JANUARY 1948 
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above January a year ago. Production in 1947 io nov ostinated at 38 million 
pounds compared with the high of 47 million pounds in l$k6 9 Total supplies 
for 1948, including that part of the 1°46 crop otill held by farmers arc 
around 84 million pounds, about 5 percent above 19^7. 
Tabic 4, - Maryland tobaccos Domestic supplies, disappearance, and 
season average prices, average 193^-38 annual 
1939-47 1/ 
j Disappearance 
Total :ycar beginning 
supply :Jan. 1 of the 
: : following yr. 
Year 
Average 
1934-38 
1939 
19^0 
1941 
1942 
19^3 
19*4 
19^5 
1946 
1947 
Production 
Million 
pounds 
33.4 
l/ Parm- sales weight, 
2/ Preliminary. 
Stocko 
January 1 of 
following year 
Million 
pounds 
Million 
pounds 
Million 
pounds 
Average 
price 
per 
poun d 
Cents 
27.5 
3S.4 
65.9 
27.5 
19.7 
32.8 
36o3 
69.I 
25.9 
21.1 
32,6 
43.2 
75.8 
30.8 
33.0 
31.2 
45.0 
76.2 
28.5 
30.1 
56.5 
23,1 
47.7 
75.8 
32.0 
20,8 
43,8 
64.6 
27.0 
^5.3 
^8,2 
37.6 
75.8 
29.3 
55.5 
18.4 
46.5 
64.9 
32.5 
57.0 
47.0 
32.4 
79.^ 
44.3 
Maryland tobacco disappearance during 1947 is estimated at 3^ million 
pounds. Of this, 7 aillion pounds ircrc exported and about 27 million pounds 
were consumed in the United States, imports were nearly the came as last year, 
but domestic consumption is estimated at a little higher. Maryland tobacco 
consumption is largely in cigarettes, and the record of cigarotte manufacture 
in 1947 contributed to larger than prewar quantities of Maryland used. Cigarette 
production and consumption is expected to continuo high. Most of tho 19^7 
Maryland crop will bo marketed frcm April to August 1943. 
The 1946 crop averaged 44.3 cents per pound, about one-fifth lower than 
the average price received in both 1944 and 1945, 
The United States Department of Agriculturo has sugg03tcd a 1948 Maryland 
tobacco gcal of 40,800 acres. This is 15 percent below the 1947 harvested ucrcagc. 
