GREEN RIVER TOBACCO. . 85 
the western portion of the Burley district where the production is 
comparatively small. This section, including the western part of 
Bullitt, Meade, Hardin, and Larue Counties, represents a transition 
in type of soil from the typical phosphatic limestone section of 
the Burley district on the east to the dark-tobacco section on the 
west. As such it is quite an interesting feature. Until recently 
this section produced very little tobacco of any kind, but since 
1907 production has spread rapidly. ° 
The territory included in the principal Burley districts is shown 
on the map (PI. I, in pocket). 
GREEN RIVER TOBACCO. 
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS. 
Westward from the Burley district in Kentucky les a transition 
territory which produces only small quantities of tobacco. Farther 
Fig. 33.—Typical Yellow Pryor tobacco plant, a favorite dark type commonly grown in the Green 
River district of Kentucky. 
west is the Green River district, where the type of tobacco grown 
is air cured like Burley, but the general character of the seed used, 
methods of cultivation, etc., are almost the same as in the dark- 
fired district covering the remainder of western Kentucky. Figure 
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