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TOBACCO PRODUCTION 



all kinds of tobaccos not used in cigars. The last two classes have 

 so much in common that they are usually considered together. 



In the cigar class are the three general types of wrapper leaf, 

 binder leaf, and filler leaf. In the manufacturing and export 



tobacco are such kinds as dark 

 fire-cured, Virginia sun-cured, 

 flue-cured, and white Burley. 



Three important varieties 

 or groups of varieties are used 

 in growing cigar leaf tobacco 

 in this country. They are the 

 broad-leaf or seed-leaf group; 

 the Cuban group, and the 

 Havana seed group. There is 

 an important group of so-called 

 Spanish varieties that are prac- 

 tically like the Havana, if not 

 identical with them. The Zim- 

 mer Spanish grown in the 

 Miami Valley for a filler and 

 the Comstock Spanish grown 

 in Wisconsin for binder leaf be- 

 long to this group. 



The principal varieties used 

 in producing dark fire-cured 

 tobacco are the Pryors, the 

 Yellow Mammoth, and the 

 Orinocos. These varieties and 

 selections from them are used 

 in producing the Virginia sun- 

 cured tobacco. Such strains of these two varieties as Little Orinoco, 

 Big Orinoco, Warne, Gooch, Adcock, Yellow Pryor, and Flannagan 

 are used in producing flue-cured tobacco. White Burley is the 

 variety used in producing the air-cured tobacco of the blue-grass 

 region of Kentucky, Tennessee (to a limited extent), and in 

 southern Ohio. 



Fio. 196. Tobacco plant developed for seed 

 production. (Maryland Bulletin 188.) 



