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The origin of white burley tobacco was credited to George Webb and Joseph Fore in 1864, who grew it on the farm of Captain Frederick Kautz near Higginsport, Ohio, from seed from Bracken County, Kentucky. He noticed it yielded a different type of light leaf shaded from white to yellow, and cured differently.
Harvested white burley in Cincinnati, Ohio. White Burley, similar to Burley tobacco, is the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted Red Burley seeds he had purchased and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. He ...
Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the ... William Fairholt's Tobacco, its History and ... Virginia and white burley strains of tobacco, the smoke was ...
Marcia Mae Watson is removing the tops from one of the two rows of fine white burley which she planted and is caring for herself in 1944. The two rows, 1,320 feet long, will yield about $175 for ...
White burley tobacco was first grown near Higginsport in 1864 from seed brought from Kentucky, [8] and by the 1880s, the local economy was largely based on it. In 1883, there were seventeen tobacco warehouses and 32 different tobacco buyers, shipping approx. 2 million pounds annually down the Ohio River to New Orleans. [6]
Agriculture remains vital to the economy, with farms occupying 83.8 percent of the land area in 1982. Commodities include wheat, hay, and milk. Burley tobacco production in 1988 amounted to 5,406,000 pounds. Agricultural receipts in 1986 totaled $19,158,000 (~$45.2 million in 2023). [9]
White burley tobacco growers from Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina met at Lexington, Kentucky, and agreed not to plant a crop in 1911. [2] The town of Zillah, Washington, was incorporated. Born: Jean-Pierre Aumont, French film actor and war hero; in Paris (d. 2001)
Burley tobacco, burley tobacco hybrids, and dark tobacco are varieties of tobacco that are resistant to black shank. Resistance however is not reliable because a single variety has resistance to only a few races of black shank. Finding new lines of resistance is becoming increasingly important due to new discovered resistant races of the pathogen.