THE DARK-FIRED TYPE OF TOBACCO. 45 
about 3,000,000 pounds annually, of which 2,000,000 pounds have 
been classed with the Hopkinsville district and 1,000,000 pounds 
with the Henderson or Stemming district. 
Likewise the product of Caldwell and Lyon Counties is also very 
uncertain as a whole in respect to type and classification, and to 
indicate the individuality, or rather lack of it, in the product of these 
counties it is sometimes designated as the Princeton and Eddyville 
type from the names of the chief market towns in these counties. 
Detached from the general area in Tennessee, about Tallahoma 
as a center, in the southwestern portion of Coffee County, there is a 
small area which for about 10 years past has been producing a few 
hundred thousand pounds of dark tobacco annually, partly air cured 
Fig. 18.—Hauling tobacco from the field to the curing barn, showing a common but careless method 
practiced in many sections as well as in the Paducah district, Graves County, Ky., where the pho- 
tograph was taken. 
and partly fire cured, which has generally moved to market through 
the Clarksville district. Clarksville and Springfield, Tenn., and Hop- 
kinsville, Ky., are the principal market centers for this district. 
Adairville, Cadiz, and Guthrie, Ky., are other important local 
receiving points. 
THE PADUCAH DISTRICT. 
The type of tobacco produced in the Paducah district of the west- 
ern dark-fired section is not greatly different from that of the Clarks- 
ville and Hopkinsville district. The product as a whole is not quite 
as fine and rich as that of the Clarksville district. 
Figure 18 shows a careless method which is altogether too com- 
monly practiced in handling tobacco from the field to the curing barn. 
The annual production of leaf tobacco in the Paducah district is 
about 60,000,000 pounds, about 45,000,000 pounds being produced in 
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