The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-12-10
Opening Week Tobacco Sales
OF 9l3,8O6 Pounds Highest
In Decade; Average Is 1882
$50 600 Pounds
Monday Start
Second Big Week

. N
Monday morning with indications
Of another four days Of near
+ record offerings. poundage-wise,
About $4,000 pounds were on the
floor this morning.
More Of the better grades Of
leaf were seen and indications
were that the 1882 average es-
tablished for opening week VIII
hold under the stimulus Of buying
competition and better quality
The opening weeks 9l3.aOs
pounds was the highest of the last
Y eight years The general average
was exceeded only BY the S38 96 in
1851 and last year S S39.69
sun Cured Sales
\ Fui their first week offerings at
! Farnyille 81 748.056 pounds of
dark fired leaf. growers received
$3.50 672 70. an average OF S36.32.
!. This MAS Augmented by I65.750
pounds W sun-cured tobacco.
crossing S5367l and establishing
N 4 general floor average Of S32.38.
down slightly from the opening
week Of 1856 when the average
was S33.O8
\ For the first week, the combined
weight of dark-fired and sun
cured tobacco was 9l38 pounds
and the. gross sales amounted to
S3i0343
Belt-Wide Report
over OnefIfth of the 1857 eSti-
mated production Of Virginia fire
K cured tobacco was sold during
h opening week Of sales Weather
\ conditions have been good recently
I for preparing tobacco for market
and. consequently. growers offer
ed around twice as much volume
as during the first week la 1856
Average prices by grades differ
ed little from last season although
there was downward trend.
About l2oe of gross sales was de-
( liveled TO the associations under
the Government loan program.
This compares with 81 received
BY the associations in opening
! weck of 1856.
The Virginia Department of
Agriculture reports gross sales
during the week ended Dec. S
amounted To 2.068,060 pounds and
averaged 1885 per hundred This
return was a small decline of Acc
from the initial week last year
when l-0l0,769 pounds old for
s39.05 average.
Prices this year averaged Sl.00
to $500 pet hundred pounds lower
for most heavy grade leafs. Also,
7 some small decreases occurred for
low to good thin leaf and short
\ leaf. Better quality thin leaf was
TIP Sl0o OF $500 Lugs and non
Y descript held mainly unchanged
I Averages We're chiefly Sl00 to
$500 above their respective sup
\ port levels
Y The tobacco consisted OF larger
/ percentages of fair to fine quail
I ties than last season and less low
\ Greater proportions OF heavy and
short leaf and Tugs were on the
+ floors and a much smaller ratio
/ Of thin leaf Fair to fine heavy
leaf, low and fair Tugs. and fair
thin leaf made up the bulk OF
sales
/ The markets are scheduled to
close for Christmas holidays after
auctions OIL Dec 10 and viii re-
! opea Jan. 6. 1855.
+ Some good sales reported al the
( warehouses from the last days of
last week we're.
+ l. d. Jacobs and Whit. Farm
4 vile. $50 pounds for 1894 S, from
\ $50 10 500 tSun-cured salel: w. c.
\ Osborne, CurdSvile. 1874 pounds
for S748.94. from So 10 SOS, aver
aging $50
w. Fl ISaacS. Jr 5B2 pounds
from S37 10 $40. averaging S5773
Lewis Carwile & Son. 500 pounds.
from SAT TO sos, averaging S576a:
ET G.. JamerSon 81 Green. qq8
pounds, from s34 "a $50, avcrae-
ing $5456
! {. c. and W d. Harvey. 1912
pounds, from S3T Ia $50. averag-
ing Sh4.05, ID. r. Parsons. 726
pounds, from s35 to s62, avcrag-
ing S534l
!. A. Nash, TIA pounds, from
s34 to s62- averaging S5i and
James Wilson. TIA pounds, from