'Adcock' Tobacco - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48312 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 114.01 SOLANACEAE Nicotiana tabacum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | 'Adcock' Tobacco | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | 'Adcock' Tobacco | Geography Description | India, Chirala | ||
| Uses | 'Adcock' TobaccoUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Swainson Hall R | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 28/04/1927 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Change of colour in tobacco leaf. R Swainson Hall. The I.L.T.D. ltd, Chirala M. & S.M.Ry, Madras Presidency, Southern India. In the case of change of colour of Adcock tobacco leaf after transport. It does not appear very likely that ren, ewed bacterial action would be responsible for this change. More probable the method of curing may have been unsuitable, under the climatic conditions, for producing a colour of stable character. Experiment with Adcock and Burley tobacco in Bihar are desc, ribed in the scientific reports of the Agricultural Research Institute Puna for 1925 to 26 PP 18 - 20, and an extract from this report is given in the Tropical Agriculturist, Vol 68 No 2 (1927) p 100. In these experiments, it was found that Adcock tobacco, did not ripen to a yellow colour on the field, and that a satisfactory colour was not obtained by placing the plants directly on racks in the air. The conclusion arrived at was that 'Adcock tobacco can be cured to a bright yellow colour in Bihar by first, wilting the leaf in a grass heap and then placing on racks in a warm dry atmosphere'. As dry west winds could not be relied on, a stove was used. 'A small quanity of Adcock tobacco, which had been wilted to a yellow colour in a grass heap, ..... was plac, ed on racks in a room which was heated by a closed stove. The stove was kept burning for3 days during which time the temperature in the room rose from 80 to 100 degrees F. and the humidity fell from 75 to 36% Under these conditions the bright yellow colo, ur was fixed in the leaves' LAB 26.4.27 See tobacco Solanaceae for copy of reply to Mr Swainson Hall's letter | ||||