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 slightly above the 1957-58 season but 12.9 million cwt. below the record in 1956-57. Milled rice exports totaled 13.5 million cwt. as against 12.6 million Shipments under Public Law 480 amounted to 3.4 million the previous year. cwt. compared with 5.7 million a year earlier. Acceptances of lids to export rice under the Payment- in-Kind Program amounted to 7.7 million cwt. from the inauguration of the program, December 15, 1958, through September 1, 1959. Export donations, largely to charitable organizations, totaled 650 thousand cwt. as against 700 thousand a year earlier. Breweries used 3.3 million cwt. of rice for beer production, slightly under the previous year and the average. the largest of record. Shipments to Territories reached 3.9 million cwt. About 9.2 million cwt. of milled rice remained for domestic consumption compared with 9o6 million the previous season. Stocks of nearly 6 million cwt. of milled rice on August 1, 1959 were 12 percent larger than beginning stocks the season before.

Southern milled rice distribution declined to 19.7 million cwt. in 1958-59, or 4.5 million below 1957-58 and nearly 12 million under the 1956-57 record. Exports dropped about 2 million cwt. and the quantity used for food domestically was down nearly 3 million cwt. Mill stocks in the South on August 1, 1959 totaled 5.1 million cwt. compared with 4.2 million a year earlier. Commodity Credit Corporation owned a little over 3 million cwt. of August 1 stocks both years

Distribution of California milled rice in 1958-59 varied considerably the from the pattern of 1957-58. Shipments of milled head rice at 6.2 million cwt. were slightly larger, while shipments of second heads and screenings at 1 million cwt. were three times greater. Brewers' rice shipments increased sharply and totaled a record 1.2 million cwt. Milled rice exports reached 3.7 million cwt. -- three times as much as the previous season. Exports included 1.7 million cwt. from CCC stocks that moved mostly under the Barter Program. Shipments to Puerto Rico, consisting mainly of No. 3 California Pearl, enriched, totaled 2.4 million cwt. as against 2 1 million the year before. Takings by Hawaii and Guam were slightly above the previous season but somewhat below average. California shipped slightly over 2 million cwt. of milled rice for domestic food consumption -- nearly twice as much as the year before Purchases by cereal manufacturers and Southern rice mills accounted for much of this increase. Most of the rice shipped to Southern mills was comprised of No. 1 Calrose, with prices below those paid for comparable rice in the South.

ROUGH RICE RECEIPTS

Public rice driers and rice mills in the South received 32.2 million cwt, of rice for drying during the 1958-59 season. This was about 3.2 million cwt. more than the previous season and accounted for a little over 91 percent of the total rice produced in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. The year before, rice driers and rice mills received almost 29 million cwt. of rough rice, or about 87 percent of total production.

Composition of total rough rice receipts in the South showed several significant changes. Nato rough rice, which accounted for only a small part - 7 -