. Business analysis of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. Tobacco Economic aspects; Cooperative marketing of farm produce. ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS' ASSOCIATION 65 The warehouse corporations were to do no buying or selling of tobacco whatsoever. PURCHASE OF WAREHOUSES AND WAREHOUSING POLICIES It was necessary before the marketing season opened to obtain control of local warehouses to handle anticipated deliveries of tobacco. A warehousing department was formed and placed under the control of a director of warehouses, with a staff consisting of an assistant director and several di
. Business analysis of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. Tobacco Economic aspects; Cooperative marketing of farm produce. ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO GROWERS' ASSOCIATION 65 The warehouse corporations were to do no buying or selling of tobacco whatsoever. PURCHASE OF WAREHOUSES AND WAREHOUSING POLICIES It was necessary before the marketing season opened to obtain control of local warehouses to handle anticipated deliveries of tobacco. A warehousing department was formed and placed under the control of a director of warehouses, with a staff consisting of an assistant director and several district directors. The board. TOBACCO POOLS :':;\ Sun-cured [^§jj Dark-fired yfflfaOld Belt | [JJJ Eastern Carolina i I South Carolina WAREHOUSING CORPORATION WAREHOUSES PURCHASED RENTED • Dark Leaf «» ght Leaf o Central Carolina A Eastern a South Carolina -tr Figure 15. -Location and Number of Association Warehouses by Ware- housing Corporations and Pool Areas, 1923 In 1923 the tobacco association owned 115 warehouses and rented 116. It operated more than one warehouse in each of 72 out of 149 markets where it had warehouses. In 44 markets it had 2 warehouses, in 22 it had 3, and in 6 markets it had 4 warehouses. placed upon this director and a subcommittee of the board the task of purchasing or leasing the necessary warehouse space. By June 17, 1922, the association was able to report the acquisition, by pur- chase, lease, or contract to build, of 214 warehouses located in the important receiving centers. The tangible warehouse property came under the control of five subsidiary warehousing corporations. Fig- ure 15 shows the location of the five warehousing corporations and the distribution of the purchased and leased warehouse property. Table 27 gives the number of tobacco warehouses owned, leased, and controlled by warehousing corporations, by years. The total 76534—29 5. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digit
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