STRAIGHT BUTTED
Tobacco Leafs
Straight Butted tobacco leafs are done by hand. When all the stem is removed leaving with just leaf that is hand strip tobacco.
Straight Butted Leafs involves conditioning tobacco with heat and moisture. So that it becomes pliable enough to enter the threshers. It involves cutting the blade of the leaf away from the stem with a machine thresher and get fairly small pieces of leaf blade