Series II: Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association Contract Book, 1921-1925

Extent:

1 volume

Scope and content:

The Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association was a non-profit association of tobacco farmers organized in North Carolina in 1921 and administered by a board of twenty-five directors in Raleigh. It was organized "for the purpose of promoting, fostering, and encouraging the business of marketing tobacco cooperatively: for reducing speculation; for stabilizing the local tobacco markets; for cooperatively and collectively handling the problems of tobacco growers, and for other pertinent purposes."

Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association Contract Book, 1921-1925, contains the names of farmers and companies in Chesterfield County, Va., who signed contracts to market their tobacco cooperatively through the association. The contracts contain the farmer's address (name of community), the date of the contract, the number of pounds, type of tobacco (dark or bright) pledged, and the amount of acreage in production. Index included. The book also contains a printed agreement with the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1921, outlining terms of marketing agreements with farmers; and three signed affidavits of M.O. Wilson, Secretary of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, 1924.

Physical location:

State Records Center

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