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DO SHADE TOBACCO
TO Mm 1911
Crops of 1907-8-SMO Must
Be Marketed.
GA.-FLA. ASSOCIATION IS NOW DEAD
Many New Members Joined the
Farmers’ Tobacco Association
*
At Meeting Held at Attapulgus.
The Farmers Tobacco Associa
tion held its usual meeting yes
terday at the usual meeting place
and conducted one of the most
enthusiastic meetings of its time-
Many important things came
up and were discussed by the
body.
The first order of business was
the setting of a date for the an
nual election of officers and the
selection of a standing committee
to look after the interests of the
association.
The second in order was the en
rollment of the new members and
the discussion of the taking into i pose
these two interests are diametri
cally opposed to each other is that
it is a question of barter and sale
and that it is very natural conse
quence that the buyer should wish
to purchase his goods as cheaply
as possible and on the other hand
it is perfectly natural for the sel
ler to wish to realize all he can on
the goods sold and therefore it is
simply a matter of impossibility
to mix the two interests in an as
sociation in such a way that both
parties will be benefitted. I move
that the Georgia-Florida Associa
tion now be considered dead and
that we do hereby consign it to
the grave of oblivion and number
it among the dead and useless
ideas that have been found im
practicable and impossible.”
This resolution was ably sec
onded by Mr. Nicholson of this
asHocian and on passage the Geor-
g a Florid association passed into
history. The reading of this re
solution in the Farmers Tobacco
Association caused that body to
give a rising vote of thanks to it’s
members that were called upon
to act as pall-bearers for the as
sociation that failed in it’s pur
the association of all the good cit
izens of the county who have been
giving the association their un
qualified support and endorse
ment, and it was decided to fol
low out the plan of the associa
tion and take into membership
all good citizens who are not
packers of tobacco, connected
with, or the employees of tobacco
packers.
Many merchants and business
men are now joining the associa-
tion.
The association in discussing
the receipt of a very anonymous
letter by one of its members,
passed the following condemna
tory resolution:
•‘‘Be it resolved that this asso-
-clon do condemn the method of
writing such letters as the one
just read to this meeting, as a
dastardly and cowardly practice,
and one that all’ honest men ab
hor and condemn in every man
ner possible; the man or set of
men that were the instigators of
such a movement.”.
The resolution was passed by a
rising vote.
The association then called for
a report from its members that
attended the meeting of the old
Georgia and Florida Tobacco As
sociation that was held in Quin
cy with the intention of reorgan
izing this body that seems to
have failed in its mission and the
report made by Mr. Williams and
other members that were also on
the same mission tothe effect that
the old association adjourned sine
die after the usual reciprocations
of parliamentary courtesy.
The following resolution intro
duced into that meeting by Mr.
Williams and the old associa
tion went the way of impractica
ble ideas:
‘ ‘My friends, we have met here
at the call of our honorable presi
dent to pay the last sad rites to
the late, lamented and deceased
Georgia & Florida Tobacco Asso
ciation which has demonstrated
beyond a doubt the truth of the
trite old proverb ‘‘it impossible
to mix oil and water in the same
measure.” It is impossible to
combine two separate interests
that are diametrically opposed to
each other.
‘‘I have reference gentlemen
to the growers of tobacco who are
not packers and the growers of
tobacco who are packers and buy
ers of tobacco and who have
packed before selling it, in other
words the plain old farmer who
has no interest in tobacco save in
its raw stage and those who put
the finished articles on the mar
ket.
Now my reason for saying that
After this action the associa
tion adjourned to meet again next
Friday.
The following is the resolution
in full:
Wherein the association resolv
ed to not grow any shade tobacco
for another year and all concurr
ed in it’s passage and pledged
themselves to lend their very best
efforts to the carrying out of the
resolution to the best of their abil
ity and influence.
