TOBACCO-VIRGINIA FIRE-CURED AND SUN-CURED 4- JUL 1 -9175 COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE EIGHTY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 5002 and H. R. 7259 APRIL 10, 11, MAY 1, AND 22, 1957 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture Serial P UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1957 1057 CONTENTS H. R. 5002. A bill relating to marketing quotas and price supports for H. R. 7259 (supersedes H. R. 5002). A bill relating to marketing quotas Statement of Bartholomew, Paul, Charlotte County Farm Bureau. Davis, Roy B., Jr., president, Virginia Farm Bureau Federation. Page 1 123 33 10 27 56 Ellis, Frank R., Tobacco Division, Commodity Stabilization Service, 117 Ellis, Holmes, general manager, Western Dark Fired Tobacco Growers 89 Ford, James, a farmer, Amelia County, Va 33 Fort, Josiah, president, Rudolph, Hach & Co., Clarksville, Tenn... 107 120 4 Hall, Thomas B., general manager, Virginia Dark Fired Tobacco Hammack, R. A., general manager, Eastern Dark Fired Tobacco Harrison, Hon. Burr P., a Representative in Congress from the State Hazelgrove, Joe, a grower, Farmville, Va. Lindsey, R. A., representing the George W. Helme Co., Lynchburg, Lloyd, Arthur Y., executive secretary, Burley & Dark Leaf Tobacco Maloney, Clarence W., president, Stemming District Tobacco Associa- Moses, Hon. Charles T., member, Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and president of the Virginia Dark Fired Tobacco Association_. 62 Natcher, Hon. William H., a Representative in Congress from the 69 42 Roberts, Phil, vice president, United States Tobacco Co., Hopkinsville, Ky. 104 Robertson, Mott, secretary-treasurer and general manager of Virginia, Taylor, Arch, Winston-Salem, N. C............. Tuck, Hon. William M., a Representative in Congress from the Fifth Welch, Jack, first vice president and chairman, Kentucky Farm Williams, Joseph R., Director, Tobacco Division, Commodity Stabi- 101 65, 111 100 Analysis of draft of a bill (H. R. 7259) relating to marketing quotas and price supports for fire-cured, dark air-cured, and Report on H. R. 5002, by Hon. True D. Morse, Under Secretary, TOBACCO-VIRGINIA FIRE-CURED AND SUN-CURED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1957 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, in room 414, Old House Office Building, at 10 a. m., Hon. Watkins M. Abbitt (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Subcommittee members present: Representatives Abbitt (presiding), McMillan, Watts, Bass, Jennings, Matthews, McIntire, and Tewes. Staff members present: Mabel C. Downey, clerk. Also present: Senator Cooper and Representatives Tuck, Poff, Harrison, and Natcher. Mr. ABBITT. The subcommittee will be in order. The purpose of the hearing today is to have a hearing on H. R. 5002. At this point, without objection, H. R. 5002 will be made a part of the record. (The bill follows:) [H. R. 5002, 85th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL Relating to marketing quotas and price supports for Virginia fire-cured and sun-cured tobacco Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 301 (b) (15) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding the following proviso to the last paragraph thereof: "Provided, further, That, beginning with the 1958 crop, Virginia fire-cured tobacco, type 21, shall be treated as a 'kind of tobacco'." SEC. 2. Section 2 of the Act of July 28, 1945 (59 Stat. 506) is amended by adding the following proviso: “Provided, That, beginning with the 1957 crop, these provisions shall not be applicable to Virginia fire-cured tobacco, type 21." Mr. ABBITT. The bill has a twofold purpose. Fire-cured tobacco, as you all know, is treated as a kind of tobacco, and it is composed of three types of tobacco: 21 raised in central Virginia; 22 raised in Tennessee and some in Kentucky, and 23 raised in Kentucky and a little 24. The purpose of the bill is to provide that type 21, Virginia fire-cured tobacco be treated as a separate kind of tobacco so far as marketing quotas and allotments are concerned. The second section deals with the support price. Under the present law, dark-fired tobacco is supported, as I understand it, at 75 percent of burley. 1 |