(White) Burley Tobacco

Since Burley is plant in Switzerland, it become, tradition for the Farmers to Plant it as Family farming. I am as praktikant in Fritz Herren Farming, Lurtigen, Canton Fribourg doing harvesting and drying this kind of Tobacco.

In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted Red Burley seeds he had purchased, and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. He transplanted them to the fields anyway, where they grew into mature plants but retained their light color. The cured leaves had an exceedingly fine texture and were exhibited as a curiosity at the market in Cincinnati. The following year he planted ten acres (40,000 m²) from seeds from those plants, which brought a premium at auction. The air-cured leaf was found to be mild tasting and more absorbent than any other variety. White Burley, as it was later called, became the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. The white part of the name is seldom used today, since red burley, a dark air-cured variety of the mid-1800s, no longer exists.

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Science & Technology

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• tobacco
• tabak
• burley
• lurtigen
• switzerlan
• phillip
• morris
• agriculture
• iaas

[valstar1000]

I was born in switzerland

[timhemp]

dass ish da geil !!

[FarmerFred6969]

Greetings from an American Burley Producer.

[CMMorgillo]

Don't the people use sewing machine for the leaves

watch mi videos and let me know

[dancidelics]

Thats a lot of smoke!