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" FEDERAL REGISTER, Friday , December 1, 1939
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Grade X3D Good Quality Lugs in Dark Color.
Fairly heavy body, otherwise same as X3L.
X3M Good Quality Lugs Mixed in Color.
Heavy body, quality of X3 or better.
X3C Good Quality Lugs in Dark Green Color.
Heavy body, quality of X3 or better, except maturity.
X4L Fair Quality Lugs in Light Color.
Not tender, unmixed in color. Toler ance, 20% dead and trashy leaves.
X4F Fair Quality Lugs in Brown Color.
Specifications same as X4L.
X4D Fair Quality Lugs in Dark Color.
Specifications same as X4L.
X4M Fair Quality Lugs Mixed in Color.
Medium body, average quality of X4.
X4G Fair Quality Green Lugs.
Medium body, quality of X4.
X5L Low Quality Lugs in Light Color.
Unmixed in color. Tolerance, 40%
dead and trashy leaves.
X5F Low Quality Lugs in Brown Color.
Specifications same as X5L.
X5D Low Quality Lugs in Dark Color.
Specifications same as X5L.
X5M Low Quality Lugs Mixed in Color.
Average Quality of X5.
X5G Low Quality Green Lugs.
Quality of X5.

29.106 N ondescript an d scrap N & S
groups.
G rade D escription an d Specifications u .s.
Grade N
Nondescript, as defined.
S Scrap, as defined.

29.107 Term s defined. For the pur poses of these official standard grades, the following terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean:
Airdried. The condition of unfer mented tobacco as customarily prepared for storage under natural atmospheric conditions by rehanging in well-ven tilated houses after it is cured and stripped.
Body. The thickness of a leaf or weight per unit of surface.
Class. A m ajor division of tobacco based on characteristics caused by varie ties, soils, or climatic conditions, and the methods of cultivation, harvesting, or curing.
Clean. Normally free of dirt and other foreign matter.
Condition. The state of tobacco in storage, or in relation to its preparation for storage, with reference to its man ner of preparation or its degree of fer mentation, such as Undried, Airdried, Steamdried, Sweating, Sweated, and R e sweated.
Crude. Very immature or the lowest degree of maturity. Any tobacco of which 50% or more of its surface has a positive green color is crude.
Cured. Tobacco dried of its sap by either natural or artificial processes.
Damage. The effect of mold, must, rot, black-rot, or other fungus or bacterial diseases which attack tobacco in its cured state, including tobacco having the odor of mold, must, or rot.
D ecayed. Damaged to the extent of 20% or more.
Fire-cured. Tobacco cured under arti ficial atmospheric conditions by the use
of open fires from which the smoke and fumes of burning wood are partly ab sorbed by the tobacco.
Foreign m atter. Any substance or ma terial extraneous to tobacco, including dirt, sand, stalks, suckers, straw, strings, et cetera.
Form . The stage of preparation of to bacco, such as Unstemmed and Stemmed.
G rade. A subdivision of a type ac cording to group and quality, and accord ing to color when it is of sufficient im portance to be treated as a separate factor.
G reen. Tobacco of which 20% or more of its leaf surface is predominantly green in color.
G reenish-tinge. Tobacco of which 20% of more of its leaf surface has a decided greenish-cast or tobacco which is not 20% green but which has 20% of green and greenish-cast combined.
Group. A division of a type covering several closely related grades based on the general quality of the tobacco, in cluding body, the percentage of injury, and other characteristics.
Injury. Hurt or impairment from any cause except damage. Injured tobacco shall include dead, burnt, bail-cut, or ragged tobacco; or tobacco that has been torn or broken, frozen or frosted, sun burned or scalded, scorched or fire-killed, bulk-burnt or steam-burnt, pole-burnt or house-burnt, bleached or bruised; or to bacco containing discolored or deformed leaves; or tobacco hurt by insects; or to bacco having an odor foreign to the type;
or tobacco affected by wild-fire, rust, frog-eye, mosaic, frenching, sand-drown, or other similar diseases.
L eaf-scrap . Unstemmed scrap, which is a by-product from handling unstemmed tobacco consisting of loose and tangled whole or broken leaves.
Lugs. Any lot of tobacco, except non descript and scrap, composed chiefly of comparatively thin and lean leaves, and showing a material amount of injury of the kind characteristic of leaves grown near the ground; or any tobacco, except nondescript and scrap, injured or con taining lug leaves, in excess of the tol erance allowed in the grades of the B, C, and T groups.
M ixed .in co lor. A lot of tobacco which contains 30% or more leaves of distinctly d ifferen t color from the run of the lot, including variegated leaves unless such leaves are indicated by a special factor, and which contains less than 20% of green.
M ixed in qu ality. A lot of tobacco which contains 30% or more leaves of distinctly differen t group or quality from the rim of the lot.
N ested. Any lot of tobacco which has been so loaded, packed, or arranged as to conceal foreign m atter or tobacco of inferior grade, quality, or condition, in cluding lots of tobacco which contain damaged, injured, tangled, or other in ferior tobacco which cannot be readily detected upon inspection on account of the way the lot was packed or arranged.

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N ondescript. Any nested or decayed tobacco; or muddy or extremely dirty tobacco; or tobacco containing an un usual amount of foreign m atter; or to bacco containing over 30% of crude leaves; or tobacco infested with live to bacco beetles or other injurious insects;
or wet tobacco; or uncured tobacco in cluding fat-stem s and wet-butts; or very inferior lots of tobacco of a quality that is not ordinarily marketed; or to bacco having characteristics distinctly foreign to the type.
Quality. A division of group, forming the second factor of a grade, based upon the relative degree of one or more of the elements of quality in tobacco.
R esw eated. The condition of tobacco which has passed through a second fer mentation under abnormally high tem peratures, or refermented with a rela tively high percentage of moisture, in cluding tobacco which has been dipped or reconditioned after its first fermenta tion and put through a forced or artifi cial sweat.
Scrap. A by-product from handling tobacco in both the unstemmed and stemmed forms, consisting chiefly of por tions of tobacco leaves, except stems, which accumulate in warehouses, pack ing and conditioning plants, and stemmeries.
Side. Any distinct characteristic of tobacco; or a certain phase of quality, color, or length as compared with some other phase of quality, color, or length.
Size. The length of tobacco leaves.
Sound. Free of damage.
S pecial factor. Any side of a grade, or characteristic of importance, varying from or not covered by the specifications of the grade.
Steam dried. The condition of unfer mented tobacco as customarily prepared for storage by means of a redrying ma chine or other steam-conditioning equip ment.
Stem . The midrib of a tobacco leaf.
Stem m ed. A form of tobacco from which the stems or midribs have been re moved, including both strips and stripscrap.
Stem s. A tobacco by-product com posed of the midribs of tobacco leaves.
Stouts. A term used to designate to bacco of the heavy leaf or B group.
Strips. The sides of tobacco leaves from which the stems have been removed.
S trip-scrap. Stemmed scrap or stem less scrap, which is a by-product from stemming tobacco or handling strips, consisting chiefly of portions of strips.
Subgrade. Any grade modified by a special factor or subgroup symbol.
Subgroup. A group formed by the sub stitution of a different group symbol to denote a modification of the specifications or to indicate a certain side or character istic of the tobacco.
Sw eated. The condition of tobacco which has passed through one or more fermentations natural to tobacco packed with a normal percentage of moisture.