixty days from Jan
uary 15th, 1907. At the expiration
of these 60 days the price shall be
advanced y& cent, and cent for
every 60 days thereafter, until our
regular meeting to be held in Sep
tember, 1907."
Exhibit at Jamestown.
The report of the Committee on the
Jamestown Exposition was given by
Dr. R. H. Stancell, who introduced
Mr. J. Lyman Babcock, Special Ex
position Agent of the Norfolk and
Southern Railway Company. Mr.
Babcock offered free floor space, and
stated that his company would as
sume entire responsibility and ex
pense of demonstrating the exhibit,
asking in return about twenty-five
bags of the best peanuts to be had
in the Peanut Belt, 2,000 yards of
fine peanuts strung for festooning
purposes, and $5 from each Local
Union.
Messrs. O. Goodridge, of Surry
Co., Va., and W. H. Howell, of North
ampton Co., N. C, and Dr. L. Lank-
ford, of Norfolk, -Va., briefly ad
dressed the body, after which the
Association adjourned to meet in the
Agricultural Building of the James
town Expositon on September 26-27,
1907, on an invitation -from the Ex
position authorities.
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