Comments on: Tobacco from the Window of Big Mill Country Inn

By: Henry

Henry — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:07:09 +0000

The last paragraph is not true the tobacco is still cured and solt but it is not auctioned off it is packed into 700-800lbs bales after it is cured and taken to market under a contract with a tobacco company EX: Phillip morris

By: Deborah Walston Putnam

Deborah Walston Putnam — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:16:53 +0000

I'm trying to decorate a table for a church function with the theme of "Tobacco Heritage", and having grown up in Farmville in the 1950's on a tabacco farm– it was a way of life for me. I'm having such a hard time finding anything now–tobacco is so taboo, so it's nice to see others that loved the family way of life and the entire culture that tobacco farming represented. Any pictures of tobacco or snippets of memories from that time would be greatly appreciated. I was glad to see the picture of the tobacco truck, my husband promised to build me a model of one– I just have to show him how they looked ! That's not as easy as it sounds.

By: Donald R Smith

Donald R Smith — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:32:45 +0000

Your short articles & pics brought back a lot of memories of my teen years in Wayne County, NC during the 1960s. I was a truck driver, driving mules and later, tractors. The act of pulling the leaves off the stalk was called cropping by us. Part of being a truck driver was to harness the mules and to remove those wooden wheels from the trucks, aka wooden trailers, and grease the axles before everyone else arrived to start work. The switch to tractors and ‘trucks’ with automobile tires later on elminated these chores. I still remember the sweet aroma that wafted across the yard when the tobacco had finished curing the barn doors were opened. I also hung the tobacco in barn, a whole barn by myself! They would poke it up to me as they finished a stick and I would hang it on the tiers. Most barns were 18 tiers high, some were 21, and they all had four rooms. I would accompany the first truck in the field so I could estimate how many total sticks there would be. That way, I could divide the number of rooms and tiers so that the sticks could be evenly spaced throughout the barn. This allowed the heat to flow more evenly for curing.

By: Tobacco Industry News

Tobacco Industry News — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:09:59 +0000

Hey Chloe!
Nice work, its rare case where people have the ideas about the life cycle of the tobacoo plant. Its really takes a long time and hard labor to produce tobacco.