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Table 12. — Tobacco production in the tri-State area and deliveries to the associa- 

 tion, oy States, 1922-1925 



State 



Total production i 



Deliveries to association 



Percentage of crop deliv- 

 ered to association 





1922 



1923 



1924 



1925 



1922 



1923 



1924 



1925 



1922 



1923 



1924 



1925 



Virginia 



1,000 



lbs. 



154, 950 



1,000 



lbs. 



148, 760 



1,000 



lbs. 



133, 770 



1,000 



lbs. 



126, 148 



1,000 

 lbs. 

 83, 353 



1,000 

 lbs. 



77, 490 



1,000 

 lbs. 



56, 769 



1,000 



lbs. 



38, 099 



53.79 



52.09 



42.44 



30.20 







North Carolina: 



New belt... 



Old belt.. 



140, 500 

 112, 000 



236, 300 

 173, 200 



143, 180 

 131, 990 



248, 402 

 127, 863 



27, 334 

 36, 976 



33, 950 

 41, 171 



12, 160 

 23,836 



12, 810 

 13, 001 



19.45 

 33.01 



14.37 

 23.77 



8.49 



18.06 



5.16 



10.17 







Total North 

 Carolina 



252, 500 



409, 500 



275, 170 



376, 265 



64,310 



75, 121 



35, 996 



25,811 



25.47 



18.34 



13.08 



6.86 



South Carolina 



54, 400 



74, 460 



45, 590 



71, 040 



15, 927 



27, 527 



11, 076 



19, 724 29. 28 



36.97 



24.30 



27.76 



Total 



461, 850 



632, 720 



454, 530 



573, 453 



163, 590 



180, 138 



103, 841 



83,634 35.42 



28.47 



22.85 



14.58 











> U. S. Department of Agriculture, Yearbooks, 1923-1926. 



Records of the association were analyzed further to ascertain 

 whether the unexpectedly small deliveries in certain districts were 

 due to lower average deliveries per member or to deliveries from a 

 smaller number of members. Table 13 shows the approximate num- 

 ber of members who delivered, each year, by pool areas. It will be 

 seen that, in 1922, member defections were very heavy in the eastern 

 Carolina pool. In the other pools nearly all members delivered. 

 After the first year, however, the number of members declined 

 rapidly, especially in the eastern Carolina territory, where only 15 

 per cent of the registered members delivered in 1925. 



A comparison of the percentage of members delivering in 1922 

 with the percentage of deliveries to production in Table 12 leads to 

 the conclusion either that a large number of members delivered only 

 part of their crop or that the members signed up by the association 

 did not include many large producers. The disparity between the 

 percentages is probably due to both causes. From a sample of 200 

 deliveries at each of six different warehousing centers, however, no 

 tendency was found for individual members to deliver smaller 

 volumes of tobacco during the last two years. 



Table 14 shows the percentages of members who delivered tobacco 

 to the association each year, according to a sample survey which was 

 made at four markets, in 1922, on the basis of 200 members at each 

 market. The data showed that there was a decrease in the number 

 of members delivering but not that those members delivering actu- 

 ally delivered a smaller proportion of their crops or grew less 

 tobacco. 