‘Whereas it is of vital import
ance to the best interest of the
shade or wrapper tobacco indus
try that the acreage to be plant
ed another year should be de
creased, on account of the great
scarcity of labor and more espec
ially on account of the large
amount of shade tobacco of every
grade of the 1907, 1908, 1909 and
1910 crops now remaining in the
hands of the growers, packers
and dealers still unsold—which
should be sold and absorbed be
fore another large amount is
grown, and the market still fur
ther overloaded and consequently
depresse i bv overproduction and
surplussage, and whereas the
consumption, sale and absorption
of the aforrsaid shade tobacco al
ready on hand is retarded and
slow, on account of existing con
ditions, and it is claimed by some
of those who have best opportun
ity for knowing that the best op
portunity for knowing that the
market is surfeited, and sluggish
from the excess on hand—it is
therefore in our opinion, bad busi
ness judgement, and opposed to
the rapid recovery, restoration,
and permanent prosperity of this
industry, to further aggravate
the- present conditions bv again
planting a large acreage of this
shade or wrapper tobacco; and,
Whereas the members of this
association and other growers of
shade tobacco have earnestly en
deavored by agreement between
the growers to reduce the acre
age of shade tobacco, and only
plant fifty per cent of the shade,
so that on that basis the farmer
might and should receive a guar
antee or contract price of fifty
cents per pound for his shade
grown tobacco of the stipulated
quality—for on account of the
scarcity and high price of labor
the advanced cost, of living, the
hazard and risk of loss, partially
or entirely from wind, hail, un
favorable seasons, insects or
other causes—the painstaking
course of proper barn-curing,
taking down and delivery at
every stage, of which weather
conditions may jeopardise the
quality of the whole crop, all of
these dangers being incident to
the making of every crop of shade
or wrapper tobacco, and added
to these the very expensive fer
tilizers required, and the neces
sarily large expenditures for
shade, barns, houses, etc., make
it impossible for us to profitably
raise first-class shade or wrapper
tobacco, which the contract
would require of us, for less than
fifty cents per pound, and,
“Whereas it appears that it is
impossible, at least at this time,
to reach this agreement to only
plant fifty per cent of the shade
on account of the fact that some
of the largest growers are un
willing to reduce their acreage
but expect to raise large crops of
shaded tobacco and,
“Whereas, from the present
condition of labor, and the con
dition of the shade tobacco mar
ket, and on account of the afore
mentioned large amount of that
tobacco on hand for four crop
years back, still unsold as set out
above, it is, in our judgment,
better for the present and future
good of this industry that no
shade tobacco should be grown in
this, section for another year,
than to again have a large crop
andithe consequent over-produc
tion and increase of the present
surplus unsold stock now on
hand.
“Therefore be it resolved, That
as at present advised, and under
existing conditions, we do not
grow any shade tobacco for the
year 1911, and that we turn our
attention and energies to cotton,
corn and other kindred crops un
til the shade tobacco market, the
labor and other conditions are
again normal and restored to
their former state of stability
and prosperity.! And we request
and recommend to all growers of
shade tobacco that this course
and policy be adopted and car
ried out.”—Bainbridge Post.
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GEORGIA—Grady County.
Notice is hereby given that the fol
lowing tax levy for county purposes
for'the year 1910 was made and collec
tion ordered to be made accordingly on
Sept. 20, 1910, viz:
S<
eventy cents on each Hundred Dol
lars worth of property returned for
taxation, which is sub-divided as fol
lows: (1) Fifteen cents to pay legal in
debtedness of the county due or to be
come due during the year or past due;
(2) twenty cents to build or repair
court houses or jails, bridges or ferries,
or other public improvements accord
ing to the contract; (3) ten cents to
pay sheriffs’, jailers’ or other officers’
:’ees that they may be legally entitled
to out of the county;y(4) two’ cents to
coun
pay'expenses of the bounty for bailiffs
at court, non-resident witnesses in crim
inal cases, fuel, servant hire ai d the
like; (5) ten cents to pay jurors a per
diem compensation; (6) six cents to pay
expenses incurred in supporting the
poor of the county; (7) seven cents to
pay any other lawful charge against
the county.
Also in compliance with the recom
mendation of the grand jury at Sep
tember Term Superior court, 1910, of
said county, the following special levy
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was made and ordered collected, to
wit: Thirty cents on each One Hun
dred Dollars returned for taxation for
the purpose ot maintaining and work
Grady county’s quota of convicts
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on the public roads of Grady county.
Upon report of County School Com
missioner of agreement between him
and the authorities in the several school
districts, the following leveis for local
school purposes have been made for
the ensuing year and the tax collector
ordered to make collection accordingly:
Woodland School District 3 1-2 mills
I’ine Union 4 millH
Greenwood 4 m jJ! s
Walker 4 s
Wtdffham}. 1-2 pilUs
Sunnyaldo.
Providence
mills
2 mills
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Pleasant Valley 3 m
Thomas Wight,
J. W. Sasser,
L. L. Baiiyvick,
Albert Powell,
Henry Mitchell,
J. S. Peebles,
County Commissioners.
M. L. Ledford, Clerk.
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