in’g to Representative Abbitt. is to separate Virginia dark-fired ; tobacco and make it a separate "kind of tobacco" so far as deter mining marketing quotas and price supports is concerned. At present Type 21 is considered by the Department of Agriculture along with Types 22 and 23 in figuring acreage allotments and related statistics. Abbitt pointed out that this is Capitol Plant Bed Has Weeds The usual opposition from Ten nessee and Kentucky growers, speaking through their Congress men, is expected to offer stiff op position to Congressman Watkins M Abbitt's bill to put Virginia Type 21 dark-fired tobacco on its own feet as a distinct kind of to bacco. This time the Virginian’s bill has Department of Agricu'ture approval if agreement is reached in all dark leaf producing states freeing the fire-cured tobacco support program from burley to bacco. Xt is now supported at *75 per cent of the burley tobacco rate. Types 22 and 23 dark-fired to baccos, grown in Kentucky and Tennessee, have not had demand exp< ri< nc< ligl Vir in' leaf. Separated from the tie-in with burley and standing al<;n<\ Types 22 and 23 might face dif ficulties, and hence the opposi tion to the Abbitt bill. Even so. the Virginia effort at separating the types — a move Old Dominion growers -ay is long over-due on the basis of de mand is farther along than in any previous time.

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