ADAMS, Tenn. (WSMV) - Fire officials are saying high winds are to blame after a tobacco barn was destroyed in a fire, ...

The chopping of the tobacco stalk, stacking the leaves on spear-studded sticks, loading the sticks onto a passing flatbed truck and hanging the stalks – row upon row – in barns to cure.

The barns contained a lot of tobacco belonging to Presley Strickland, a cropper of Burr, who is not a member of the Dark Tobacco Growers' Protective Association. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...