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?TrNE5PAY; AUGUST 1 iResearcli I ptT.HA.\i Die successful culI lallty Turkish toI country, a feat |'tj. .i.daily considered im announced simulDuke university and ,.ial experiment stations I Una Virginia and : Turkish tobacco by manufacturers for :lh domestic tobaccos j 50 to "5 million I so the announceI ce one of important "ij< - ci ificance. Manufac the quadrupling WL smoking in the UnitI past 25 I v to me skillful blend kish with domestic toI jjje utive aromatic leaf is I this summer under I . .. of Duke ana state I ition researchers on small farms in three I: mine experimentalI high quality proI profitably to I of Turkish in Sell Yoin k. FL Beds, IV Wardrt Chests, We want you to : Attractive F CAN BE Ellic FURNITU J. B. (Brice) van wc piuviu 8cor.om..ally feasible, and if the jtiicat: of present field and Steal " findings are borne out, j i . prove a boon to thouspjs i: small growers in the p.. . lv.,1 mountain areas and iu:k of the most important jcvelJp: ? ;.ts in tobacco growing pr.ee ' e bright domestic and ev tobaccos were first der:. re.: >o to 100 years ago. Strangely enough, the Turkish plat.: thrives and produces best pllitv on comparatively poor <d fortunately does not iTer'.ap areas of domestic leaf. HAND LABOR A pi: .:?al consideration to be fcait with in the growth and taring of Turkish tobacco is the larse amount of hand labor inlolved, -ir.ce the more numerous Saves are but a tenth the size if domestic tobacco leaves and ,1945 iers Find n? T1 i < rine lurki m Tabor C require considerable handling. Continuation of the research program this summer and in subsequent seasons will include attempts to solve the labor-cost problem. Turkish brings a substantially higher price per pound than does domestic leaf. Once the operation is under way an income of $600 an acre would not De consiut'ieu uvtrr opiiuusuv. Announcement of the perfection of methods of producing Turkish tobacco in this country is the culmination of an intensive program of quiet research that has been under way for over five years. For prior decades it had been contended that Turkish would thrive only in certain areas bordering the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and the numerous attempts to produce it successfully in other areas have failed. Now it is proved that American Turkish is as good if not better than the overseas toTtf* 1H>I r Tobacco In T. ;ee us for youf fRNITU -jM latttesses, Bool >bes, Baby Cribs, C Fables, Chairs . . . Od< see our stock before you buy we can save you money. Vices For Cash .., ARRANGED TO SUIT PUR itt & Ande RE CO. ELLIOTT D. A VayToGr ish T obac( / 3ity Street Scene Lookii bacco 11 Credit for the successful pro-| duction of this popular blending |l tobacco in this country goes to ail small group of Duke and agri- 1 cultural scientists of the three! states, who have been supported !t in their work by Duke univer- '< sity, the General Education 1 boaid, the agricultural agencies i of the three states and four of 1 the major tobacco companies. jl Duke university's interest in ' research on the agronomic and 1 industrial aspects of the tobacco11 industry through the Department 1 of Chemistry is another nvanifes- ? tation of its desire to serve the 1 region in which it is situated. j Earlier aspects of this research ^ program have resulted in im- 3 portant contribution toward the , development of a domestic cigar-j ette paper' industry in North Carolina and toward the development ( of controls over such serious to- ( bacco crop diseases are blue j j 1 abor City j; t ji RE i: l\ij ] See Our Values J < Iii Nice i LIVING ROOM |; ED ROOM ; 1 SUITES ! BREAKFAST I Room Sets I d manj'other outstanding I Values in Household I Furnishings. I !c Cases, I Sressers I J Pieces .... We believe I .. Or Terms I CHASER I rson Tabor City I 1. ANDERSON THE STATE FORT PILOT,. SC OW I :o!n U.S.? I im * peJ lg North ^ se? ? | WO j pl3 dei frc cui ' '/ ' ' - /V: ' . "I re* ed ?Vii nold and Granville wilt. qu Dr. P. R. Darkis, of the Duke tal Department of Chemistry has wa jeen in charge of the Turkish to- be; jacco experimental laboratory and lea 'ield research, a task which in- ha ,'olved the responsibility of co- coi jrdinating the project between inj :he participating agencies and ndividuals. Dr. P. A. Wolf of I :he Duke Department of Botany thi las been in charge of the breed- exi ng and genetic experiments. The pe; jrogram as a whole has been no inder the general direction of stt Dr. Paul Gross, chairman of the vo Department of Chemistry. The ' nvestigations have been carried ho )ut as a co-operative project pk retvveen Duke and the agricul- pl? ural agencies of the states of co; "?