AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS on 
ONE SUCKER, TYPE 35 
One Sucker is a manufacturing type of tobacco belonging to the 
dark air-cured class. It is grown mainly in a group of counties in 
southern Kentucky. Smaller quantities are grown in northern Ten- 
nessee and southern Indiana. At one time this type was grown to some 
extent in Virginia. The name comes from the fact that the removal 
of suckers, which sprout from the axils of the leaves, is supposed to 
be necessary only once during the growing season, whereas in other 
types it is necessary to sucker the crop at least twice. 
One Sucker is distinctive in appearance, being of rather rank 
erowth, with unusually long, narrow leaves in contrast with the broad 
leaves of other dark tobacco types (fig. 15). The midribs are ex- 
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Figure 15.—Plant of One Sucker tobacco, type 35. The leaves are long and 
narrow, and the veins make an unusually acute angle with the midrib 
cessively large, and the veins are at a much sharper angle in relation to 
the midrib than is true of any other type. Because of the large size 
of the midrib and the narrowness of the leaf, the loss in weight from 
stemming is considerably higher than for most other types. 
One Sucker thrives and produces relatively heavy yields on rough, 
hilly land not well adapted to other types. Many soils adapted to 
Burley will also produce One Sucker, but the higher prices commanded 
by the former are gradually eliminating One Sucker from such areas. 
This process of elimination arises directly from the fact that being 
darker, coarser, and stronger than Burley, it is unsuitable for smoking 
and cigarette purposes and therefore does not command the prices 
paid for cigarette types. 
