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Ajj auction scene 



Courtesy of the University of Kentucky, 



Collepe of AKriculture 



pounds ot Burle\— 11.6 million pounds or so pretty 

 evenly from Indiana and Ohio and about 1.4 million 

 from Tennessee— to be sold in Kentueky auction warc- 

 liouses. 



Warehouse sales of the fire-cured t\pes on 12 floors 

 in three markets yielded about $7 million for about 13.2 

 million pounds. Over 8.2 million pounds of the One 

 Sucker tvpe brought over 3.8 million through the 21 

 sales warehouses of four markets. 0\er 4.8 million 

 pounds of Green Ri\er tobacco sold in the 15 ware- 

 houses of three markets for more than $2 million. There 

 was the usual across-the-border movement of fire-cured 

 and dark-air t\pes into and from Kentuck)' for auction 

 selling. The cash receipts total from sales of Kentuck\- 

 tobacco represents 74 per cent of the \alue of all farm 

 cash crops grown in the state. 



Among the ncarl\- 400 Kentuckv firms and indi\ iduals 

 that buy, sell, process, sort or otherwise handle tobacco 



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