Tobacco Market Closes Thursday Volume Income Kelow Last Year Sales of the 1952 dark tobacco crop ended this week with a two day extension concluded Thurs day morning. Considering below-, normal quality of leaf and yields, the closing verdict was one of satisfaction. With Thursday's final sale in cluded. t tal poundage for the season, which opened December 1. reached 4.891.794 pounds. That is 481,000 pounds under last year's near-record results. The general average for dark fired leaf closed at $34.96, which is S3 54 per hundred pounds be low last year's closing average of $38 50. Sun-cured leaf, of which 730. 924 pounds were sold on the Farmville Market, closed with a general average of S29 65. That also is under last year by $4.20. A total of 4.160 870 pounds of dark-fired tobacco was auctioned in the market's three warehouses this season. Last year the dark fired poundage total was 4.669.980. Cash receipts for growers amounted to $1,454.820 82 for dark-fin d sales, and $216,729.02 for sun-c ned leaf. Together they total $1,671.549 84 That is $364. 320.10 below last year's total sales income. F,nd of the selling period is but a ripple in the busy routine of the tobacco fanner. The endless chores now turns to plant, beds and nurture of t’.ie 1953 crop. That's a considerable task and. viewed from the results this year, can be hurt considerably by un favorable v rather. Students Of Colleges To Conduct Service For Day Of Prayer World's Student Christian Fed erations Universal Day of Prayer for Students will be observed at the Sunday night scivice of the Farmville Methodist Church. The service will be held ot 8 p. m. in Jarman Hall. Longwood College and Hamp den-Sydney College students will present talks and special music. The Wesley Foundation Choir will sing The World's Student Christian Federation is made up of college students of all denominations throughout the world. This Uni versal Day of Prayer for Students has been an annual service of the federation since 1898. Students lrom 50 countries will take part in the observance, which will be based upon the idea of the unity m spirit of students throughout the world.

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