Seems to me that I remember cutting tobacco...you had a cutter and a spearpoint...you put the spearpoint on one end of the tobacco stick and stabbed the other end in the ground. You cut ten tobacco plants and used the point (sharp) to poke a hole in the stalk and slide them down on the stick. Then you removed the point and went to the next stick. Theres tobacco cutters and then theres tobacco cutters...some of those tough little thin built fellows would be to the end of their row and headed back before I got to the end of mine. When you got enough cut, you'd load it on a wagon and haul it to the barn and climb up in the top and stand on three inch poles to hang it. Another job for those thin built fellows. After it was all in the barn, it was Miller time...and believe me you needed it...that's a tough job...and you're not done yet cause next is to strip it when it is in case, I believe they call it. (I've never done this)Anyhow along about Christmas time they always took it to Ripley, Ohio or Maysville, Ky. to sell it. The brothers went along on this trip once and they took a fellow with them that seemed to me to be one fry short of a happy meal and as they went across the Ohio river he said "Goodbye old United States." Someone else who has raised it will probably add more to this...like sitting on the back of the tobacco planter and setting plants and it was something for me at 5 or 6 years old to look in the water tank and see crawdads in there. I never liked to sucker it though, breaking off the suckers so that the plant would put it's effort on the main leaves...that's enough...ohfred
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