BREEDING FOR BLAC 
In breeding and testing for black shank resistance, our breeders selected s 
tures on these pages show Coker 139 and Coker 140, our two new tobaccos, in 
This is the Columbus County, North 
Carolina, nursery where Coker 139 
and Coker 140 were bred. The cen- 
ter row is planted to Golden Harvest, 
a black shank susceptible variety. 
Note how this variety has succumbed 
to black shank while the two new 
tobaccos on either side are standing 
well. Seed from bagged heads will be 
used for increase planting and further 
experimental study. 
Along the center row shown in the 
picture opposite, Golden Harvest was 
used as a check between Coker 139, 
right, and Coker 140, left. Note how 
the plants in this check row have been 
completely destroyed by black shank 
and the bed packed by the several 
thousand persons who visited this plot 
during the summer of 1954 to see 
these tobaccos. Shown in this pic- 
ture is Mr. Pete Byrd of Bailey, N. C., 
on whose place this plot was located. 
ao 
Black shank has destroyed the cen- ] 
ter check row of Golden Harvest in 
this Halifax County, Virginia, dem- 
onstration plot. In this picture, Coker 
139 is on the left and Coker 140 on 
the right. The men in the picture 
are, left to right, Edwin Allen, farm- 
er and government tobacco grader; 
H. Monroe Glass, president of J. E. 
Boyd Tobacco Company; Vern B. 
Brown, manager of Cooperative Sup- 
ply Co., Coker dealers in South Hill, 
Va.; and Carter Glass, vice president 
of J. E. Boyd Tobacco Co. All are 
from South Hill. 
