. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . ainedby priming than cutting, consequently more money can be made bypriming. For detailed information regarding these experiments writeto North Carolina Department of Agriculture for bulletin on Primingvs. Cutting Tobacco.3 34 The Bulletin CURING AND HANDLING The expert curer exhibits his skill from the very first as he begins toharvest the crop. He cuts or primes, having clearly in mind what heexpects to accomplish in making the cure. For a uniform curing ofgood color a first requisite is that the barn be filled with plan
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. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . ainedby priming than cutting, consequently more money can be made bypriming. For detailed information regarding these experiments writeto North Carolina Department of Agriculture for bulletin on Primingvs. Cutting Tobacco.3 34 The Bulletin CURING AND HANDLING The expert curer exhibits his skill from the very first as he begins toharvest the crop. He cuts or primes, having clearly in mind what heexpects to accomplish in making the cure. For a uniform curing ofgood color a first requisite is that the barn be filled with plants or leavesof uniform ripeness and character. The first step in curing is to yellow the leaf properly. This takesplace while the plant is yet living but is slowly approaching death fromstarvation, since the food and moisture supply is cut off. To exposetoo long to the sun and air after cutting, even though actual sunburningdoes not result, greatly diminishes the vitality of the cells of the leafand it will not yellow so well. The tobacco should, therefore, be housed. without excessive wilting or long exposure to the sun and wind. As soonas the leaf is dead or dry, further yellowing takes place only very slowly, and if there remains any considerable amount of moisture in the leaf ared or brown color will immediately begin to develop. In curing, oneshould keep well in mind the principle that it is necessary to preservethe life (cell activity) and at least some of the moisture while the leafis yellowing, and so manage as to have the moisture exhausted by thetime it is completely yellow, or, rather, a little before it is fully yellow, as the most satisfactory cures and clearest colors generally follow whenthe leaf is dried out with some green remaining in it. Tobacco yellowsbest, especially in the first stages, when the temperature of the barnranges from about 80° to 100° F., but it will continue to yellow in thelater stages up to 115° or 120°. The Bulletin 35 As the yellowing p