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Three New Varieties 
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3012—N. C. EXP. STATION #400.—Since 1930 the 
North Carolina Experiment Station at Oxford, N. C., 
has been testing tobaccos to find a variety resistant 
to the Black Root Rot. This disease has caused con- 
siderable loss to the tobacco farmers of the Old and 
Middle Belts of Virginia and North Carolina. After 
ten years, the workers finally developed this variety, 
growing it for years on soils known to be infested 
with the disease and selecting the most resistant 
plants for parent stock. It is not claimed to be im- 
mune to Black Root Rot but highly resistant. Thus 
we have in the “400” one of the best tobaccos to grow 
on soils infested with Black Root Rot. It is a thin 
bright and seems to do better on the clay soils of the 
Old Belt than in the sands of Eastern Carolinas. It 
grows a wide leaf, easily cured into a bright lug. Its 
products should find ready sale on any cigarette to- 
bacco market. The Experiment Station made ex- 
haustive tests of its quality both chemically and in 
cigarettes and found the leaf of “400” to compare 
favorably with that of other bright varieties. It has 
also been found that “400” is 10 to 15% more re- 
sistant to Granville Wilt than many of the standard 
bright sorts. For complete information about both 
the “400” and “401” tobaccos, write the N. C. Ex- 
periment Station, Oxford, N. C., for bulletin No. 337. 
Price, oz. $1.00, %4 lb. $3.00, 1b. $9.00, postpaid. 
3013—N. C. EXP. STATION #401.—This variety was 
also developed by the N. C. Exp. Station in order to 
get a tobacco resistant to Black Root Rot with more 
body than the 400. According to N. C. Exp. Station 
bulletin #337, 400 was crossed with Cash and the 
resulting hybrid was named 401. This gives us a 
variety that will be suitable to the sands of the 
Eastern Carolinas as well as the clay of the Middle 
and Old Belts. 401 is not a heavy type but has suf- 
ficient body to stand up under adverse conditions and 
make a good yield. In our tests upon our seed farm, 
we were highly pleased with the showing made by 
401. [t made some of the best quality leaf even after 
growing a crop of seed on it. 401 is of medium size, 
broad tapering leaf, well filled, and cures easily into 
a good quality bright tobacco. The N. C. Experiment 
Station ranks 401 as high as 400 in resistance to 
Black Root Rot and Granville Wilt. However, both 
of these varieties should be allowed to ripen thorough- 
ly on the hill before being pulled. The bottom prim- 
ings may be pulled slightly on the green side but as 
the harvest progresses up the stalk, more time should 
be given to allow the tobacco to ripen. We do not 
recommend any new variety of tobacco but we cer- 
tainly think that 401 gives promise of being a good 
bright sort. 
Price, oz. $1.00, 14 Ib. $3.00, Ib. $9.00, postpaid. 
3011—YELLOW SPECIAL.—This variety has created 
quite a sensation among the growers of the “Old 
Belt” where it has been grown for the past two or 
three years. According to Mr. E. M. Matthews of the 
Chatham Experiment Station who introduced Yellow 
Special, the original strain was a cross between Har- 
rison Special and one of the smaller leaf sorts having 
fine texture. The original selection first reached the 
Chatham experiment station from the farm of J. C. 
Keesee of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. From the 
very first year that this variety was included in the 
tests on the experiment station farm, it was recog- 
nized as a definitely high yielding sort with a very 
superior quality to Harrison Special. For eight years, 
Mr. Matthews bred and improved and tested Yellow 
Special before releasing it to the farmers. He claims 
that in this period of breeding, considerable improve- 
ment was made in the original strain. The most im- 
portant characteristics of Yellow Special are: First, 
it makes a big yield. It has vigorous habits of growth 
and stands up well under adverse conditions. It 
seems to resist both root-rot and leaf spot to a re- 
markable degree. Second, it is early maturing a week 
or two ahead of many of the standard sorts. This 
shorter growing period cuts down labor and risks of 
weather damage. Third, the leaf is large but of good 
texture and they are held up by good stems, thus 
cutting down sand damage. The cured leaf is bright 
and thin and seems to be just what cigarette manu- 
facturers are wanting now. The plants grow tall and 
strong with the tips pointing up and the lower leaves 
held off the ground. It is well spaced on the stalk 
but will fill out even when topped very high on strong 
land. It has every characteristic of a high yielding, 
easy curing, bright lug. 
Oz. $1.00, %4 1b. $3.00, Ib. $9.00, postpaid. 
