The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1957-12-17
Tobacco Markets Top Price Now SIS;
Experimental Leaf Sold Here Friday
Market TO Close
After Thursday
Sale For Holidays

The Farmille Tobacco Market
has auctioned .5O072 pounds of
dark-fiicd leaf and 566 1856 pounds
lof sun-cured tobacco about one
third Of expected sales in the first
two weeks
The second week OF sales, which
ended last Thursday. added more
than half-million pounds. while at
the same time bringing an improve
ment in general floor averages for
both dark-fired and sun-cured leaf
auctions.
Advances. topped BY two sales
Of AlF wrapper leaf at SIS. for
red cigar leaf. and better quality
offerings. improved the dark fired
average for the week by Sl.34 to
500 .66.
The sun-cured average last week
improved by Sl86 and was S34 "a
after Thursdays final sale for the
week.
christmas closing
Auctions, this week Will be the
last until after Christmas The
markets over the belt will reopen
Monday, Jan. &.
For the first two weeks, growers
have received S468.270 for dark
fired leaf sales. plus S97 1866 more
for their sun-cmed offerings. Both
poundage and receipts figures are
we'll III excess Of those for last
years first two weeks.
The AlF asles of SIS We're s.
higher than the previous top AUG
ton Of first quality heavy and thin
brown leaf has been bringing $40.
bat Thursday was the first sale of
So, leaf.
New High Set
Russell Harvey and Roach, OF
Cullen, and Leslie Davenport.
Route 3, Farmville. " ere the
growers whose leaf, graded AlF.
brought SIS.
Davenport sold 500 pounds for
S478.84, from s3l to SIS. The aver
age was S53 ,39 The Harvey and
Roach sale was 1928 POUNDS for
S764 so. ranging from $34 to SIS
with the average being S57 50
Last year. the second week
auctions averaged Sil63. and that
figure established a new high for
the Farnville Market since official
government records were started
IN 1880
That average was $l97 higher
than for last weeks comparable
period for the 1857 crop auctions,
The crop this year has support
price average peg Of $3.50 per
hundredweight higher than last
year. too.
\ Belt Report
/ The market was little stronger
for Virginia fire-cured tobacco dur
lng the week ending December IL
compared with opening week
Volume OF sales was classed as
medium. Quality Of offerings i'm
proved. Associations receipts de-
clincd and were around nine per
cent of the weeks gross volume.
About II per cent of seasons turn
over has gone under loan.
The Virginia Department Of Agri-
culture reports gross sales for the
week totaled 1889 .602 pounds and
averaged S40.Ol per hundred. This
average topped the first weeks by
81 80. Season sales have amounted
to 3,457 ,662 pounds averaging $50 20.
Corresponding sales last year were
2,06l 1861 pounds for a $4027 aver
age.
Increases in average prices of
81 to So per hundred occurred for
several grades Of Tugs. thin leaf.
and short leaf Heavy leaf was firm
but nondescript declined 80 cents
to Sl,75. Wrappers held unchanged
and averaged $53 to 500.
| Growers put larger percentages
Of fine and choice qualities on the
market. Thin leaf continued TO be
sold in unusually small quantities.
Principal offerings consisted Of fair
to fine heavy leaf. low and ialr