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TIN °W` M'any ~ 44 ~1 ~~ ~n9 W h ,~ ~ w ti Lea''' Seledsl 41'. c 2~'i~~ ' `ti~~ ~T~^~f Q"~ZYAU HAVE been living in Geor- ~~ ~Fia's largest tobacco praducmg y ~ area but our guess would be that ~~ you don t know how many tobac ~co seed the~re are m an ~ounce cf~~~~ ~ f~The question has been asked ~ ' many times over. Those who pos- t; ~':: ed the query received all kinds of ~answers ,'aY: NOW IT'IS official. There aro an - r{,,+;t>.-average of 314,000 tobaceo seed per - ounce. And you might have guess Y` j ed a branch of the U:S: govern, ~ ~k. ment has settled the argument by' a. • ;`. actual,tount Ir~- . Tobacco News an institute pub• t t lication, revealS that a Tobacco re- x<'search physiologi,st took 15 difter- eat varieties of tobacco seed,amcd ,',beighed them individuatly and col- lectively. He found'that the aver- C, ige weight for the varieties was *109?'milligrams, or an average of' 314.t/o0iseed per ounce. y x ;~ ~ _ , .. : . . .. ,a: . ~ Yhe heaviest variety of fabac- eo seed contained 1240.oou per,ounce . :and the lightest contained 430JOO0. 7he next question war: how can i ~ -'one easily measure an ounce of _ .-'seed with'out.the.u•-,e of balances? The researcher fuund that'there " :-arc,an averageoflfour tablespoons of tobacco seed to the ounee- One tablespoon of'seedl iss coosidered. . . enough top,fantthree to,four acres, '. oftobaeco.for.harvesting,, ... ~'f ~ 7.., " =BN'A' TOBACCO growing sec. . :-,-6on, such as we have in south, Georgia, the analytical report on toliaeco.seed eontains anoth'erin-teresting pant: Resear nens found that tobacco seed increase their weight , 20;000.000 times in fivee months frore germination to b'ar- JWRNAT.rHFRALD y Waycrost3, Georg3a s ' :;~Tanuary 29. 1962 <~'~y~ ~t~c, kt.^. .x;11YIAUlitrie Observer ' ~~ The report on the tobaeco seed concludes wittt~ this comment.: •'Evensn aeorn, which becomes a huge oak tree, doesn't grow this much in a century." ~ Knowing this; most of'us will look with new interest,at the next tobacco crop. ~; . ® ~ t ". 1.Gl11AC L1 ;:Lexington, Kentucky, ` Janllary 29, 1962 r ? Farm and Home Extension Sers-ice 5 1 ' By, CHARLES H. GVIJIIEY. . , - Fayette Agrieutttu'al A6ent: 77ie SOth Annuali Farmx and Home Week Program gets under. wad9 Vuos4y ats!p Uqiversjty of Keat$C4 Outst~tding,,soeakers. . 'Wffi~hc 5:Xr,7. . - Tobaecn Sled -Hmv muuy tohreco seed are tbcrc in an oun-? The aaLler "'was 1;ivcnrcornUy- tit Tob.'+.,ro: 4~Iews~l4~Ate seed pernu,w.-- -Bowdid they arrmce at t6is tig- - are?. Well. 50 secdss were counted out and weighed on an analytical balance. since no nrdina..ryscaley would be precise cnmu--h tobc thorough. Seeds of five varietir.f of' tobacco were, coantod and ,.weighed. _. ;: Figuring', four pounds as tho, greeni weigGtot an1 averageto- " baacoo plant atharvest, they. . r' found that the tobacco seed in- "ereases its weight ZQ million times ' ta , about five tnooths; , from ger- `" mtnation to harnest n < ~ ' 3P l+Lllxaukee,, Wisconsin ~ January 30, 1962 ' 7'+ +;'_. 'edious Job: Countin unce 6f Tobaic&+o See ~.:; .. 4 ,a,. Washington, D. C.-tJPI-dt search service laboratories in' r took an agency of the United Beltsvillp, Md ;States government to settle the - Fifty seeds were counted'out' I s s u e, but now it's official: and weighed on an analytical f'There are 314,000 , t o b a c e o, balance, because no ordinary ' tf aeeds in an ounce. ° scale would be precise enough. ~ y"=d `t,'One of the tiniest yet most' To make the experdmenU as thig thorough as possible, the'seeds ~"prodigious of all seeds, q tfy, F`,sa~~ ,mighty mite has amazing prop- of:1b'varieties of tobacim were - ~a, erties One tablespoonful, is countediand'weighed- ,+ fg~Jr ~"~ ~s enm,gh to plant three or four Jeffrey found that the ayer- tR} y _.. .; acres of: land - and there are age weight per seed for all the t o u r tablespoonsful to the tobacco, vaneties is .0902 milli, ~ onnce: grams, an average of 314,000 i Yarving figures h,are been seeds per ounce. The official used andlthere have been heat; report said: "The weights of' ed arguments- Tnbanrn News, different lota of 50 tobacco official, pubhcatidn of the to seeds varied from 3:3 to 5:9 bacco industry; said a Tennes-(~!~lligtams, indicating a range "aee farmer, to settle an argu- bf n u m b e r per ounce from tnent, spent eight and a half ~30,000 for the I i g h d e s t to hours one winter day counting I40,000'for the heaviest" the seeds in a level teaspoonful The Beltsville scientists went and'reached 21,105 before his further.. Figuring,four pounds ;'--:.eyes: gave cut •' s the green weight of' a to The arguments were settled acco plant at harvest, they through a project supervised ound that the tobacco seed'. -c~a,by R. N. Jef f r e v, principal nereases its weight 20 million physiologist for tobacco inves•~ imes in, about five months- ~: tigationa at, the agricultural re- m germination to hanlesL NEWS Ki'ngaport, Tenneasee Jainuary 26, 19162 : Coffee Cup By BILL FREEHOFF 7he Tobacco Newi' infdrmsi that smoAtflg wais fashionable, among the ladies of the, firstl Queen Bess' court, that .. Mrs., Zachary Taylor and Mrs. Andy, Jackson smoked pipes, that the, senyoras of old S.nte Fe, N. M•„ smoked little cigars, and that the ta-chinnable dames of' 17th Century ; r ;-=; Pareedilpped anuR. ~ : +t,--IInfluenza, says my' dictionary„ eamc mto the lantuaaS ~, rtor•. JW63:3: 5T'?'C