1042 



GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



needed to help ease the undoing of what has been done under guise of 

 helping in the war effort for the people in the area if income from tung 

 is lost or seriously endangered. 

 (The information is as follows:) 



Exhibit A 



[As reported by Agricultural Statistician, USDA] 

 Tung nuts: Production, price, and value in commercial States, 1939-48 



Season 



Mississippi 



Louisiana ' 



Florida 



Georgia - Alabama ■ 



Total 5 

 States 



PRODUCTION 

 [Tons] 



1939.. 

 1940.. 

 1941.. 

 1942.. 

 1943.. 

 1944. . 

 1945.. 

 1946.. 

 1947.. 

 1948 3 



425 



3,700 



3,700 



7,200 



1,940 



10, 630 



15,690 



23, 800 



25, 000 



29,000 



150 



1,200 



1,800 



4,000 



3, 260 



7,550 



10, 750 



15, 200 



15. 500 



18, 500 



550 



4,700 



2, 250 



3,700 



700 



7,000 



8, 400 



15, 000 



11,000 



17,000 



15 



1,200 

 650 

 950- 

 200 

 800 



1,100 



1,800 

 900 



1,200 



20 



200 



350 



500 



100 



700 



1,140 



1, fiOO 



800 



1,500 



1,160 

 11, 000 



8,750 

 16,350 



6,200 

 26,680 

 37, 080 

 57, 400 

 53, 200 

 07, 200 



SEASON AVERAGE PRICE PER TON RECEIVED BY GROWERS 

 [Dollars] 



VALUE OF PRODUCTION 



[Thousands of dollars] 



1939. 

 1940. 

 1941. 

 1942 

 1943 

 1944 

 1945 

 1946 

 1947 

 1948 



2 

 90 

 93 

 136 

 29 

 146 

 220 

 328 

 112 

 148 



49 



660 



773 



1,601 



614 



2,730 



3,667 



5,564 



3,452 



3,677 



> Includes small quantities of tung nuts produced in Texas. 



2 To avoid the possibility of disclosing individual mill operations the prices and values for Georgia and 

 ilabama have been eombiiied under Georgia. 



3 All 1948 figures are ])reliminary. 