*-u ^ VWinin -inel tei .Minn v^aiuuna, ?? South Carolina. cai KEY MAN de Dr. E. G. Moss of the Oxford thi obacco experiment station at Oxford, N. C., has been one of theton <ey men in the program and has b?' lad the active support of Com- sn' nissioner Kerr Scott, Dr. L. D. nl< 3aver, director of the North Car- s'c ilina agricultural experiment sta- vi ipn, and Fred Miller, director of C01 he state farms. Dr. Moss has al) nade available facilities for car- of -ying on most of the agronomic urogram. On the basis of his ex- Pa :ensive tobacco experience he mi nade many suggestions helpful an .o the program. :t'11 In Virginia the work was car- .801 ied on at the Chatham experi- cri nent station under the direction |an )f E. M. Mathews who had long ^cu reen interested in the possibility du )f producing Turkish tobacco in(iel his country and who made trial fal Dlantings there before the incep-1Vi don of the present pfogram, and.is ay Luben Spasoff, a native Bui-1of *arian who had had experience}'1'' n growing Turkish tobacco in sa he old country. |SIT The subsequent development of. 550 his work in Virginia -was made! possible by the support of Dr. jim W. Drinkard, Jr., director of t'li he Virginia Agricultural Experi- jwi nent station, and of Dr. T. B. su dutcheson, agronomist for the fllJ /irginia Experiment station. | ^ Since 1944 the program has been su ;xtended to include work in South, tol COLUP TRADING TABOR -W T rw KUYSJ FIELD TI FERTIL ?See Us For Y ^ | iy is an investigation of the st procedures for handling these ives at harvest and a study of rvesting costs. In addition less stly methods of curing are bef investigated. ECONOMIC FACTORS 3ince it has been demonstrated it from 700 to 900 pounds of cedent Turkish can be grown r acre, the investigations are w largely concerned with a j idy of the economic factors in-1 Ived. rhe investigations emphasize, wever, that only after the Munition of several years study of inting, harvesting, and handling sts will it be possible to de mine definitely whether a cropj n be produced economically un-1 r existing farming conditions in! s Southeast. Production in small plots of e to two acres or less nas en found most desirable. Many tall farms in the upper Pied>nt regions of the Eastern ipe of the Blue Ridge from rginia to South Carolina are; nsidered to be the most favorle sites for growing this type tobacco. The economic situation over the st 20 years has operated to ike these small farms more d more marginal and to deprive eir owners of their norma) urces of cash income. An insasing preference by American lokars for lighter eastern fluered types of tobacco has reced the demands for the heav types formerly grown on the rms of the western Piedmont in rginia so that a new cash crop now badly needed as a source Income in this area. Due to ? higher production costs, the me situation prevails for the lall cotton farmers in western uth Carolina. A second factor of economic portance and significance is it these tobaccos thrive better th organic^ types of fertilizers, ch as are commonly used for ie-cured tobacco production, le widespread introduction of ch a profitable crop as Turkish bacco to these farms would dBUS , CO-, Inc. CITY 'ER'S STED IZERS r our Needs? iuTHPORT N. C. rolina through the cooperation' Dr. R. V. Poole, president of :mson college, and the active >rk of H. A. McGee, Q. H. Grifi, and J. A. Martin. Dne of the interesting revelans of this co-operative research jgram has been the demonstran that it is not necessary to port fresh seed from the Eurom growing regions each year plantings in this country. It i previously been thought that i id grown in 'the United States uld not continue to produce nts which are true to type. Turkish tobaccos are grown un-1 r greatly different conditions im those of the familiar fluered tobacco of the Southeastern jion. Turkish plants are plantvery close together, from 5 6 inches apart and in rows 20 dies apart. Under these crowdconditions the closely spaced ilks produce a large number of iall leaves. There are 55 to SO monn/1 Tm-Viah rtlartfa fUK msawu i utnion j<?"' ?.?> fv? re as compared to 5 to 6 thouad domestic plants per acre. 1 WTule this process increases the >or of planting, there is ample mpensation in the fact that i crop while growing needs ry littfe weeding or cultivation, rhe exceptionally large number plants per acre and the numers leaves to each stalk, neverjless, means the harvest reires a great amount of pains<iner hand labor. Now under require the production of more' nui animal manures and thereby encourage the keeping of livestock, the A more balanced agriculture on ar( these farms would be the result. gjr The present experiments in the growth of Turkish, so far as it lga is known, are the first to be con-' , i an ducted on a broad, scientific basis. [ f Field fertilization tests were ac- , . ; bei companied by extensive tobacco ^ analyses of both the local grown |tQ and imported Turkish. This cor- v relation of laboratory and field rgJ work was done under the direc-i J tion of Dr. Darkis, and much ofi h the success of the program as a I gtr whole is to be attributed to the , i ion findings of his experiments. | 25 SAMPLES OF SEED 9 From various sources 26 sam- I pies of seed were originally ob- I tainn/1 Tllrtta flf P9Ph , I lauiEU. J ? | were grown and were found in | most instances to be mixtures of | various tobaccos. Careful selec- j tion of the moat desirable plants from several varieties have led i to the development of strains: more suitable for production in j the Southeastern areas than were any of the original varieties. In an entirely different direction careful laboratory and field experimentation under the direction of Dr. Wolf has shown a correlation between tBe development of aroma in individual plants and in different types at tobacco which is related to the gum content which exudes from the hair glands on the leaf surface of these aromatic tobaccos. 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