Interview with Robert Fielding Cage, February 6, 1986
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Auctioneer from South Boston, Virginia, personal background, training as auctioneer, early work in auctioneering, self-employment, getting hired, life of a typical auctioneer and effect on family, working different types of tobacco, selling tobacco in Africa, who profits most from tobacco sales, decline in quality of tobacco over the years, description of the auction process, buyer-auctioneer relationship, complaints from buyers, women in the tobacco business, tobacco auctioneer championships, morality of being a tobacco auctioneer, problems with the tobacco industryInterview Accession
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Heritage farmsInterview LC Subject
Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Auctioneers Auctions Baling Burley tobacco Chants Conglomerate corporations Export marketing Exports--Africa Family farms Tobacco industry Tobacco industry--Employees Tobacco industry--Maryland Tobacco workers--Women Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Varieties WarehousesInterview Rights
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Cage, Robert Fielding Interview by John Klee. 06 Feb. 1986. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Cage, R.F. (1986, 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.
Cage, Robert Fielding, interview by John Klee. February 06, 1986, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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