• Western district fire-ciired, type 23, planted in a small 

 area bounded by the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi 

 Rivers, with a Kentucky crop total in 1971 of 6,753,000 

 pounds. Fire-cured types are strongly flavored, and 

 light- to dark-brown in color. 



• Green River, a dark air-cured tobacco, type 36, pro- 

 duced in the river territory lying between the market 

 towns of Owensboro and Henderson in northwestern 

 Kentucky. A little over four million pounds was pro- 

 duced in 1971. It is an important ingredient (together 

 with Burley) of fine-cut chewing tobacco. Some of it is 

 manufactured directly into smoking tobacco and snuff. 



• One Sucker, a dark air-cured tobacco, type 35, farmed 

 in a small part of south-central Kentucky. The total 

 crop in the state in 1971 was 9,000,000 pounds. The leaf 

 has several uses: in plug and twist chewing tobaccos, 

 in short-filler cigars, and in an exported pipe tobacco. 



This type is characterized by very long, narrow leaves 

 with exceptionally large midribs. Its name derives from 

 an essential cultural routine. Second-growth sprouts 

 ("suckers") appear at leaf axils after the top of the 

 plant has been broken off. ( Topping maintains nourish- 

 ment in the plants.) These suckers must be removed 

 several times in some types during the growing season. 

 FoiTnerly, the operation was necessary only once with 

 One Sucker tobacco prior to harvesting. 



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It requires an impressive number of people— about a 

 quarter of the United States tobacco farm population— 

 to grow and harvest and cure Kentucky leaf and prepare 

 it for market. A recent survey indicates that there are 

 170,000 of these early-rising late-abedding farm families 

 in Kentucky. All but 15 percent of them were growers 



