. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture. 212 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. the grower receives for 350 pounds. The wholesale distributor is included in the chain of middlemen because he handles a considerable amount of tobacco. Distrilsution of price receivec for case of 350 ITds . of tolDacco. 1917. Manufacturer pays $ ^>.. Dealer's margin over expenses of sorting, casing, shrinkage, storing and selling Dealer's ••profit'* |105 Total expenses of handling, packing and selling Dealer's expense |42 Landowner's profit—$ Cost of production-&qu
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture. 212 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. the grower receives for 350 pounds. The wholesale distributor is included in the chain of middlemen because he handles a considerable amount of tobacco. Distrilsution of price receivec for case of 350 ITds . of tolDacco. 1917. Manufacturer pays $ ^>.. Dealer's margin over expenses of sorting, casing, shrinkage, storing and selling Dealer's ••profit'* |105 Total expenses of handling, packing and selling Dealer's expense |42 Landowner's profit—$ Cost of production-" 5 Farmer receives $ Fig. 19.— Sun-grown tobacco. Analysis of spread between grower and manufacturer on case of 350 pounds, 1917. Needless to say the figures are assumptions based on averages. Farmers' Prices for Shade-grown Tobacco. The shade-grown industry is peculiar in that the crop is largely produced by large sjmdicates and manufacturers. The American Sumatra Company has 1,500 acres in shade tobacco in Connecticut and Massachusetts. This company raises its own tobacco, sorts, packs and sells directly to manufac- turers. The same is true of practicallj^ all the large syndicates. As previously stated, tobacco grown on contract by the farmer in 1917 ranged from 75 cents to $ in the bundle, with the bulk at 85 cents. The range for the previous years was from 60 to 80 cents a pound, with the average at about 70 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974
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