QUESTIONS ANSWERED
President Stone, of the Kentucky
Burley Tobacco Growers^ Associations
has answered the questionaire sent
out by the Greenville, N. C. Tobacco
Board of Trade in its efforts to dis
credit co-operative marketing i n
North Carolina. Saying* that these
questions are easy to answer. Presi
dent Stone has sent the following to
headquarters of the the Tobacco
Growers* Co-operative Association, at
Raleigh, N. C.
1—What percent of the Kentucky
crop delivered to the Association has
been sold by the Association? Ans.
Fifty per cent.
2—What per cent of the tobacco
sold was the best tobacco delivered to
the Association? Answer: Leaving
out the green grades, the tobacco
sold was not above the average of
what we still have on h^nd. This
question will be answered more fully
below.
3—What per cent of the tobacco
now in the hands of the Association
is common tobacco? Answer: There
is approximately twenty per rent of
the tobacco we have on hand unsold
which is common tobacco.
4—What per cent of the 1921 crop
of Burley tobacco that has been de
livered to the Association, is still in
the hands of the Association unsold?
Answer: Same as number one.
5—When will the Association sell
this tobacco, that is still in the hands
of the Association? Answer: We
sold five million pounds of our re-
dried tobacco last week, and judging
from the demand we have for it, it
all will be sold in the next sixty days.
6—When will the Association pay
the farmer in full for his 1921 crop
of Burley tobacco? Answer: Soon
as all the tobacco is sold in orderly
and profitable way.
7—When^ will the Association be
able to tell the Kentucky farmer what
his 1921 crop of tobacco averaged?
Answer: As soon as all the tobacco
is sold.
8—What per cent of the value fix
ed on the Kentucky tobacco, did the
Association advance the farmer ?
Answer: Approximately thirty-five
per cent in cash on the delivery of
his crop to our receiving plants.
9—Does the Association require you
to deliver all of your tobacco crop at
one time, or can you deliver it one
load at a time? Answer: The grow
er can deliver it all at one time, or
one load at a time to suit his con
venience.
10—Is the Association liable to you
in case the tobacco you deliver to
them damages before it is sold or re
dried? Answer: No, when the grow
er delivers his tobacco to the Associ
ation, he is issued a receipt showing
the number of pounds of each grade
he has delivered and the identity of
each man’s tobacco is lost from that
time on and each grower owns his
pro rata part in the total number
of pounds received by the Association
of the grades delivered by the grower,
if any tobacco is damaged in any
grade all of the growers in the Associ
ation, who owns any part of that
grade stands that damage pro rata.
11—When will the Kentucky farmer
know what it has cost him to sell his
tobacco through the Association ?
Answer: As soon as all the 1921 crop
has been sold and the final distribu
tion made. However, we have
thoroughly demonstrated to the satis
faction of our members that the ex
penses of our first year’s operation
will not be as much as the grower
in the past paid in actual warehouse
fees to sell his crop over the loose
leaf floors. Up to the first of April
1922, by which time all of our re
ceiving plants had been closed, and
the largest part of our expense of
operation had been paid, it cost fiO
cents and 1 mill per 100 pounds for
actual operation expenses. And this
operation expense includes all receiv
ing plants management, including
common labor, salaries of graders nnd
general office expense including sala
ries, but does not inchide the cost to
the farmer in payment for the real
properties which are being used for
receiving plants. This will be about
1 cent per pound per year.
12—What per cent does the Asso
ciation agree to advance the North
Carolina farmer on his tobacco de
livered? Answer: This, no doubt,
will be decided by the Tobacco Grow
ers* Co-operative Association of Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina in
connection with tobacco representa
tives of the Banks furnishing money
for the advance.
13—What per cent did the contracts
signed by the Kentucky farmer agree
to advance? Answer: There was no
agreement in the contracts of the
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative
Association agreeing to furnish any
particular amount but the amount to
be advanced was decided by the of
ficers of the Association who repre
sented the members of the Associa
tion and expert tobacco men repre
senting the banks who agree to fur
nish the money.
14—Who places the value on the
tobacco delivered to the Association?
Answer: Answer in question thirteen.
15—Does the farmer see his tobac
co sold? Answer: No, unless he
wants to. The Burley Association is
not doing anything under cover and
any member has a right to any infor
mation in regard to what the Associ
ation is doing.
16—Can the farmer refuse to ac
cept the price the Association sells
his tobacco at? Answer: No, the
members select the directors in their
respective districts in whom they have
confidence, and those Directors direct
the policy of the Association. You
might add to the answer of this ques
tion, what could the farmer do under
the old auction system, if he did not
accept the price he got on public sale.
Merely a Matter of Choice
“Bobby,” said the teacher sternly,
“do you know that you have broken
the Eighth Commandment by steal
ing James’ apple?” “Well,” explain
ed Bobby, “ Ithought I might just as
well break the Eighth as to break the
Tenth and only covet it.”
Ain’t it the Truth?
Full many a human you may know,
Along life’s slippery pathway walk
ing, Who left off THINKING years
ago—^But kept on TALKING—Eorris
Ward’s San. Sq. Siftings, in J. T.
All About Two Tree Toads
A tree toad loved a she toad
That lived in a tree;
She was a three-toed tree toad,
But a two-toed tree toad was he,
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The she toad’s friendly nod;
For the two-toed tree toad loved the
ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod;
But vainly the two-toed tree toad
tried—
He couldn’t please her whim!
In her tree toad bower, with her
V-toed power,
The she toad vetoed him.
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