Interview with Claude Brewer, Jr., February 26, 1988
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Fleming County, Flemingsburg, farm implement business, how he got into the business, tobacco setters, improvement in equipment, farm implement companies, importance of repair business, changes in tractors over the years, cost of tobacco setters, cost of tractors, how tobacco farming has declined over the years and impact on his business, bankruptcies, competition changes over the years, buying used equipment, relationship among farm implement dealers, round balers, stripping machines, merger of national farm implement businessesInterview Accession
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Heritage farmsInterview LC Subject
Agricultural innovations. Agricultural machinery Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Baling Burley tobacco Conglomerate corporations Consolidation and merger of corporations Family farms Farm tractors Plows Tobacco farmers Tobacco industry Tobacco--Equipment and supplies Tobacco--KentuckyInterview Rights
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Brewer, Claude, Jr. Interview by John Klee. 26 Feb. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Brewer, C., Jr. (1988, February 26). Interview by J. Klee. Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Brewer, Claude, Jr., interview by John Klee. February 26, 1988, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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