Interview with William K. Hendrick, February 6, 1988

Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project

Interview Summary

County Extension Agent, Henderson County, Lewisport, personal background, importance of tobacco in Henderson County area, types of tobacco, description of dark tobacco plant, cultural practices in planting tobacco, acreage vs. poundage, brown root rot and blue mold, insect problems, timetable for setting, transplanting, and cutting, topping dark tobacco, weather needed for curing, stripping tobacco, explanation of grading, Imperial, earlier importance of horses and mules, difference in price between dark tobacco and burley, soybeans in Henderson County, county farm income, tenants, farm crisis impact on Henderson County, Owensboro as marketplace, work as county extension agent, rastice plow, future of tobacco

Interview Accession

1995oh165_ff495

Interviewee Name

William K. Hendrick

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

1988-02-06

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

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Hendrick, William K. Interview by John Klee. 06 Feb. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Hendrick, W.K. (1988, February 06). 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.

Hendrick, William K., interview by John Klee. February 06, 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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