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"Pipe tobacco" Ogilvie research station

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The Ogilvie ferme experimentale had an important place in Canada's tobacco history. The more I look into primary sources regarding some of the older strains, the more I encounter studies that were conducted there, and strains of tobacco that were created there, (along with the Ottawa research station, and the Delhi research station). A curious thing I've seen is that they used "pipe tobacco" as a tobacco type. I suspect they came up with their own nomenclature based on what the tobacco was suited for by the end user. Given some of these tobacco types go back as far as 1920, I really don't know what "pipe tobacco" would really mean. What do you think?

Here are some examples:

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sour...VHWALhEYBZ6cNhKCA&sig2=kRIl9SAlw8S8zRciI5PLQQ
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http://pgrc3.agr.ca/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acchtml.pl?48710

http://pgrc3.agr.ca/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acchtml.pl?48716

http://pgrc3.agr.ca/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acchtml.pl?48711
 

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It's stuff like this that makes this site so good. Y'all dive headfirst into any and all things tobacco. Ya gotta love that.

Interesting reading.
 

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A curious thing I've seen is that they used "pipe tobacco" as a tobacco type.
Historically, tobacco has been classified by its role in the market at its time of classification. During the second half of the 19th Century, the US had a category called, "export," which consisted of varieties for which there was an import market in Europe, but not much of a domestic market in the US.

When you think about it, a category such as "flue-cured" assumes a specific post-harvest process used for a specific product. The same for "cigar wrapper" or "cigar binder" or cigar filler." None of these categorizations alludes to attributes that are intrinsic to the tobacco variety itself. Perhaps "burley" come closest to being an actual categorization of that group of tobacco plants.

Can you use burley for a cigar wrapper? Binder? Filler? The answer is a resounding, "yes." And it can be good (or crummy) in a cigar.

Of late, governments which were once heavily into researching and promoting tobacco, as a significant trade item, have been wiggling their way out of that business. But the government categorizations have stuck.

Thanks for the interesting post.

Bob
 
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