The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-03-31
TOBACCO INDUSTRY
SPECIALIZED HIGH
Each District Produces Type
For Special Purposes of
Manufacture or Export

Each important tobacco district OF
the United States produces a type OF
tobacco for special purposes Of manu-
facture or export. The methods OF
growing and handling a crop must
vary according TO the type OF leaf
desired. and therefore according to
the particular districts where it Is
grown. The Department Of Agricul-
turc has just issued a bulletin on to-
bacco culture. which recommends
methods for the production Of vari-
ous American types.
The commercial value of tobacco is
Influenced to a greater degree by par
ticular soil and climatic conditions
than it that of almost any other i'm
portant crop. This has caused the
industry TO become highly SPECIALIZED
and the trade looks regularly to well
defined areas for the various types of
leaf it requires.
AS ObaccO grow readily over so
large an area, it is not strange Ia
many farmers experiment with it, and
often obtain seeming Success-that is,
the plants grow readily, but when it
cOmeS time to sell the crop the farmer
can find no market.
4 have grown five acres Of to-
bacco." a farmer writes from a dis
trict where tobacco is not grown for
the commercial trade. But there
to be no market. Can the Department
OF Agriculture help me?"
The department can only advise this
farmer that conditions are uch that,
even though his product appears to be
of good quality, he probably will be
nab to market it, as the trade does
not recognize his section as a tobacco
producing area. Here we have the diff
ference emphasized between tobacco
and a crop like corn, for which a mar
ket may readily be found, no matter
where it is grown, if the quality is
good.
Three General Classes.
Three general classes of tobacco
are described in the new bulletin
cigar ~tObaccOS, export tObaccOS and
manufacturing tobaccos. By manu-
featuring tObaccOs are meant all
types used in manufacture other han
cigars. The manufacturing and export
classes, however, have much in com
mon as regards cultural methods. and
some types are used for manufacture
ing and for expert. therefore these
two classes are considered together as
distinguished from the cigar tobac-
cos.
Each Of these three classes OF to-
bacco may be subdivided into types
0S I'LL 1SA4 oPV&404 uOSSs ll1CtA
DDS of growing n curing. or on the
variety of seed used. In the case OF
cigar tObaccOs there are three prin-
cipal types, corresponding to the three
parts Of the cigar-wrapper leaf, bin.
der leaf and filler leaf. In the manu-
featuring and export tohaccos are such
types as the fue-cured. Virginia sun.
cured, white hurley, dark fre-cured
etc. These various types are produced
on certain special types of soil and
according to definite methods Of grow
!, ing, curing and handling the crop. Il
some cases the variety of seed usee
also is an important factor.
!, The export and manufacturing
+ types of tObaccos are grown mainl,
t in Kentucky, Maryland, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennes
3 see, West Virginia, southern Ohio ant
= southeastern Indiana. Best method,
for the culture OF the various type,
, are explained in the new bulletin.
One Of the most troublesome ant
q persive features Of tobacco cultur
t particularly in the southern districts
e is the control OF numerous insects
$ which if not combated would ofte,
completely destroy the commercial
value of the crop. Among the NOR
: important insects attacking the to
3 haeco plant may be mentioned tn
tobacco hea-beetle, the tobacco wire
r worms cutworms. the hornworms
e or green worms" and the tobacc
e budworms. OF these the hornworms
y or green worms" are USUALLY III
\ most destructive.