AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS 45 
sweating is practiced but most of the better quality tobacco is packed 
directly into cases and is ‘natural sweated.’ Thestemming grades are 
usually sweated in the paper-wrapped bundles in which they are de- 
livered by the growers. Deliveries are usually made in the first 
quarter of the year, and most of the packing is done within this period. 
Types 54 and 55, Southern and Northern Wisconsin.—These types 
are closely related, the differences between the two being largely if not 
entirely due to the wide disparity between the soils on which they are 
grown. Type 54, Southern Wisconsin, is produced on the moraines 
of the southern part of the State, principally in Dane, Rock, and 
Columbia Counties. Relatively little of the crop is used for binder 
or filler purposes at the present time, most of it going to the stemming 
trade for scrap chewing purposes. 
Type 55, Northern Wisconsin, is not produced in the northern part 
of the State, as the trade name seems to imply, but north of the Wis- 
consin River in the hilly western portion of the Driftless or non- 
glaciated southwestern section, especially Vernon, Crawford, and 
Richland Counties. This is a strictly binder type, with only the 
inferior grades going into filler and stemming outlets. The small 
Minnesota crop is classed with Northern Wisconsin as type 55. 
Considering the types as a whole, the leaves of Wisconsin tobacco 
are somewhat larger and coarser than of the binder types produced in 
Connecticut. Wisconsin tobacco is stalk-cut and air-cured. It is 
marketed by private sale at the farm of the grower for delivery at 
central points such as Janesville, Stoughton, Viroqua, etc., or through 
a growers’ cooperative organization. Deliveries are usually made 
during the first quarter of the year. Asarule, the greater part of the 
crop is out of the growers’ hands by the first of April but sometimes, 
because of adverse weather, the delivery period extends into the 
second quarter. Sometimes when prices are low growers hold the 
tobacco on the farm for a year or more. 
Only a limited amount of sorting is done by the growers prior to 
delivery. They sort into two grades known as wrappers and fillers. 
Here, as in most tobacco districts ‘‘wrappers”’ is a term to denominate 
choice or top quality. The so-called filler grades, usually known in 
the trade as stemming, are used principally for scrap chewing. The 
tobacco is delivered in paper-wrapped bundles ranging in weight 
from 40 to 50 pounds. 
The packers sort and size the so-called wrapper grades and from 
these select the leaves of binder quality. Most of the Wisconsin 
binder grades are packed direct into cases after being sorted and 
sized, but some are bulk-sweated for about 2 weeks before packing. 
The stemming grades of Wisconsin tobacco are usually bulk- 
sweated for about a year in the paper-wrapped bundles in which they 
are delivered by the growers. Just before being stemmed the tobacco 
is taken out of the bundles, the damaged tobacco is thrown out, 
moisture is added, and the good tobacco rebulked and resweated for a 
short period. 
Type 56, Georgia and Florida Sun-Grown.—This is a new binder 
type, produced mainly in northwest Florida and southwest Georgia 
in the same area as the Georgia and Florida shade-grown, type 62. 
It has displaced the old Sun Sumatra cigar filler tobacco, type 45. 
The latter type was grown in this district under contract and sold to 
one company. It was primed and after delivery to the purchaser 
