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The 1948 national marketing quota of 21.8 million pounds for dark air- 
cured (types 35-36) will mean a 25 percent reduction in individual farm allot- 
ments. Support prices for the 1948 crop will be two-thirds those for Burley. 
The United States Department of Agriculture suggested a 1948 goal of 
2,800 acres for the non-quota dark air-cured type (Virginia sun-cured, type 37). 
This is the same as 1947 harvested acreage which was 2.6 percent lower than 1946. 
Table 5.- Dark tobacco: Domestic supplies, disappearance, and 
season average price, average 1934-38, 
annual 
- - 
1939-47 1/ 

• 
Di sappearance: 
Average 
Year 
Pro duct: or 
l : Stocks : 
Total ; 
year beginning: price per 
: October 1 : 
supply : 
October 1 : 
pound 
— 
Million 
Million 
Fill ion 
Million 
oounds 
pounds 
pounds 
pounds 
Cents 
■ Fil 
e-cured 
Total types 
21-24 ) 
Average 
1934-38 
110.2 
194.2' 
304.4 
123.0 
10.2 
1939 
[ 99.3 
136.2 
235.5 
93.9 
10.6 
1940 
-| /a/ r-- 
106. 5 
141.6 
243.1 
64.2 
9.5 
1941 
69.7 
183.9 
2^3.6 
69.0 
14.1 
1942 
71.5 
184.6 
256.1 
76.3 
17.1 
1943 
64.9 
179.8 
244.7 
71.2 
23.4 
1944 
: 66.1 
173 . 5 
239.6 
107.8 
24.5 
1945 
58.3 
131.8 
190.1 
85.2 
31.5 
1946 2/ 
: 109.8 
104.9 
214.7 
71.5 
26.0 
1947 2/ 
91.3 
143.2 
234 .5 
Dark 
air-cured 
Total types 
35-37 : 
Average 
1934^-38 
35.5 
62.8 
98.3 
39.0 
9.4 
1939 
: 44.2 
56.1 
100.3 
34.7 
7.3 
•1940 
42.5 
65.6 
108.1 
33.6 
7.7 
1941 
! 31.5 
74.5 
106.0 
42.0 
12.0 
1942 
i ■ 35.2 
64.0 
99.2 
33.9 
15.2 
1943 
i 30.0 
65.3 
95.3 
37.6 
27.2 
1944 
44.9 
57.7 
102.6 
42.2 
23.3 
1945 
43.6 
60.4 
104.0 
43.6 
25.2 
1946 2/ 
48.7 
60.4 
109.1 
36.4 
22.5 
1947 2/ 
: 41.0 
72,7 
113.7 
1/ Farm- sales weight. 
2/ Preliminary. 
