diiced on 4,200 acres in 1970, the harvests of this type 

 totaled 6,400,000 pounds. The vakie of the year's crop 

 was more than $25.8 bilhon. 



• Connecticut Broadleaf, a binder type. The 1970 crop 

 from 1,300 acres came to over 2.2 milhon pounds and 

 was vakied at $1.4 milhon. 



• Connecticut Havana Seed, also a binder type. This 

 type is grown on fewer than 100 acres and significant 

 production data are not available. 



Binder leaf comes within the provisions of the federal 

 price support program. Marketing quotas for binder 

 types have been in effect since the early 1950's; in 1970 

 there were 487 Connecticut allotments of 5,083 acres. 

 The income from Connecticut-grown tobacco in 1970 

 represented 13.6 percent of the cash receipts of the 

 state's farm commodities. 



T 



he versatile plant 



The leaf area of a fully matured cigar-tobacco plant 

 measures an average 25 square feet. Any of these types 

 could provide the leaf components of a cigar. These are 

 the core or filler that supplies the flavor and aroma, the 

 heavier, elastic binder that shapes and holds the bunched 

 filler, and the wrapper or cover of the cigar. For the past 

 half century and longer, however, filler, binder, and 

 wrapper types have been separately developed to sup- 

 ply the specific leaves required for cigars. 



Technological and economic conditions may force a 

 change in the differentiation of cigar-tobacco types. A 



