Tobacco and Kentucky by W. F. Axton

Author:W. F. Axton [Axton, W. F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV), Business & Economics, Industries, Agribusiness, Nature, Plants, General
ISBN: 9780813184647
Google: LksoEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21T22:13:29+00:00

1. Another Brown County, Ohio, farmer, Samuel Ellis, may also have grown this same mutant strain of “bright” Burley in 1865, some think.

2. That is to say, “dry,” or lacking the heavy load of natural sugars to be found in Red Burley and the other dark, western strains—a crucial consideration in the later success of White Burley.

3. Even with today’s much-truncated sales season, Burley markets close a week or two before Dark-fired leaf sales begin, although western leaf is harvested earlier than Burley. This longer curing period seems to be a function of the larger quantity of natural sugars and oils in dark leaf.

4. Humiliating as it is to admit, Kentucky stood well down the list of tobacco manufacturing states, after Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan.

5. But Louisville sold over 65,000 hogsheads in 1880.

6. Students will find the Tenth Census of 1880 a mine of information on all aspects of leaf cultivation and manufacture. For example, it shows that “colory” lugs were selling for between $7.00 and $9.00 per hundredweight, while “fine leaf” went for $20.00–$24.00. Dark or Red Burley “shipping” leaf, sun- and air-cured filler (for plug), “African” leaf (what is now called “Black Fat”), and leaf for the Regie (European state tobacco monopolies) ranged in price from $2.00 per hundredweight for “poor lugs” to $40.00 for “fine, light wrapper.” The heavy, stripped Green River leaf went to England or into domestic “Fine-cut Chewing Tobacco.”

7. In those days, the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes could not by law be carried on in the same factory with chewing and smoking tobaccos.

8. So important was Pennsylvania in the early history of the big black American cigar that the “stogie” was a Pennsylvania invention, its name a contraction of “Conestoga,” the wagon that carried western settlers to their new lands, all contentedly puffing stogies most likely made in Philadelphia. The state continues to be a major grower of cigar leaf. In 1890 Lancaster County marketed a level 19 million pounds of leaf, the biggest one-county crop in the country.

Other states that continue to grow significant amounts of cigar leaf include Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. In the latter two, along the Connecticut River Valley, fine leaf for cigar wrappers is grown under light muslin cover stretched over high frameworks. The most costly of all leaf raised in the United States, Shade-grown tobacco was fetching $4.00 a pound in 1973, when Burley brought a record 93 cents.

9. By 1885 Lorillar’s huge Jersey City plant was producing 10 percent of all the nation’s manufactured tobacco products. By 1890 only Liggett and Myers’s immense Saint Louis works exceeded Lorillard in poundage. Sixteen years later, Lorillard’s 25 million pounds of chewing tobaccos was behind both Saint Louis and Louisville; but the Jersey City giant manufactured an additional 14 million pounds of pipe mixtures.

10. Reynolds and Hanes was the forerunner of the modern R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which revolutionized the tobacco industry in 1913 with the introduction of “Camel” cigarettes. Reynolds’s inroads into the plug

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