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TOBACCO BREEDING 
The following series of pictures illustrate an 
important phase of our tobacco seed breeding pro- 
gram and helps explain why we have been able 
to make steady progress in our efforts to pro- 
duce for our customers, better and more profitable 
cigarette-type varieties and strains. 
Each year thousands of outstanding individual 
plants are selected, bagged and the leaves of each 
plant cured and appraised to determine their 
‘value. This is a continuing process of selecting 
Every year in our breeding fields of each 
a Ketel-1a @mmoyeleycoselottele mmo) Cosel t-Moeg-ME-(-)(-Lol (-fo MM ole t-i-Tol 
on type, size, spacing and quality of leaves, 
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Strong paper bags are carefully tied on the 
pruned seed heads. 
the best from the best, year after year, and of 
proving the worth of those showing greatest 
promise through carefully conducted plant-to-row 
and variety tests, where they are grown in com- 
petition with other leading strains. This is the 
procedure we have followed since our tobacco 
program was begun in 1928 and the only seed 
which we offer are those which we, ourselves, 
grow on our own farms under the personal super- 
vision of our tobacco experts. 
Before heads of selected plants are bagged to 
prevent cross breeding, all flowers which have 
opened or matured are carefully removed as 
these may have been cross pollinated with other 
plants. - 
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