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it, but_the work has mainly been done by our own men. They go 
right in and take the plow and raise the tobacco. They are respon- 
sible for every feature of it. 
The Cuarrman. You speak of the station now in Texas? 
Mr. Wurrnery. In Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, and our early 
work in Connecticut. We have taken charge of the work from the 
beginning. We have raised the tobacco and have been able to pro- 
duce a better product than has ever been produced by the people. 
Your Texas friends know that, Mr. Burleson. The tobacco, after 
being cut, is then taken to the barn and after being cured is taken to 
the warehouse, and there the highest skill of our experts is brought 
into play—how much that tobacco should be sweat, how you are going 
to bring out the aroma. When this leaf.is taken to the barn it has no 
aroma at all. It is unlike tobacco. You might as well smoke hay; 
but the delicacy of the aroma and the flavor of the tobacco is brought 
out in that bale in fermentation. Now, what we have to do to bring 
that out no one can tell. It is like a person making wine. It is like 
a cook making bread. You can give directions and one person will 
get one product and another person will get another product, depend- 
ing upon the skill of the person. It is something you can not teach a 
man. You can only allow him to learn. You can put him in a posi- 
tion in which he can learn, but you can not otherwise teach him. 
We do not know how long these tobaccos are going to require when 
we go into a new field like this. The Connecticut leat can be fermented 
in thirty days. The Ohio leaf has been in bulk six months and is not 
yet thoroughly fermented. 
The Cuatrman. That work isa little above and beyond the raiser 
of tobacco, is it not? 
Mr. Wuitney. No, sir; not at all. Weare teaching those people 
in Ohio to handle their crops according to our methods. Somewhere 
in my report to the Secretary I speak of the amount of tobacco that 
has been handled under our direction, of commercial tobacco in Ohio. 
It is something like four million pounds this year, of the commercial 
tobaccos in Ohio, that have been handled according to our bulk methods 
of fermentation, by direction of our own man. 7 
Mr. Burreson. Doctor, to speak of the Texas station, you keep 
these experts in curing permanently at Nacogdoches? 
Mr. Wuitney. Yes, sir; for the season. 
Mr. Burteson. You keep the expert grower, Mr. Hinson, there? 
Mr. Wurrney. Yes. 
Mr. Burteson. To revert to the question 1 asked you a moment 
ago, there would he no additional expense to the Government what- 
ever if the people in Lee County and in other counties saw fit to under- 
take the curing of tobacco, to have Mr. Hinson come there and super- 
vise the growth of it? 
Mr. Wuitney. No; that would be all right. 
Mr. Burueson. And then having grown it to send their product to 
Nacogdoches to be cured by these experts? 
Mr. Wuirney. Yes. 
Mr. Burieson. That could be done with comparatively little expense 
to the Government? 
Mr. Wurtyey. It can be done provided the results we get this year 
justify our advising those poe to go into it, and provided their soils 
are what we think are good tobacco soils. 
