ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS* ASSOCIATION 15 



Table 2. — Number of contracts with members in three States, July 1, 1922-1925 



Year 



South 

 Carolina 



North 

 Carolina 



Virginia 



Total 



1922 



8,174 

 8,889 

 10, 332 

 11,360 



40, 243 

 43, 85S 

 45, 532 

 46,060 



31, 226 

 35, 786 

 38,313 

 38, 550 



79,643 



1923 



88,533 



1924 



94, 177 



1925 



95, 970 







When the association passed into the hands of the receivers ap- 

 proximately 96,000 contracts had been signed. The distribution of 



Each dot represents 

 IOO members 



TYPES OF TOBACCO 

 "il-Virqmio Sun-cured 

 21- Eastern fire-cured 

 II- Old Belt flue-cured 

 \Z-Eastern Fluecured 

 13- Southeastern Flue-cured 



Figure 8— Members of Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association and 

 Producing Areas, by Types 



Of the 95,970 tobacco growers who joined the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Marketing 

 Association- the greatest concentration was in the Old Belt area of Virginia and North 

 Carolina and in the flue-cured (or dark-fired) area of Virginia. 



these contracts in the tri-State area is shown in Figure 8. At no 

 time, however, were there as many active members as there were 

 contracts. During the last two years especially, many members 

 stopped growing tobacco because of dissatisfaction with the associ- 

 ation. 



DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN 



As the association was formed during a period of low prices when 

 growers were anxiously seeking for some means of relief, it was 

 probably inevitable that the growers should see in the proposed 



