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ther types 



In addition to Burley, or type 31 as it is classified 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture, there 

 are three other tvpes of tobacco grown on Tennessee 

 farms. The collective area in which they are grown, 

 including sections of south-central and south-western 

 Kentucky, was long known as the Black Patch. 



• Eastern Dark Fired, type 22, unlike Burley is 

 fire-cured. It is grown in Montgomery, Robertson 

 and adjoining counties and in neighboring Ken- 

 tucky counties. The location of the Eastern district 

 is also known as the Hopkinsville-Clarksyille Belt. 

 In 1971, Tennessee farmers in the ten counties 

 where type 22 is grown harvested 19,453,000 pounds 

 of this type on 9,800 acres with an average yield of 

 1,985 pounds per acre. They sold their tobacco for 

 $11,905,000 at an average 61.2 cents per pound. 

 Type 22 is mainly used in the production of snufi^. 



• Western Dark Fired, type 23, also a fire-cured 

 Type, is grown west of the Tennessee River in 

 Tennessee and Kentucky. This tobacco is grown 

 and cured like Eastern Dark Fired but it is some- 

 what different because it is grown on different 

 kinds of soil. In 1971 three Tennessee counties 

 grew and harvested 983,000 pounds of this type 

 on 660 acres averaging 1,490 pounds per acre. They 

 sold the crop for $571,000 at an average price of 

 58.1 cents per pound. Like type 22, type 23 is also 

 mainly used for snuff manufacture. 



• Dark Air Cured, type 35 or One Sucker, is an 

 air cured tobacco grown mostly in Robertson, Sum- 

 ner and Macon counties. There is some type 35 

 production in surrounding counties. The plant is 



