ONE-SUCKER TYPES OF TOBACCO. 87 
It will be noted that Daviess County produces nearly half of the 
entire quantity produced in the Green River district. 
The map (PI. II, in pocket) shows in outline the territory included 
in the Green River division of the dark air-cured districts. 
ONE-SUCKER TYPES OF TOBACCO. 
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND USEFULNESS. 
Like the tobacco of the Green River district, the One-Sucker type 
is classified as dark tobacco and like both the Burley and the Green 
River types it is cured without recourse to artificial heat, that is, it is 
an air-cured type. It is therefore adapted for use in domestic manu- 
facture and consumption, but like the Green River type it is also to a 
considerable extent exported. 
The type derives its name because the variety principally grown in 
the One-Sucker districts is known as One-Sucker tobacco from its 
habit of throwing out suckers somewhat less freely, perhaps, at the 
axils of the leaves after being topped than do most other kinds of 
tobacco. It is a narrow-leaved sort with very heavy midribs. The 
veins make a very acute angle with the midrib. On rich land it makes 
a very long, heavy leaf that is well suited for the “‘rehandling”’ export 
trade, principally to the west coast of Africa. Figure 34 shows a 
characteristic plant of the One-Sucker type. 
SUBDIVISIONS OF THE ONE-SUCKER DISTRICTS. 
SOUTHERN KENTUCKY AND UPPER CUMBERLAND SECTIONS. 
The Green River district proper, as considered above, covers only 
about half of the north and south buffer area between the Burley dis- 
trict and the dark-fired district. The southern portion of this terri- 
tory is occupied by what is known to the tobacco trade as the south- 
ern Kentucky and upper Cumberland section of the One-Sucker 
district. 
The northern part of this One-Sucker section in Kentucky is some- 
times designated as the “‘upper” Green River district in contradis- 
tinction from the (lower) Green River district proper. 
The southern part of this district, along the headwaters of the 
Cumberland River in Tennessee and Kentucky, produces a brighter 
type of leaf than does the northern part of the district. Some of this 
upper Cumberland section produces a type of leaf hardly distinguish- 
able at first glance from Burley. The country is very hilly and the 
tobacco is grown to a considerable extent on steep hillsides which, 
however, from the open, porous nature of the soil are not greatly 
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