. The auction marketing of flue-cured tobacco : a preliminary appraisal. Tobacco Cooperative marketing. varying number of inspectors on the markets because of the trainees and substitutes. In markets with more than 1 set of buyers the inspectors can be shifted between the sets or 1 set may have more than another. This accounts for the fractional number on some markets and for the dots lying between the two lines and below the lower line. On 7 markets there were more than 3 inspectors and trainees assigned to them. The cost of inspection with 2 inspectors per set of buyers averages $3,500 for t
. The auction marketing of flue-cured tobacco : a preliminary appraisal. Tobacco Cooperative marketing. varying number of inspectors on the markets because of the trainees and substitutes. In markets with more than 1 set of buyers the inspectors can be shifted between the sets or 1 set may have more than another. This accounts for the fractional number on some markets and for the dots lying between the two lines and below the lower line. On 7 markets there were more than 3 inspectors and trainees assigned to them. The cost of inspection with 2 inspectors per set of buyers averages $3,500 for the season and with 3 inspectors the average is $4, 900, Figure 3 shows how the cost per hundred pounds of tobacco inspected is influenced by the volume sold per set of buyers. The heavy line shows the cost per hundred pounds for given volumes per set of buyers with the average number of inspectors and average salaries. The dots show the actual cost per hundred pounds inspected on each market. The variation from the line is due to the varying numbers and the difference in salaries on the several markets. The cost per hundred pounds declines rapidly from the smaller markets to the medium-sized markets, then more slowly. The average cost of inspection per 100 pounds for the markets of these 3 belts was 3. 6 cents a 100 pounds. With the average number of inspectors per set of buyers and the average salaries there would have to be 14 million pounds of tobacco sold per set of buyers to bring the cost down to the average. There were 28 markets with costs above the average and 19 at the average or below. The latter sold the larger volume of tobacco, bringing down the average. The average volume sold per set of buyers in 1951 was 13 million pounds. If the average had been increased to 16 million pounds, the same quantity could have been sold by 64 sets of buyers instead of 77. This would have resulted in a saving of over $200, 000 to the buying companies and one of over $45, 000 to the
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