GROUP PRICE INDEX NUMBERS


 Field Crops


 The grass, oil, fiber, and tobacco crops account for 13.8 percent
of the weight in the composite index and they have been grouped together
as field crops in the computation of the index. The weight of the
commodity groups in the field crop index is as follows: sugarcane, 46.8
percent; peanuts and soybeans, 19.3 percent; tobacco, 14.2 percent; corn,
12.1 percent; hay, 6.8 percent; and cotton lint, 0.8 percent.


 All Livestock and Products


 All livestock and livestock products sales account for 32.8.percent
of the weight in the composite index. Of that amount, meat animals are
41.5 percent; milk, 32.6 percent; and poultry and poultry products, 25.9
percent.


 Citrus


 The citrus group index makes up 33.0 percent of the weight of the
combined index of all farm prices. In the citrus index itself round
oranges account for 75 percent of the weight, tangerines about 3 percent,
temples 2 percent, grapefruit 18 percent, and limes about 2 percent.
 In the citrus group index and in the combined index, equivalent
 packinghouse-door returns to growers for all methods of sale were used.
 This takes into consideration the sales to processors, and "on-tree" sales,
 as well as sales of packed fruit for fresh consumption. Too, sales at that
 point are most nearly comparable to the f.o.b. quotations of vegetables and
 do not give an undue weight to citrus which the inclusion of processing
 costs might exert.


 Vegetables


 The group index for vegetables includes 14 crops with weights dis-
 tributed as follows: beans, 6.2 percent; cabbage, 6.3 percent; celery,