minutes; set one tray, 0.5 minute; transfer one tray _ _ ..;_ *
to hatcher, 2.2 minutes; take off chicks from one tray, i `i``“ "` _ _     ' ‘ \ I { i _
3.0 minutes; clean one tray, 6.0 minutes; make one   I Q " *`t,, J   g VI Typ __
‘ box, 2.6 minutes.           `          
J Intensive study and development of improvements i       A l ._  t g 6V 'Y `.`.`   ?Y
.._ _ _ _ _ _ ,3 Q     r gr . _.   _zr!1 _
L in work 1Ir€[hOCls I`€dL1C€d ll1€ \\'Oll< U1U€ ol $€V€Uil l,*._._    `- ` `K; "ql; 
operations. The following comparisons are between ’ ° ° `   Y     -
L the 7}'Llt7Ili7117.fl/L time found in the survey and the time _;       . ,    
· taken in the same hatchery after new methods were ‘     \\—,,_.    g
c introduced. '1`raying time was reduced from 6.7 V     6     .»..   Y
minutes to 3.-1 minutes; setting time from 0.3 minute   .   ;t‘p     ‘      
* to 0.19 minute; and box-making time from 11.9 {ti   ```i‘   T
k minutes to 1.06 minutes. These improved methods —— Q   .'r‘?   6 =
h reduced the over-all labor requirement in the hatchery · ·  a,;;;, ( iiii i  E   Y6a’§’ ~        I ”°’·*  
` 20 percent.    .;` ,6 -~ 5 of y_ 666  6A   .
\/Vork is continuing on possible improvement of the _ [_ ’   , 6 _ I · _  I · c.
*‘ other work methods involved. During the coming T ~ ·   & r ·.   . 6
g year the improved methods will be tried in other An improved method; one man Pushes a rack of trays up a ·
Q hatcheries. ramp into the incubator, and sets the eggs by himself.
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Economics of the
 
*° BURLEY TOBACCO SITUATION
(` By Dana G. Card and Robert Rudd. Department of Agricultural Economics
Market demand for burley tobacco is linked closely equal to this year's disappearance of about 530 million
' to changes in domestic cigarette consumption, the form pounds. This figure, matched against the 1954 pro-
~, in which most burley tobacco is used. Cigarette con- duction of about 665 million pounds, points up one _
Q sumption, reversing a long upward trend, has declined aspect of the surplus problem facing tobacco growers.
about 4 percent in each of the last two years. Only A recurrence of last year's record burley yields, even
‘ J once before has consumption of cigarettes declined with the 25 percent reduction accepted by growers in
for two years in a row—and that was during the de- 1955, would mean a production of burley about equal
pression of the 1930’s when consumer incomes were at to this year's expected use. Total supplies of burley
low ebb. are llO\\’ equal to over 3% times the total annual dis-
‘ Foreign Outlets appearance   the leaf, the highest ratio between sup-
_ _ _ _ _ ply and use since 1940. Production has exceeded total
Y In contrast to declrnmg domestic consumption of disappezuame in all but [WO Ol- the las, ll years
Q burley tobacco, export prospects appear somewhat (Figl 1)_
, t°t`tgh_t€t"thOugh_ €Xl’O‘Qt’ Ot bt“`t€1' tteltet haw bcctt a Another element of this problem is the record hold-
· very important factor in the bur1ey`market. Foreign ings of burley under 103,1 by [hg Commodity Credit
Q outlets last year accounted for cr to b`p€1`C€l1i of total gjoypomrjnn, amounting to about 440 million [)UU11d$,
tlt$al’P€at`attC€· the htghest ttt about tOut` Y€at`S· Thts or almost one-fourth of the entire burley supply. For
3 Yeatys Yotttme Ot €XPOt`t$ ahotttd b“ at taast =¤_1¤ts