ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS ASSOCIATION 



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Table 8. — Estimated production of tobacco by members under contract in June, 

 1922, compared with the production in 1920 and number of growers in the 

 tri-State area 



State 



Tfonin^o'l Quantity signed up 



Growers 



in State 2 



Growers in associa- 

 tion 



Virginia 



Pounds 



179, 580. 000 



433, 750, 000 



65, 000, 000 



Pounds Per cent 

 136, 250, 121 75. 9 

 232,167,492 53.5 



38. 837. 824 39 8 



Number 

 49, 596 

 94, 274 

 19,281 



Number 

 31, 226 

 40,243 

 8,174 



Per cent 

 63.0 



North Carolina 



42.7 



South Carolina 



42.4 









Total 



678, 330. 000 407. 235. 427 fin n 



163, 151 



79,643 



48.8 











» Yearbook, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1921. 



2 1925 Census of Agriculture (10, pt. 2, County Tables IV, VI) . The 1924 census number of farms in the 

 3 States is more conservative than that of 1919, when the number was 176,295. The latter figure would 

 reduce the percentage of members who joined to 45.2 per cent. 



At the meeting of the board of directors on August 29, 1922, the 

 director of warehouses stated that it was his opinion that the asso- 

 ciation would receive 25,000,000 pounds in South Carolina, 70,000,000 

 pounds in eastern Carolina, 170,000,000 pounds in the " old belt," 

 and 40,000,000 pounds in the dark-tobacco territory, or a total of 

 approximately 300,000,000 pounds from the entire area. 



Table 8 shows that 60 per cent of the crop supposedly was under 

 contract by June, 1922, and that 48.8 per cent of the growers signed 

 the marketing contract. Table 9 shows the average number of 

 pounds of tobacco produced per grower in 1920, according to data 

 from the 1920 census, and the production per member, according to 

 estimates of the association. 



The number of acres necessary to obtain the production per mem- 

 ber estimated, based on the Department of Agriculture figures of 

 average production per acre for the period 1921-1925, is shown in 

 Table 10. 



Table 9. — Production of tobacco per farm, 1920, as reported by members in their 

 association contracts, compared with computed average for all tobacco growers 

 in the trirState area 





State 



Average production of— 



Members' 

 excess 





All grow- 

 ers i 



Members 





Pounds 

 3,621 

 4,601 

 3,371 



Pounds 

 4,363 

 5,769 



• 4, 751 



Pounds 

 742 





1,168 



South Carolina - -- - 



1,380 









Average 2 



4,158 



5,114 



956 







1 Production divided by number of farms reporting tobacco grown in 1924, according to the Census of 

 Agriculture. If the 1920 census figures for the number of growers is used the members' excess figure is 310 

 pounds greater, or 1,266 pounds for the 3 States instead of 956 pounds. 



2 Weighted. 



