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Reading old books on tobacco is fascinating. There are references to all kinds of tobacco varieties, processing methods, and lore that don't exist anywhere else. In reading through some of these older sources, particularly from the 1800's, I've come across numerous references to a handful of...

I've read a whole bunch of posts so far but haven't really nailed down the answer. What is primitive tobacco? What makes it a primitive type? I'm guessing these would be 'among' the first varieties that were out there before hybridizing and crossing started to develop new types. Sound right...

Raymond Stadelman, Agricultural Explorer for the USDA Article from the New York Post, Feb. 1, 1937. This is a collection of snippets from the activities of one of the USDA's agricultural specialists, who were sent across the globe during the 1930s. This sort of primary source history is...

I was reading through the links posted on this thread, and discovered this little tidbit of info in J. B. Killebrew's "TOBACCO - How to Cultivate, Cure and Prepare for Market." Published in 1900, this book has a good amount of "recent discovery" and science that took place around the...

I was nosing around the net and just happened to find the following site. It has 13 tobacco types along with a description of each. I can tell is was translated from another language because occasionally there is a word that is missing or misused, and some sentences need reading twice to...