Excerpt from the report Summary: Two aspects of flue-cured prices are given attention in this report. One is the extent to which the average price of a group of United States grades differs from one type of flue-cured tobacco to another. These comparisons show on the basis of a whole season the size and direction of price differences among belts. As the price averages are for groups of grades identical in each belt, it may be presumed that differences in price are not caused by differences in quality. The second aspect is the way in which the average price of a group of U. S. grades of a single type varies during the course of a marketing season and the factors that are apparently associated with this variation. This also permits price comparisons among belts for various periods within a season. In this connection, the influence on flue-cured prices of changing quantities of certain qualities of leaf sold in the various flue-cured belts from week to week in the course of the marketing season was investigated.