DistillingJim: perhaps I should try to re-tell the old Swedish story of the man behind Haga-Flue. Becorse I finally understand why things hapend.. I start like this peaple always trying to make things just a little better. And so was him. He was an old farmer like the most tobacco grower at that time. And he was trying to cross different variants wiht etchother to get the best variant. But when times was changed the tobacco company didn't allowed it. So if he should sell any tobacco he was need to bay small plants and put in the grownd. First he get problem with them so he contact the company and told them that he would like to grow his Haga- Flue next season. The answer was then no, you grow what we tell you if you shall grow anything. Then he say ok but don't give me this variant anymore
The company say. You grow the stuff we tell you or you are out! Okay but please give me Tofta type of tobacco please, I have grow it many times with out problem like this. The season after the man get his plants and after a while new problem started. So he contact the company again and a man from the company come and look at his grow and after a time he put his hand in his pocket and told him you was getting more for your tobacco last season then you should have. This year I can't pay you a penny more then we get from your tobacco and look around you self you have nothing to sell. After that he took his hand up from the pocket and drop a mynt on the grownd and stamped on it and told the man I dosent give you that! Then he started to go. The farmer crermed "but I don't understand, this have newer happened with Tofta before". The man from the company answerd what? Tofta, nope this ain't Tofta eather. After that they fight til the farmer was laying on the grownd. After that season now on was growing tobacco in Sweden again. So I don't know how much of the story that is true. But I know that the farmer had the first and only Blue mold attack. And I know that the last time Tofta was growing for industrial use was 1958 or 1959 the year after the only variant that was growing in South Sweden shall have been Alida tobacco or a tobacco that the company's research station (Svalöv) was given (I think that it was the same variant).