the tobacco displayed in this manner, buyers andgraders can pull a sample very easily 

 by grasping a handful of butts. Experience in the 1962 season indicates that the samples 

 of tobacco are usually thrown back on the piles with little disturbanceto the pile. 

 After the tobacco is sold, the knit-paper sheet is again used to secure the package 

 in preparation for shipment to storage or processing plants. 



The new looseleaf package helps to prevent folded leaves and broken midribs, 

 which are often found in the conventional looseleaf packages if the leaves are loose, 

 tangled, and folded, they may be broken by pressure in transit when loads are stacked 

 10 to 15 feet high as shown in figure 3. 



Figure 3 



Results of the Market Test 



A total of 273 experimental looseleaf packages (36,753 pounds) of types 11(a), 

 11(b), and 13 tobaccos were placed on auctions for market testing during the 1962 

 season. The packages were sold during a 5-day experimental sales period for loose- 

 leaf tobacco conducted by the Department of Agriculture at the beginning of the 1962 

 marketing season. In the warehouses, packages of frame-packedtobacco in knit-paper 

 sheets were intermingled with the traditional round-packed baskets in the sales rows. 

 The auction warehouses cooperating in the experiment were located in Lake City, 

 Dillon, and Pamplico, S.C.; Fuquay- Varina, N.C.; and Danville, Va. 



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