VERY INTERESTING THREAD as there seem to be regional terms that vary.
I spent a few growing up years in the Kentucky area and recall the term
cutting but also recall the term picking in Gainesville Georgia early 60's
and recall seeing the barns with tobacco drying in that manner. A few years
While I understand the term in Kentucky is cutting tobacco, because I think
with burley tobacco the entire stalk is cut - in North Carolina tobacco
(flue-cured, not burley) is "picked" or "cropped" a few leaves each week over a
four to five week season in the summer as the leaves partially "cure
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