
Mr. E. Y. Floyd, State Administrative Officer for North Caro- 
lina AAA, on left, and Mr. J. B. Hutson, President, Commodity 
Credit Corporation, and Associate War Food Administrator, on 
right, examining a plant selection in one of our tobacco disease 
breeding plots. Our tobacco disease specialist, Dr. C. H. Rogers, 
is shown in center. 
More Tobacco For 1944 
Associate Administrator J. B. Hutson, War 
Food Administration, climaxed his recent 
speech at a meeting of the North Carolina 
Farm Bureau Federation in Greenville by 
saying: 
“Stocks of tobacco held for the British 
manufacturers have now reached a low point 
and it is necessary this season to make normal 
purchases again for the British trade. It will 
probably be necessary to make normal pur- 
chases again next season. Cigarette consump- 
tion in this country has increased nearly 13 
per cent during the past twelve months. This 
figure does not include the tremendously 
expanding demand for cigarettes by the 
armed forces. In order to take care of this 
increased demand, it will be necessary to 
increase the flue-cured tobacco acreage next 
year. The size of the increase will depend in 
part on the fertilizer and labor available.” 
Reprinted from PROGRESSIVE FARMER, October 1943. 
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