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importance of continued support and expansion of 

 Tennessee tobacco when he said: 



Tobacco, unlike cotton, does not interfere in 



any considerable degree with the cultivation 



of the grasses or bread grains, because the 



quality of tobacco planted is not limited, as 



cotton, by the number of acres which can be 



plowed, but by the ability to worm, sucker 



and house the crop. Consequently the saving 



in the amount of plowing, as compared with 



cotton, is so great that a tobacco planter may 



always make abundant supplies of corn, hay, 



wheat and other crops . . . The tobacco crop is, 



therefore, in a degree an extra crop, which, 



while it supplies the planter with ready 



money, does not interfere with his raising 



abundant supplies. 



By the 1880's domestic manufacturers, with some 



consistency, began to purchase more of the crop than 



did exporters. Manufacturing facihties moved from 



farm areas to urban areas. Chewing tobacco was 



extremely popular, and Tennessee tobacco was a major 



source of American plug. 



eginnings of Burley 



It was after the Civil War that Burley production 

 seeped south from Ohio, through Kentucky and down 

 to Tennessee— especially in the eastern portion of the 

 state. 



In 1887, two farmers, Clisbie Austin and Silas Ber- 

 nard, procured some of the new seed and brought it 



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