Tobacco -
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straight stripped, X-2 is good
quality and X-3 is low quality.
Y grades, Y-l and Y-2, are used
to describe farm filler crops and
N grades, N-l, N-2 and No-G are
for frozen, substandard or con
taminated leaves.
The very finest quality tobacco,
C-l, is fine quality stripper, or
wrapper, leaves, and these
command the highest price. The
premium paid last year for C-l,
for example, was two to three
cents a pound more than the price
of X-l tobacco.
“Grading is an asset to the
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industry,” Hess says, “because it
lets the manufacturer adjust his
, -operation to take into account the
kind of tobacco he’s using. And
the cheapest place to grade
tobacco is on the farm while it’s
being baled.
“In most years, the bulk of the
crop will be sold as X-grade.
Quite often, tobacco from a
particular farm won’t warrant
the extra time it takes to get the
C-l classification. But if a farmer
has a very good crop, it should
certainly pay him to try for the
higher grade. It usually doesn’t
take that much extra time,
sometimes only a few extra
hours.- Depending on what the
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price differential is, a farmer
might be getting $3O to $6O more
per ton for his added effort.”
Hess said that many farmers
could easily sell their crop under
two grade classifications and
boost their average price per
pound. Last year, in fact, there
was one grower who sold five
different grades to the marketing
cooperative.
Agway presently buys about
ten percent of the Type 41 tobacco
grown locally, and everything
that comes into the warehouses is
graded Most of the tobacco not
bought by Agway is sold on what
Hess calls the “one-price
system”. The one price system
penalizes the man who grows a
good crop, Hess feels, because his
check is smaller than it should
be. And it rewards the man who
turns out the worst tobacco
because he actually gets more
than his crop is worth. This
system also encourages sloppy
management, Hess feels,
because it doesn’t provide any
incentive for trying to get a
quality crop.
Hess said that if local tobacco
growers want to, they can con
tinue to service their traditional
cigar filler market while at the
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same time expanding to fill the
needs of southern buyers. He said
foreign cigar tobaccos are being
used in more and more American
products, and that the rise in
small cigars has also hurt
tobacco consumption.
“Since 1966, production of Type
41 tobacco has been reduced by
about one-third,” Hess com
mented. “If growers want to keep
on growing-tobacco in Lancaster
County; they’ll have to start
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producing some product for
better markets, and they’ll have
to produce a quality crop.”
The Golden Delicious is not
only perfect for fresh eating, but
is also excellent for pies, salads,
sauce and baking, even v*hen
past the shelf life stage for eating
our of hand, says Dr. Loren D.
Tukey, Professor of Pomology at
The Pennsylvania State
University.
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