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from 8 to 9 cents a pound, although of course individual crops might 
sell very much above or below the average for the time, according to 
the quality of the crop as placed on the market. 
Burley tobacco is subdivided into a great array of grades or classes, 
varying according to the influence of soil, season, and the skill of the 
individual grower. But only about six fundamental grades are gener- 
ally recognized, as they naturally occur in any crop or, in fact, upon 
a single plant. Each plant will usually give from two to four leaves 
of each of the following grades, beginning at the top of the plant: Green 
or red tips, red leaf, bright leaf, lugs, and trash. At the very bottom 
there are generally one or two small trashy leaves called flymgs. 
On some plants or in some crops naturally the so-called bright 
leaf may be darker than the so-called red leaf from another plant 
or crop, and vice versa, but the character of the leaf for a given plant 
usually varies in grade according to the rule stated. In addition to 
these grades defective grades are usually sorted out and classed as 
worm eaten, house burned, etc. 
After the tobacco is placed on the market this plan of grading is 
lost sight of very largely, although the names of the grades them- 
selves are retained and leaf, trash, or lugs, ete., will be dark red, 
bright red, or colory, according to a standard existing in the minds of 
the members of the tobacco trade. 
The prices set by the Burley growers of Kentucky in 1904 in their 
efforts to obtain better returns from their crops are of interest in 
throwing light on the comparative value of the different grades into 
which Burley is naturally assorted by the farmer. 
The schedule of prices proposed was for loose tobacco assorted and 
tied into hands, delivered in soft winter order. When redried and 
delivered in keeping order the prices were to be 15 per cent higher. 
The schedule is shown in Table XIX. 
TaBLE XIX .—Schedule of prices proposed by the growers’ organization for loose Burley 
tobacco in 1904. 
Price per 100 pounds. 
Classes. 
Grade 1. | Grade 2. |} Grade 3. 
INKED Sasa ctSek 6 SEB ee eRe ee eau Ais eee ene mEne HeuMne 2 Aetly > 24% So $10 $7 $5 
AS Lerner taney eh eden) epee ame pepe eS Than EAS MS! SRS e/a ol ue tie 12 10 Uf 
TLABUERSS 8 oa Se sh gs le 2 ae OI oT aCe gh ae SE Er Ena ca yee ae 16 12 9 
EVE CUM ee Tesiiee aca eee ye snes Ten A Cg i te hk) Rg 2 ale ma Te 11 9 
LBA EA M6 SEN Ss Seren ees GPS e te AT Sere Nay Se Rea OER ECs oi 9 Cae 18 | 14 12 
WHOS Bos Bea Gos Bele Goa TO Ste, a Dari ne en RCM OIE rue cebste <ul iae 10 | 8 | 7 
1.Cigarette lugs and fancy leaf from $20 to $26. 
2 Green, damaged, frosted, and common black tips from $3 to $6. 
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