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Tobacco Crop

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Larry in GA.

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2008 tobacco crop ready to cut with all the grain pictures I thought you might like a change
Larry
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Larry,

How is that harvested these days? Spent a summer in a friend of the family's fields once, wasn't very pleasant.
JBM
 
My late granddad grew that in SW Virginia back in the early 1900's. My late dad chewed Mail Pouch and smoke a pipe. He always chewed when in any of the barns. Hal
 
Is that burley? Seems awful early to be cutting, if it is. Looks fairly even from the pic, hope it weighs heavy!
 
Picture is kinda small but it looks like flue cured.

The way I remember it, you took about 4 full of p!ss and vinegar teenage boys. Each had 2 rows a piece. You'd pull 2,3 maybe 4(whatever was ripe) leaves from the bottom of each plant. Once ya got your arm so full ya couldn't pack anymore under it, you put it in the backa slide being pulled down the middle row by an ole mule.
When the slide was full someone usually on a Farmall cub or A would pull it back to the barn for tying.
When ya had enough for a barn or sometimes 2, the boys would climb up in the barn on the tier poles and hang it for curing.
After all was done and the farmer paid up for the days work, you headed off to town to find someone hanging out on the corner to go in the store and get you a cold beverage or 3. Maybe even a bottle of Ripple for the drive-in that night.
Looking back, them was the good ole days. :>)
 
looks like it has rained there Here in NC hot an dry nothing looks that good here in need of rain for the crops
 
I’m not at all familiar with tobacco in the South, but up here they grow a bit in Southwestern Ontario and in my opinion nothing smells as wonderful as a barn full of drying tobacco. The aroma is out of this world!
Thanks for the photo and good luck.
 
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