16— Lancaster Fanning, Friday, April 27, 1956 ,
USDA Announces 1956 Tobacco Loan
Program; Pennsylvania not Included
" Washington —■(usda)
The' U. S. Department of Agri
culture announced a 1956-crop
price support loan program
the minimum pents-per-pound
loan levels at which
'specified kinds of tobacco will
/ibe -supported Price support is
mandatory in 1956 under the
Act of 1949.
j • Loans will be available on 1956
1 crop Burley, flue-cured, Mary
land, and cigar filler and cigar
[binder tobacco at 90 per cent*
4 Of parity. Loans on fire-cured
toacco will be at 75 per cent of
the Burley rate, and on dark air- '
Minimum price support average loan levels for 1956 (percent
agewise and cents per pound) and the 1955 levels are as follows:
" 1955 Average ' 1956 JVlinmum
Loan Level 1956 Per cent ’of Average
(Cents per lb.) Parity Level Loan Level
(Cents per lb.)
Flue-cured, Types 11-14 48.3 90 48.2
Burley, Type 31 46 2 - 90 47.2
Fire-cured, Types 21-23 34.6 75% of Burley rate 35.4
Dark air-cured, Types 35-36 30 866-2-3% of Burley rate 31.5
Va. Sun-cured, Type 37 30 866-2-3% of Burley rate 31 5
Maryland, Type 32 No support 90 _ 46.2
Cigar filler and binder: 90
Ohio filler, Types 42-44 24 7 - 23 0
Conn Broadleaf, Type 51 53 9 516
Conn Hav Seed, Type 52 50.8 48.3
N Y & Pa Hav. Seed,
Type 53 25.0 -- 23 3
Southern Wise, Type 54 24 5 22 6
Northern Wise, Type 55 32 0 29.0
Puerto Rican, Type 46 will be announced as of Oct. 1, 1956
This Year . . ♦
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»E lEACON MILLING COMPANY. INC., CAYUGA, N.Y. YORK. PA. LAUREL. DEL. EASTPORI. N. Y.
J. M. Bomherger
Farmers Supply Co.
137-39 E. KING ST.,’LANCASTER
Paul H. Gehman
Fred L. & John E. Homsher
STRASBURG AND QUARRYVILLE
cured and Virginia sun-cured at
66-2-3 per cent of the Burley
rate. These percentage levels are
mandatory under existing law.
The minimum cents-per-pound
average Ipan levels at which the
various types (except Puerto
Rican) will be supported are list
ed heie. These average loan
levels are based on parity prices
as of March 15, 1956. The acttual
suppoit level w’ll be the mini
mum shown or the level com
puted as of the beginning of the
marketing year (July 1, 1956, in
the case of flue-cured;- October
ELM
DENVER
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.combines maximum feeding economy with
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O. Kenneth McCracken
Millport Roller Mills
Osceola Flour Mills
GORDONVILLE
Tfenger’s Feed Mill, Inc.
RHEEMS
1, £956,, , for- all other types)
-whichever is higher. " The per
cent of parity and the cents-per
pbtuncl average loan level of sup
port for { Puerto Rican tobacco
will be anriounced prior to the
planting season which com
mences after Oct. 1, 1956.
Price support will be made
available J to growers of eligible
tobacco through grower associa
tions on the basis' of official
standard grades -at a specified
rate for each grade. However,
price support will not be made
available on tobacco produced on
any farm where more than one
kind of tobacco is produced un
less the acreage harvested of
each kind of tobacco is within
the applicable acreage allotment
established for the farm. ■
Growers of Pennsylvania
Seedleaf tobacco will not
receive price support, since
they disapproved marketing
quotas on the 1956 crop.
. ' 959 Million Pounds
With the exception of Puerto
Rican tobacco, marketing quotas
are in effect orvall tobacco listed
here. Marketing quotas have
not been-proclaimed for Puerto
Rican, tobacco since supplies are
not in excess of the “reserve sup
ply level” as defined in the Agri
cultural: Adjustment Act of 1938
’ CCC jias operated tobacco loan
or purchase each year
singe 1936 Since that time, al
most 4 8 billion lbs of tobacco has
been pledged by growers as col
lateral for non-recourse loans or
purchased -(largely during the
war years) by CCC. Dollar value
of these transactions has been
about two billion dollars.
As of February 29, 1956, tobac-
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MANHEIM
LITITZ
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3 Bone cavities 151l £ iuted
18 Nostril
17 Measure of i 8 Annoyed 32
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18 Forebode horse 35 Foot covering
20 Parent 22 Code - 40 Chills
21 Precise 24 The —— I* Us 41 Wash
23 Above official 42 First man
25 Raised 31 Above (Bib.)
platform
28 Secrete
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measure (ab.)
28 Butterfly
29 Pronoun
30 Plural (ab.)
31 State
33 Fondles
36 Weed
37 Western state
38 Bone
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with malt
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53 Window
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1 Moist
2 Exists
3 Box
4 Recent (suffix)
co pledged for loans totaled 959
million lbs on a packed weight
basis. These stocks included 445
million lbs of.flue-cured, 392 mil
lion lbs of Burley, 86 million lbs
of fire-cured and dark air-cured,
10 million lbs of Maryland, and
26 million lbs of other types.
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PEDESTRIAN DEATHS,
A preliminary survey,, con*
ducted by the American Auto
mobile Association, showed that
only 7,482 -pedestrians died ia
1955, 400 fewer than in the pre
vious year. In 1937, 15,500 pe
destrians were killed an all
time record.
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