AA CIRCULAR 249, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
In former years part of the Havana Seed crop was primed for cigar 
wrapper purposes, but recently practically all of it has been stalk-cut. 
It is air-cured in barns under natural atmospheric conditions. The 
marketing system and method of delivery are the same as for Broad- 
leaf except that a very large percentage is sold by the growers in un- 
assorted bundles and then sorted by the packers. It is also sized to 
2-inch lengths ranging from 14 to 26 inches, the greater part ranging 
from 18 to 24 inches. Deliveries are made by the growers from 
December to March, in some years extending into April. Most of 
the deliveries are usually made in January. 
The packing and fermentation methods employed are similar to 
those used in handling Broadleaf. 
Type 53, New York and Pennsylvania Havana Seed.—This tobacco 
is produced in a widely scattered area through northern Pennsylvania 
and southern and central New York. The principal marketing points 
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Figure 20.—-A tobacco-curing barn in the Connecticut Valley. Note the method 
of regulating the circulation of air. 
are Elmira and Syracuse, N. Y. The average annual production for 
the last 10 years has been about 1,500,000 pounds. The tobacco of 
this section has been classified as a binder type, but from a type stand- 
point two kinds are produced. The Big Flats is a binder type similar 
to the Connecticut Havana Seed, and the Onondaga is more of a filler 
type. At one time these tobaccos were used principally for cigar 
binders and fillers, but more recently the greater part of them has 
been used in scrap chewing tobacco. 
Type 53 tobacco is stalk-cut and air-cured. It is sold mostly 
at the farms of the growers by private sale, and delivered to the dealers 
in paper-wrapped bundles ranging in weight from 30 to 50 pounds. 
Little sorting is done by the growers. They usually sort into only two 
orades. The dealers and packers sort out the binders and fillers from 
the best of the growers’ grades and pack them in cases. Some bulk- 
