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the tenant 3 cents per pound. The dealer's cost of packing and sellmg, 

 inchiding the packer's salary and commission for buying, was 12 cents per 

 pound. Adding to this the 29 cents paid the farmer we have a total cost 

 to the dealer of 41 cents per pound. The average price received by the 

 dealer per pound of tobacco was 71 cents. Hence the dealer's " profit " 

 was 30 cents a pound. Naturally this situation cannot be continued in- 

 definitely. These were war years. Moreover, there were many variations. 



Table 39. — Sun-grown Tobacco, 1917. Estimated Average Cost and 

 Spread per Pound, Grower to Manufacturer. 



In the last analysis each tobacco handler pays his expenses and takes his 

 profits out of the tobacco he handles. If we think of these items being 

 paid in tobacco rather than in money the above facts may be presented 

 from a different point of view. The farmer delivers to the local packer a 

 case of tobacco of 350 pounds. The local packer or dealer takes the equiv- 

 alent of 203 pounds, which represents the cost of packing, sweating, shrink- 

 age, storage, transportation and other expenses from the time the tobacco 

 reaches his hands until he receives his final check. The amount delivered 

 to the wholesale distributor is 147 pounds. The wholesale distributor 

 takes 30 pounds of the 147, so that the manufacturer receives only 117 

 pounds. The difference between 350 and 117 pounds, or 233 pounds, 

 represents the cost of marketing tobacco in its natural or unmanufactured 

 state. In other wor ds, the manufacturer pays as much for 117 pounds as 



