the sold tobacco is trucked to the 26 rehandhng plants 

 and stemmeries in Virginia. Then, after being cleansed 

 and initially processed, the hogsheads of leaf are trans- 

 ported to numerous storage sheds for the long sleep 

 nature requires to mellow the leaf. 



For the produce of their fields the tobacco farmers of 

 Virginia received about $87 million in 1959. That repre- 

 sents 18.7 percent of the cash receipts from all farm com- 

 modities produced within the state in the same year. The 

 percentage would be more than doubled when related 

 only to cash crops rather than to all farm commodities. 



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irginia leaf goes places 



Much Virginia-grown tobacco is fed into the hoppers 

 of machines in factories in the state. Some of it is ex- 

 ported. Foreign markets, chiefly the United Kingdom, 

 West Germany and Australia, took an estimated 42.4 

 million pounds of Virginia flue-cured in 1959. An esti- 

 mated 4.6 milUon pounds of Virginia fire-cured and 

 sun-cured leaf, worth more than $3 million, went mainly 

 to Norway, with lesser quantities to the United King- 

 dom, West Germany and elsewhere in the 1958-1959 

 period. 



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aklng" macliiiies keep rolling 



Leaf production, auction sales and exports, important 

 as they are in the state's overall tobacco industry, do 

 not represent the major commercial phases of Virginia's 



