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Show GROWERS HOLD TOBACCO IN FACE OF LOW PRICES t N OWENSBORO. Ky.. Dec. 7. Sev- bral hundred tobacco growers, refus-I refus-I Ing to s.-li their tobacco at the opening ; of the Green River district market 1 Monday, held a conference and ap-t pointed a committee to devise means! to hold their crops until higher prices' ; are offered. Thp prices offered were the lowest since 1915, and were de- Clared b the growers to be below pro- I ductlon cost. There were 500.000 pounds of tobac-' I co offered for .,le. of which only 270.-; 270.-; 255 were purchased at an average price of $7.23 a hundred pounds. This .compared with $22.15 u hundred on a sale of r.35.000 pounds on the opening I day last yea r. |