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BREEDING BETTER 
CIGARETTE 
TOBACCOS 
For the past eighteen years we have concentrated our ef- 
forts on the breeding of the highest type flue-cured tobaccos. 
Starting with those varieties of known adantability, we have 
selected from each variety many superior plants in each genera- 
tion. The heads on these plants have been inbred (carefully 
bagged), and tagged; the seed heads examined at regular inter- 
vals, 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 care- 
fully and critically analyzed each sample, recording 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 plants 
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 Bonanza and Jamaica Wrapper have 
eighteen years of inbreeding and testing behind them; Gold 
Dollar and Virginia Bright Leaf have seventeen years, Yellow 
Mammoth, fifteen years, and our Mammoth Gold (a cross of 
Gold Dollar and Yellow Mammoth, back crossed on Gold Dollar), 
twelve 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 approached 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. 

