Harvesting Biirley tobacco 



Courtesy of University of Kentucky, 

 College of Agriculture 



—sold a maximum 1,260 baskets in a three-and-a-half- 

 hour daily period. Auction houses that sold on a pound- 

 age basis were limited to 340,200 pounds a day— the 

 allowable maximum is 1,800 baskets— for each group of 

 buyers. 



When the final figures were in they showed that 

 341,090,000 pounds of the producers' 1971 Burley crop 

 had been sold with a value of $276,889,000-an average 

 price of $81.18 per hundred pounds. 



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tlier markets, other types 



Sales across state lines are part of the selling pattern. 

 In this category was a total of some 7.2 million pounds 

 of 1971 Kentucky Burley. Over two-thirds was sold in 

 Tennessee; more than 2,000,000 pounds in Indiana. 

 Boundarv state farmers sent in around 13.2 million 



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