Data on the current tobacco industry in Tennessee have been 

 supplied by the Economic Research Service and Agriculture Marketing 

 Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Other data 

 on the current industry are derived from publications of the Tennessee 

 Crop Reporting Service and the Agriculture Extension Service of the 

 University of Tennessee. 



Special notes of thanks are due to Mr. Beryl C. Nichols, research 

 agronomist with the tobacco experiment station at Greeneville; Mr. 

 Robert Hobson, Tennessee Crop Reporting Service, Nashville; Miss 

 Lissa Brandon, Tennessee Department of Agriculture, Nashville; Mrs. 

 Dorothy Glasser and other staff members at the Tennessee State 

 Library and Archives, Nashville; Mr. Luther H. Keller, University of 

 Tennessee, Department of Agriculture Economics and Rural Sociology, 

 Knoxville; and to Mr. Johnny D. Braden of U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture's Economic Research Service, Washington, D. C. 



Material on the history of tobacco in Tennessee came from Tobacco: 

 Its Culture in Tennessee by J. B. Killebrew, Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, Statistics and Mines (1876); The Country Store in Post Civil 

 War Tennessee by Thomas D. Clark, East Tennessee Historical So- 

 ciety, Volume 17, Knoxville (1945); History of Agriculture in the 

 Southern United States To 1860 by LeviMs Cecil Gray, volumes I and 

 II (1958); The Story of Tobacco in America by Joseph C. Robert 

 (1952); Tobacco and Americans by Robert K. Heimann (1960); 

 Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee by J. B. Killebrew, assisted 

 by J. M. Safford, Ph.D., M.D., Nashville (1874); Tennessee, A 

 History 1673-1932 by Philip M. Hammer, Ph.D., Vol. II, American 

 Historical Society, Inc. ( 1933); The Pioneer Farmer and His Crops in 

 the Cumberland Region by Harriet Simpson Amow, Tennessee His- 

 torical Quarterly, Vol. XIX, No. 4 (1960); Tennessee Earth Factors 

 in Settlement and Land Use by S. R. Whitaker, Tennessee Historical 

 Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 3 (1946); The Tobacco Night Riders of 

 Kentucky and Teimessee, 1905-1909 by James O. Nail, Louisville 

 (1939). 



The Killebrew quotations on page 29 and 30 are from Tobacco: 

 Its Culture in Tennessee; the Felix Ewing quote on page 33 is from 

 The Tobacco Night Riders of Kentucky and Tennessee. 



Permission to quote directly from this booklet is granted. 



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