tndusirr-Wide Committee Volunteers
Working To Improve Tobacto Variety
. There is a good Chance that fu
ture tobacco varieties will ba less
controversial than those grown in
the past.
At least this is the hope of the
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new 12-man variety Advisory Com
mittee, headed by Dr. Guy Jones
of North Carolina State.
The Advisory Committee was or
ganized this year to examine-new
tobaccos and to make recommenda
tions concerning their release for
grower planting
In addition to Dr. Jones, commit
tee membership is composed of
tbree tobacco company representa
tives, two representatives from pub
lie agencies, three private seed
breeders, two farmers and one to
batco exporter.
All flue-cured tobacco breeders,
botl} private and public, have a
greed to abide by recommendations
of the committee. The breeders also
have agreed to a set of quality
standards that the committee will
use in evaluating new tobaccos and
a testing program to insure that the
standards are met.
Creation of the Variety Advisory
Committee has been hailed as one
of the brightest spots in the fre
quently cloudy tobacco picture.
Some of the major ills of the to
bacco industry in recent years have
been blamed on the planting of var
ieties that have failed to gain trade
accept wee.
Despite this criticism, however,
never before has an industry-wide
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group been able to agree on the
characteristics that a tobacco var
iety should have.
Maay tobacco leaders say that the
adoption of the quality standards
and testing program will assure ac
ceptable quality for future leaf var
ieties and give U. S. tobacco a boost
in world markets.
Here briefly, according to Dr.
Jones, is how new tobaccos will
be handled:
Each new tobacco must be dis
tinquishable from existing varie
ties in one or more characteristics.
It must have reached the point of
genetic stability, or the stage of
development where It will "breed
true."
Hicks Broadleaf and NC-95 will
be .used as quality standards in
evaluating the new variety. Chemi
cally, it must he within 15 per cent
(either plus or minus) of these two
varieties.
The new variety must also com
pare favorably with Hicks and NC
OS in color, body, texture, moisture
equilibrium, filling value, flavor
and aroma.
When a seed breeder has a line
of tobacco that he thinks will meet
the above requirements, he can en
ter it in regional tests conducted
by land grant colleges in the flue
cured producing states.
Two years of testing will be re
quired. The first year, the new to
bacco will be tested in small plots.
At least three small plot tests will
be located in North Carolina, and
at least one each in- Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Data will be taken on such things
as yield, leaf number, plant height,
days to flower, suckers per plant,
description of leaf size and shape,
and estimation of disease resistan
ce. The tobacco also will be tested
under code for its. chemical content,
manufacturing properties and
smoking qualities.
Tobaccos that measure up to the
standards in the small plot tests
will be eligible to enter regional
farm tests the following year. Here
the tobacco is grown under actual
farm conditions. At least 12 such
tests will be conducted in the five
flue-cured states, six of which will
be in North Carolina.
At the end of the second year of
testing, the Variety Advisory Com
mittee will study all of the informa
tion available on the new variety
and make a recommendation on
whether it should be released for
farmer planting. Plant breeders
have made a "gentleman's agree
ment', to abide by the committee's
recommendation.
No agency or private breeder can
place more than five entries a year
i in the small plot tests, and no more
than two entries a year in the reg
ional farm tests. This means that 1
no tobacco breeder in the future 1
will have more than two new varie
ties to release annually.
Also, since two years of testing
are required under the new pro
gram. oo new varieties will be re
leased this year for farmer plant
ing next year. Some of the tobaccos
being tested in 1963 and 1964 could
be ready for planting in 1963, how
ever.
Regardless of when the first van
ieties will be ready, t)r. Jones is
optimistic about their acceptance.
'"With the efforts that the members
of the Advisory Committee are put
ting forth and the cooperation we
are receiving from all Segments of
the tobacco industry, this volunteer
program is bound to help our var
Card Of Thanks
We wish to express our heartfelt
appreciation to our countless fri
ends and relatives during our re
cent bereavement. Each act of
kindness and thoughtfulness was a
tower of strength to us and will
be a consoling memory in the days
to come.
Mrs. Ben Wallace and Family.
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