Vance Favors

Vance Favors Ahbi t Rill To Separate Type 21 ' Speaking in favor of the p-oposed legislation that would separate Type 2! davk-fired tobacco from othe' types J B, Vance, president of Virgli mers t n n Isa d Vir ■i pounds less of Type 21 tobacco than used last yea 1 He told the tobacco sub-committe" rf House Agricultural Committee that 12.7 million pounds of Type 21 do k-f red tobacco were sold, but lb" fannc s raised only in.7 million pounds. “In the face of this favorable Ttw!” and disappearance situation, the 1957 allotments for Type 21 weed reduced by ten per cent." Vance complained. "I would like to point out.' said Vance, “that m addition to the ap proximately 1,000 acres of Type 21 taken out of production by the man datory ten per cent cut. an addi tional 1.351 ecres or about 15 per cent of the total 1957 allotted acre age have been taken out of produc tion through the Soil Bank Acreage Reserve P"ogram. This means something like 23 per cent less pro duction of Type 21 In 1957 than in 1956.” He continued by saying. “Now that there is a need for more Type 2! dark-fired tobacco, we certainly are entitled to grow it: and I do not believe it is the intent of the law to deny any farmer any where the p ivilege of growing ever v pound of tobacco the market will absorb And, yet that is exactly . what is happening in the case of Type 21 as the matter now stands." Vance said that the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 that re quires Type 21 to be grouped with types 22 and 23 “is working an ex treme hardship on the dark fired tobacco farmers of my State and has and is creating a situation which, in my opinion, is completely foreign to the ini eat and purpose of the tobacco program.” Vance explained that his interpre tation of the tobacco marketing quota and price support program has a two fold purpose; “First it is cl> signed to assist the producer in maintaining a reasonable balance between supply and demand, thus preventing the accumulation of