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growers of binder types has ended up as scrap chewing or as short fillers. 

 Eyen of the tobacco sorted, not much more than half has gone into cigars as 

 binders . 



For years, buyers have bought a part of their supplies of Connecticut 

 Broadleaf tobacco, type $1, sorted into grades by the growers. The rest is 

 bought in the bundle. Connecticut Valley Havana Seed, type 52, is also bought 

 in the bundle. The growers who sort into grades are paid different prices for 

 different groups of grades. The Wisconsin grower may strip his tobacco into 

 two or three groups or grower grades, selling each grade separately, or may 

 straight- strip without any sorting at all, selling his crop for stemming. 



Selling Tobacco for Processed Binders 



Tobacco bought for processed binders is not sorted. This has led to the 

 impression that any stemming tobacco would be suitable, which, however, is not 

 the case. While some of the characteristics that are important in natural 

 binders, such as lack of breakage of leaf, are not so important in tobacco for 

 processed binders, good aroma, good taste, and improvement with fermentation 

 are important. Grinding and additives improve the burning qualities, and the 

 elasticity and thinness are determined by the processing. 



The future market for the binder types will be for three uses instead of 

 two. In addition to tobacco for sorting for binders and to stemming tobacco 

 for scrap chewing, there will be tobacco for processed binders, not sorted into 

 grades. Some effects that processed binders will have on the use and marketing 

 of binder types of tobacco are shown in tables 2 and 3- 



Tobacco Required, Natural Compared With Processed Binders 



Table 2 shows, first, the amount of binder- type tobacco that would be used 

 in 6 billion cigars with natural binders, and, second, the amount if half the 

 cigars, or 3 billion, were made with natural binders and the other 3 billion 

 with processed binders. The figures are presented on two bases, one assuming 

 that 0.9 pound of packed tobacco would be required for a pound of processed 

 binder, and the second that 1.0 pound would be required. In addition to 6 

 billion cigars, 36 million pounds of scrap chewing tobacco would be made. When 

 all cigars have natural binders, 10 percent of the binders come from nonbinder 

 tobacco. When half the cigars are made with processed binders, the half made 

 with natural binders would use binder types only. Lower priced cigars now 

 having binders from nonbinder types would have processed binders in the future. 

 All of the stemming tobacco needed for scrap chewing would come from binder 

 types. This would take the place of the cuttings and throwouts, which would 

 not be available when processed binders were used. Tobacco for processed bind- 

 ers would come from the binder types. • Growers of binder tobacco could be ex- 

 pected to have competition from growers of Pennsylvania seedleaf tobacco, type 

 kl, and other nonbinder tobacco, as they have in the past, for binder and for 

 other uses. 



