02823nam 2200601 450 991081443970332120200520144314.00-8131-4808-1(CKB)3710000000334166(EBL)1915335(SSID)ssj0001403125(PQKBManifestationID)11777162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403125(PQKBWorkID)11379658(PQKB)10055780(OCoLC)897138374(MdBmJHUP)muse43951(Au-PeEL)EBL1915335(CaPaEBR)ebr11011572(CaONFJC)MIL690902(OCoLC)900344728(MiAaPQ)EBC1915335(EXLCZ)99371000000033416620150208h19981998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTobacco culture farming Kentucky's burley belt /John Van Willigen, Susan C. EastwoodLexington, Kentucky :University Press of Kentucky,1998.©19981 online resource (224 p.)Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-59620-4 0-8131-2066-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Editors' Preface; Preface; 1. Tobacco Culture; 2. Tobacco Ground; 3. Tobacco Labor; 4. The Tobacco Program; 5. Sowing the Beds; 6. Setting the Plants; 7, Cultivating and Topping; 8. Cutting, Housing, and Curing; 9. The Stripping Room; 10. On the Floor; 11. Burley Tobacco and Its Transformations; Notes; References Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; L; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; YWhereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a culture unlike any other in America, one often forgotten or overlooked as federal and state governments fight over the spoils of the tobacco settlement. Tobacco Culture describes the process of raising a crop of burley from the perspective and experience of the farmers themselves. In the process of gathering information for the book, the authors performed most steps in the tobacco production process, from dropping plants, burning seedbeds, topping,Kentucky remembered.Burley tobaccoKentuckyHistoryBurley tobaccoHistory.338.1/7371/09769Van Willigen John662647Eastwood Susan C.1954-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814439703321Tobacco culture4073298UNINA