The regular monthly meeting of the Granville County Tobacco Growers Co-operative association was held Saturday in the local motion picture house. The delegates from the 14 locals which represent 2,300 farmers in the county, were very enthusiastic and showed determination to live up to the contract. The meeting was presided over by B.F. Dean, the newly elected chairman. E.Y. Floyd, the secretary, outlined the work of the last meeting, after which reports from the representatives of the various locals in the country were held.
Various matters of concern to the association were brought up for discussion. The topic most discussed was that of the third payment, and the question of landlord and tenant as to whether the landlord could be forced to pool his tenants’ tobacco if the tenant was not a member.
M.F. Adcock in a talk before the delegates told how tobacco was marked 30 years ago. He said, “My father never sold his tobacco until after it had gone through the May sweat. Then he prized it and rolled it to Richmond where it was placed in charge of a commission merchant.” He went on to say that the present condition of the farmers was caused by the method of marketing, and also regretted the fact that the auction system was ever established. Speaking with reference to the third payment he said, “It is the height of folly to insist on selling the tobacco now in the pool in view of the outlook for a crop this year.”
L.V. Morrill Jr., in a talk to the delegates, told of the decision of the court in which they held that the landlord was liable for all the tobacco raised on his farm. He also stated that the farmer had received an average of $18.80 per hundred pounds for all the tobacco he had placed in the pool this year.
According to statements the meeting was the best held here in some time.
From the local front of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, May 20, 1923
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