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Interview Summary
Gerald Woods discusses tobacco farming. Topics include preparing, sowing, and
tending tobacco beds, preparing fields, transplanting seedlings, setting tobacco, curing, stripping and grading, choosing a warehouse, regulating allotments. Topics include the growing season, topping, dropping, cutting tobacco, hauling, hanging and selling tobacco, the cost of raising tobacco, foreign competition, tobacco disease, anti-smoking movement, the future of the industry, May's Lick farmers, and the role of the cooperative. 1:00