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To The Tobacco Planters of North CarolinaBy authority of the North Carolina
Tobacco Growers Association formed in Raleigh Oct. 19 1899 I call a
convention of the Tobacco Planters of N. C. to assemble in Raleigh Dec.
6th 1899.Planters in every tobacco growing county are requested to form
County Associations and send delegates, as many as they wish, to this
convention. In counties where no local organization is formed, individual
growers are urged to attend, so that if possible, all the tobacco growing
sections of the state will be represented. Planters from Va. and S. C. are
asked to join us.Representatives of the Tobacco Journals, Manufacturers,
and Warehousemen of the state are invited to be present and furnish such
data and information as they may have which will aid us in ascertaining
the true cause of the present depression in the prices of leaf tobacco.The
continually diminishing prices have been keenly felt by every planter and
it is hoped that in this convention some practical plan may be evolved by
which producers with judicious conservative, and persistent concert of
action may better their condition.If the prevailing low prices are due to
over-production, we should face the situation and endeavor to remedy it:
if it is found that the price is fixed by arbitrary methods we should
vigorously protest and determine to make that protest affectual [effectual]. Every intelligent farmer should
recognize the avantages [advantages]
to be secured by intelligent organization and determined co-operation.J.
Bryan GrimesPresident N. C. Tobacco Growers AssociationGrimesland N. C.
Nov. 6th 1899State papers favorable to this movement, please copy.
