Interview with James "Jim" McPherson, June 18, 1987
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project
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Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service district director for far western Kentucky, crops in that area including grain sorghum and burley, both dark-air cured and dark fire-cured, importance of tobacco to far western Kentucky, description of dark fire-cured burley, description of the acreage system, problems with dark tobaccos including foreign imports and cuts, types of dark tobacco, pinhooking, handtied tobacco, firing the tobacco, trends in dark-fired tobacco, federal regulation of farmingInterview Accession
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Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Burley tobacco Family farms International trade Tobacco farmers Tobacco industry Tobacco--Government policy Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Law and legislation Tobacco--Marketing Tobacco--Varieties United States--Officials and employees United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation ServiceInterview Rights
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McPherson, James Interview by John Klee. 18 Jun. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
McPherson, J. (1987, June 18). 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.
McPherson, James, interview by John Klee. June 18, 1987, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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