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H. R. 768. A bill to amend the Soil Bank Act with respect to its applica-

tion to producers of flue-cured tobacco---

H. R. 769. A bill to amend the Agricultural Trade Development and

Assistance Act, 1954, to require the sale abroad at world market prices

of 150 million pounds of tobacco___

Statement of—

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Davis, Roy B., Jr., president of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation_

Manning, Houston, farmer, South Carolina..

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Martin, Robert H., information director, South Carolina Farm

Bureau..

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Natcher, Hon. William H., a Representative in Congress from the

State of Kentucky---

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Owen, Robert A., Director, Tobacco Division, Foreign Agricultural

Service__.

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Scott, Hon. Ralph J., a Representative in Congress from the State of
North Carolina_

Williams, Joseph R., Director, Tobacco Division, Commodity Stabili-

zation Service, USDA; B. G. Andrews, Chief, Program Analysis

Branch, USDA; and Robert A. Owen, Director, Tobacco Division,

Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA.

Vance, John B., president, Virginia Farmers Union.

Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by-

Abbitt, Hon. Watkins M.:

Flue-cured tobacco: Allotted acreage, 1956 and 1957, by States,

and soil bank participation in 1957 through March 1, 1957----

McMillan, Hon. John L.:

Agnew, E. H., president, South Carolina Farm Bureau, Inc.,

Columbia, S. C., letter of January 4, 1957.

Aston, Andrew C., Latta, S. C., letter of December 4, 1956---

Atkinson, John H. Jr., Myrtle Beach, S. C., letter of January 5,

1957.

Atkinson, T. C. Jr., Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957-.

Battle, James A., Nichols, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957.

Baxley, Thomas, Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957-

Bullard, K. O., Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957.

Darr, E. A., president, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-

Salem, N. C., letter of December 4, 1956, to Hon. Watkins M.

Abbitt..

Elvington, P. L., Tobacco Grange committee chairman, Nichols,

S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957--

Final figures for 1956 tobacco sales released__

Gourdin, Virginia (Miss), Charleston, S. C., letter of March 10,

1957-

Harrelson, William L., South Carolina commissioner of agricul-

ture, telegram of January 14, 1957.

Holliday, Joseph W., and John M. J., Galivantsferry, S. C.,

telegram of March 14, 1957__

Kirby, John M., South Carolina House of Representatives,

Mullins, S. C., letter of December 5, 1956..

Loris Tobacco Board of Trade, Loris, S. C., telegram of December

6, 1956__

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McClam, Robert L., Columbia, S. C., letter..

Morris, Mrs. C. W., Salters, S. C., letter..

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Phillips, Marvin, Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957-

Pineland Grange, Latta, S. C., letter of December 31, 1956–.

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Additional data submitted to the subcommittee by-Continued
McMillan, Hon. John L.-Continued

Ramm, H. H., general counsel, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.,
Winston-Salem, N. C., letter of December 4, 1956_-
Receipts from Federal, State, and municipal taxes on tobacco
products in the United States, fiscal year 1955–56---.
Sloan, Garland, Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957.
South Carolina Tobacco Warehouse Association, telegram of
March 13, 1957, to Hon. J. L. McMillan...

Steedley, J. H., Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957-
The Farmer From Quietude-Tobacco Long Has Provided South
Carolina With Issue, from the Charleston, S. C., News and
Courier, of February 3, 1957__.

Watson, Ínez, clerk of the House of Representatives of South
Carolina, a concurrent resolution___.

Wiggins, E. J., Jr., Marion, S. C., telegram of March 12, 1957-.

Natcher, Hon. William H.:

Counties in the Second Congressional District of Kentucky par-

ticipating in the 1957 bank acreage reserve program..

Counties in the Second Congressional District of Kentucky par-

ticipating in the 1956 bank acreage reserve program together

with the 1957 allotted acreage for dark air-cured and dark fire-

cured tobacco_.

Resolutions adopted at Hopkinsville meeting of the executive

committees of the Three Dark Tobacco Associations, February

20, 1957.

Owen, Robert A., Director, Tobacco Division of the Foreign Agri-

cultural Service:

Agreements signed under title I of Public Law 480 providing for

the sale of United States tobacco, as of March 15, 1957...

Tobacco in soil-bank program, 1957: Estimated cost of placing
tobacco cut under marketing quota for 1957 in soil bank....

United States: Exports of unmanufactured tobacco, average,

1935-39; annual, 1955 and 1956___.

United States tobacco exports, December 1956, with comparisons_

Scott, Hon. Ralph J.:

Flue-cured tobacco: Assumed purchase requirements for filter and
nonfilter cigarette manufacture (chart).

Flue-cured tobacco: Comparison of actual supply with computed
reserve supply level (chart).

Allocation of funds and value of 1956 crop for basic commodities

in 1957 acreage reserve program.

Vance, John B., president, Virginia Farmers Union: