. The selection of tobacco seed plants . e facilities for it, to pick the leavesfrom the separate seed plants, when they are ripe, cure them asusual in the barn with the rest of the crop, keeping the leavesof each plant by themselves, suitably labeled. If opportunityoffers, let them be fermented with other tobacco during thewinter. They can then be judged quite fairly as to burn, colorsand texture, and the seed of the very best of them saved forthe following crops. When the pods are mature, the seed heads, bags and all,should be cut off, and hung up in a dry, airy place, wherethey can thorough
. The selection of tobacco seed plants . e facilities for it, to pick the leavesfrom the separate seed plants, when they are ripe, cure them asusual in the barn with the rest of the crop, keeping the leavesof each plant by themselves, suitably labeled. If opportunityoffers, let them be fermented with other tobacco during thewinter. They can then be judged quite fairly as to burn, colorsand texture, and the seed of the very best of them saved forthe following crops. When the pods are mature, the seed heads, bags and all,should be cut off, and hung up in a dry, airy place, wherethey can thoroughly dry out with a free circulation of drying it is a good plan to keep them where the tempera-ture does not fall much below zero. In the spring, when thetime comes for the preparation of the seed for sowing, thelargest and best pods should be picked off by hand, and thor-oughly threshed out to remove all seed. The seed should thenbe separated with the seed separator in the way described inBulletin 149 of this Station. PLATE Differences in characters of leaves from plants of the same variety of tobacco. PLATE ILselectionoftobac00sham
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