
Breeding Better Cigarette Tobaccos 
For the past thirteen years we have concentrated our 
efforts on the breeding of the highest type flue-cured 
tobaccos. 
Starting with those varieties of known adaptability, we 
have selected from each variety many superior plants in 
each generation. The heads on these plants have been 
inbred, (carefully bagged) and tagged; the seed heads 
examined at regular intervals, pruned and kept poisoned. 
The same number of leaves have been gathered from the 
middle section of each plant—these tagged and uniformly 
cured. 
CURED LEAVES CAREFULLY ANALYZED 
The tagged seed heads have been harvested and then 
these cured leaves conditioned. Then our tobacco experts 
have carefully and critically analyzed each sample, record- 
ing weight, leaf size, leaf shape, texture, type and size of 
venation, and general marketability. 
The seed heads from the 5% to 10% of those plants that 
made the highest grade were threshed 
separately, cleaned, treated and planted 
each in a_ separate section of bed. 
These were then tested in plant to row 
tests and finally only those plant fami- 
lies that bred true and made the most 
dollars per acre were saved and planted 
in isolated fields for seed purposes. 








These fields have been carefully checked plant by plant, 
and only those uniformly good plants allowed to produce 
seed, and these seed heads have been carefully pruned, 
assuring a plump, well developed seed. 
UNDESIRABLE CHARACTERS ELIMINATED 
Through our long inbreeding and testing program, we 
have been able to eliminate within each variety, lines 
that carried undesirable characters, and have concentrated 
our work on lines of proven superiority. Our Gold Dollar 
has thirteen years of inbreeding and testing behind it; 
Yellow Mammoth, Virginia Bright Leaf, Bonanza, eleven 
years, and our Mammoth Gold (a cross of Gold Dollar and 
Yellow Mammoth, back crossed on Gold Dollar), eight 
years of inbreeding and testing. 
GOOD QUALITIES INTENSIFIED 
In tobacco breeding, as in the breeding of other crops, 
we never hope to reach perfection, but are gratified at 
the progress made. Each new strain of our pedigreed 
tobaccos has a little more nearly ap- 
proached that perfection. This long 
inbreeding program has built up and 
intensified the good characters that we 
have striven so hard to attain. We offer 
these new strains, feeling that they will 
produce for you more quality-yield and 
dollars per acre. 
