ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Table 13. — Membership in the several pools and members delivering tobacco to 

 their association, crops of 1922-1926 





Membership contracts Members delivering tobacco to the association 

 signed to — crop of— 1 



Pool 



Sep- 

 tem- 

 ber, 

 1922 



Dec. 



31, 

 1923 



Dec. 

 31, 

 1924 



Dec. 



31, 1922 

 1925 



1923 



1924 



1925 



1922 



1923 



1924 



1925 



Sun-cured and 



dark-fired 



Old belt... 



Num- 

 ber 

 14,704 

 35, 343 

 19, 206 

 10, 390 



Num- 

 ber 



17, 600 

 42, 000 

 20, 000 

 12, 300 



Num- 

 ber 

 18, 000 

 42, 800 

 20, 300 

 13, 300 



Num- Num- 

 ber 1 ber 

 18,100 13,100 

 42,900 34,100 

 20,400 11,750 

 15,000 10,000 



Num- 

 ber 

 15, 150 



35, 700 

 8,150 

 9,900 



Num- 

 ber 



12,580 



30, 950 



4,650 



7,600 



Num- 

 ber 



10, 590 

 20, 720 

 3,100 

 9,060 



Per 

 cent 

 89 

 96 

 61 

 96 



Per 

 cent 

 86 

 85 

 41 

 80 



Per 



cent 

 70 

 72 

 23 

 57 



Per 



cent 

 59 

 48 



Eastern Carolina.. 

 South Carolina 



15 

 60 



Total. 



79, 643 



91, 900 



94,400 



96,400 68,950 



68,900 



55, 780 



43,470 



87 



75 



59 



45 







i The delivery records of the association did not provide means of an exact count. 



Table 14. — Delivery performance of 800 members: Percentage of those delivering 

 in 1922 who delivered in succeeding years 1 



Market 



1922 



1923 



1924 



1925 



Chatham, Va 



100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



30.0 



72.0 

 31.0 

 40.5 



31.0 

 51.0 

 13.5 

 21.5 



33.5 



Richmond, Va 



39.5 



Goldsboro, N. C. 



(*) 



Snow Hill, N. C 



7.5 







1 At random 200 members were taken at each of the 4 markets. 



2 No data available for 1925. 



According to the membership study, in reply to the question, 

 "When did you first sell outside?", 13.6 per cent of those who sold 

 outside admitted first doing so in 1922; 22.1 per cent, in 1923; 28.2 

 per cent, in 1924; 32.4 per cent, in 1925; and the remainder stated 

 that they did not know when they first broke their contracts. Of 

 all the members visited, 44 per cent admitted having sold outside 

 of the association. The percentages of members, by pools, who said 

 that they sold tobacco on the auction floor during the period 1922 

 to 1925, were as follows : Sun-cured pool, 10 per cent ; dark-fired, 

 11.1 per cent; old belt, 28.7 per cent; eastern Carolina, 64.7 per cent; 

 South Carolina, 70.8 per cent. 



Table 15 gives the replies of those who admitted selling tobacco 

 outside of the association, in answer to the question as to why they 

 sold outside. The reason most frequently given was that they were 

 forced to sell outside ; 84 or about one-third gave this reply. Higher 

 prices on the outside was the reason given by 62 members. Other 

 important reasons were as follows: Association payments were too 

 low ; everybody else was selling outside ; the association had failed. 



Probably the outstanding fact presented in Table 16, in regard to 

 the justification of selling outside of the association, is that prac- 

 tically 70 per cent of the members interviewed in the new belt of 

 eastern North Carolina felt that the contract breakers were justified. 

 The percentages replying thus in the other belts were much smaller, 

 especially in the sun-cured and dark -fired pools. Over half of the 

 643 members questioned felt that the selling outside was not justified. 



