AMERICAN TOBACCO TYPES, USES, AND MARKETS Be 
GREEN RIVER, TYPE 36 
Green River, the second of the dark air-cured group, is grown in 
a group of counties in western Kentucky on or near the Ohio River. 
The name is derived from the river of the same name which flows into 
the Ohio between Henderson and Owensboro, the two markets 
handling the bulk of the Green River production. The remaining 
part of the crop is sold at Madisonville, Ky. 
This type (fig. 16) is used to some extent for chewing tobacco and 
to a smaller extent in smoking tobacco and snuff. In former years 
its principal outlet was the export trade, especially with Great Britain. 
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Figure 16.—Typical Yellow Pryor tobacco plant, commonly grown in the Green 
River district of Kentucky. 
The increasing consumption of cigarette types has lessened the 
demand for Green River, and production is now on a relatively small 
scale. 
Formerly the Green River or type 36 district was centered mainly 
around Owensboro, Ky. Lying immediately to the west was the 
Henderson fire- cured, or stemming district, type 24. The principal 
difference beween the two types lay in the curing methods employed— 
air curing and fire curing, respectively. The Green River district as 
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