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This three-row tobacco primer is operated by four men. developed by the Gay-Bell Corp. of Paris, Ky. Although Tip
The leaves are primed by hand, placed in a vertical con- it has been in use for several years on farms owned by
veyor which moves the leaves past a device which places a the developers, it has not been placed on the market. _. .
loop or chain stitch around each group of three leaves. (Mention of commercial names in this article should not _
The continuous string of leaves then travels into a burlap be construetl to be an endorsement of the products.)   _
bag for transporting to the barn. The machine is being _ ’
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to cut labor and costs long associated »¤ ~
with growing and harvesting burley
the highest quality. \zVhen timeliness is considered _
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. ·1lon Y with total labor re uirements the two most criti-
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cal production areas are: (1) establishing the crop lll ,,
Tobacco mechanization im Jlies the inte rrated use the Held, which includes nlant bed work and trans- _
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of a system of machines and methods to produce to- planting; and (2) harvesting, which includes topping c
haeco, from seeds to marketable product. The deve- and suckering, and cutting and housing. v QV
lopment of functional requirements and specifications Direct field planting of tobacco seeds represents a __
for this system is the objective of the tobacco mechani- possible method of establishing plants in the field with
zation research program of the Agricultural Engineer- a substantial saving in labor and costs. Such a method , vt
ing Departinent. would eliminate the time-consuming tasks of plant bed
The average total hand labor requirement for the preparation and care, pulling plants, and transplant-  
production of bnrley tobacco in Kentucky is -109 man- ing. V V
hours per acre. The total hand labor requirement for One obstacle to direct field planting of tobacco is
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each of the various production operations in tobacco the very small physical size of the seeds. Burley seeds ”
production is indicative of the basic need for focusing were sent to a commercial company in California hav- QV V `
some attention on mechanization. Some production ing equipment to place a spherical coat of clay of any 1 .
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operations, however, need to be performed within a specified diameter around each seed. The increased
limited o itimum time ieriod if the ( ualitv of the cro > uhvsical size and the uniform sha ie of each seed af-
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is to be preserved. For example, harvesting must be forded by this clay coat facilitated mechanical hand-
done at just the right stage of leaf maturity to get ling and more accurate placement of the seeds.
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