This interview explores how tobacco and the life of one of Maysville's leading citizens were tied together. Mr. Finch built a tobacco warehouse and started a radio station whose call letters stand for World's Finest Tobacco Market (WFTM).
Mrs. Comer is a landlord and discusses her relationship with a tenant. She also has been in the newspaper business for sixty years, and her description of the auction system is a high point of the interview.
Mr. Brown's interview is an especially meaningful one since Logan County is home for the three general types of tobacco grown in Kentucky- dark air-cured, dark fire-cured, and air-cured barley. Mr. Brown is both a farmer and warehouseman. Finally,...
Mr. McDaniel was at the time of this interview President of the Burley Tobacco Cooperative Association, and that organization is the main focus of the interview.
S.A. Parker, Jr. discusses the Parker Tobacco Company in Maysville, Kentucky. Topics include the history of the company, when he started working in the company, company operation, where tobacco is purchased and sold, how the tobacco market is...
In the tobacco area, Mr. Clay was instrumental in the formation of several organizations that are now central to the tobacco industry. One example is the Tobacco Institute. This is a very good interview for a deeper understanding of the sequence of...
This interview is with the Kentucky Commission of Agriculture. It is a short interview as Mr. Boswell arrived late and had to leave for another appointment. The interview with Mr. Nichols (1983OH03.26) deals more in depth with the responsibilities...
Mr. Wilson, a tobacco farmer in Brown County, Ohio, remembers the type of tobacco his father raised, saving seed for next years crop until hybrid seeds became more available, changes in the methods of raising tobacco, tobacco plants are much larger...
Interview provides data about the growing of tobacco and the warehouse business from 1920 to the present. Mr. Spiller worked on farms and warehouses in Mason County.
Pinkerton Tobacco Company is the largest producer of loose leaf chewing tobacco and plug tobacco in the world. All their operations are in Owensboro, KY. Mr. Pittman is the executive vice-president at Pinkerton, which essentially means he is in...
Clinton Bramel talks about being a tobacco buyer for the Parker Tobacco Company. Topics include the training he received, working as a relief buyer, relationships between buyers, relationships between buyers and auctioneers, the tobacco market,...
Mrs. Hamilton speaks of her life and work as a farm wife. Topics include share cropping, raising tobacco, children helping farm, the increase in farming with chemicals, beliefs about planting or cutting tobacco, amber days (Farmers Almanac), how...
Mr. Darnell is a retired buyer for the Parker Tobacco Company (Maysville, KY). He discusses many aspects of the business after the tobacco has left the farm.
Second interview with Mr. Berry which includes some of his personal history, politicians, and the opposition to the co-op of the manufacturers and others.
The role and duties of the tobacco auctioneer are discussed by the world's top auctioneer, a title Mr. Cage won twice in the accepted contest in Virginia.
