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Burletj seedlings being transplanted into the field 



Courtesy, the Tobacco Experiment Station, Greeneville, Tenn 



highly aromatic Burley can be produced. This will 

 result in uniform ripening of the plant. 



Some farmers prime the leaves when they begin to 

 mature; that is, they pull off the first lemon-yellowed 

 leaves before cutting off the entire plant. Generally 

 though, common practice is to cut off the whole plant 

 at the lower part of the stalk. The plants are then 

 speared onto sticks and taken to curing barns where a 

 four to six week "airing out" will literally starve the 

 plant and cause the leaf to turn tan to reddish brown 

 in color. 



There has been some experimentation with bulk cur- 

 ing. By this method some thousand pounds of leaves, 

 stripped from stalks, are placed in a specially designed 



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