#tobacco farm

[pinkblanc]

Shady Grove Road

Lancing, TN 1948

Photos from a tobacco farm in the Cumberland valley. The barn above was accidently blown by dynamite, but was restored and still stands today. The children of the man on the left still live on the property.

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"CLAIM REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS IN TOBACCO TRADE," Toronto Star. May 16, 1934. Page 9. ---- Retailers Afraid to Display Any But Imperial's Pro- ducts, Inquiry Told ---- SAYS THREATS MADE --- Special to The Star Ottawa, May 15. - H. C. Fortier, Montreal tobacco wholesaler, appearing before the tobacco price spreads inquiry, to-day declared he had become so calloused to complaints of Imperial Tobacco's alleged efforts to strangle all other competition that he could not begin to enumerate the various instances.

Quebec retailers were in constant fear of being cut off Imperial's buying list, he said.

Favors Price Maintenance John Hughes, secretary-treasurer of LO. Crothe, Ltd., of Montreal, said his firm was in favor of price maintenance.

His company had passed on to the consumers the lowered excise and sales tax in 1932 but nothing came out of their pockets, he said. Jobbers and retailers absorbed the 37 cents reduction not taken up by the reduced government tax.

Mr. Hughes claimed his 1931 price of 27 cents per pound was the highest paid by any tobacco buyer that year. In 1932, he paid 31 and 27 cents per pound on two purchases.

Witness said he had refused to supply jobbers who cut prices. "Did you ever refuse because the jobber did not belong to the association?"

"No."

"Do you contribute money to the association?" "In one case."

Charges Competition Strangled Mr. Hughes declared he did not like the methods used to strangle competition. "The methods used are so numerous it would take a week to enumerate them. Some salesmen for other manufacturers even go into tobacco shops and, if rivals goods are too prominently displayed, they will pick them up themselves and cart them to the back of the store. The retailer is afraid to say a word for fear of being cut off."

That applied more to cigars than cigarettes, he said. "To whom are you referring "Imperial Tobacco."

"Is that a real complaint?" "Yes. It is the general practice."

"Can you name them?" "Yes, but I ask that their names be withheld. Otherwise I fear for the consequences unless Imperial Tobacco has has a change of heart because of what has come out of this committee."

W. W. Kennedy, Winnipeg, Conservative, asked him to file the names for Investigation by the committee's investigators. "Otherwise we are dealing with fog," he pointed out.

"Nearly Life Death" Mr. Hughes charged "complete discrimination against his cigarettes. He cited the case of a Winnipeg retailer warned by Imperial Tobacco that their goods must have 80 per cent of his advertising space under penalty of losing the privilege of buying direct.

"Eighty per cent, means 100 per cent," he complained.

"I looked in 3 different windows to-day," said E. J. Young Lib.. Weyburn). "Imperial cigarettes dominated most windows dominated but I saw Macdonald's and your cigarettes in others."

Norman Sommerville. K.C. committee counsel: "If the retailer doesn't play with Imperial. It is life or death to him?" "Pretty near." Mr. Hughes said three weeks ago his firm put out a new cigarette in Toronto and put streamers on the streets. A day or so later Imperial plastered the streets with streamers advertising their brands.

"We put up more streamers to counteract this," he said. "To-day I received a wire from our Toronto manager telling me that almost all our streamers were taken down, but he could not prove anything."

Witness cited several instances of alleged threats by Imperial salesmen the tobacconist did not remove the showcases of rival firms. "This one funny," he observed. "This complaint does not affect our goods. It says the salesmen warned the retailer that he would have trouble buying direct unless he took Benson-Hedges cigar showcase off his counter."

Mr. Hughes declared the complaints widespread that the believed orders to salesmen must come direct from Imperial Tobacco head- quarters

"Have you any actual personal experience of this practice?" "No, but one retailer was ordered to produce for Imperial a record of all other brands he sold that month. He had ordered goods three or four days delivery delivery was held up.. He told us the Imperial salesman coming back the next day so we sent down some men to hide in the next room and listen to the conversation. The salesman told the retailer he was ashamed to do this but he had orders from head office. If the records were not forthcoming. the retailer could no longer buy direct from Imperial. Our men came out. The salesman saw he was trapped and the retailer got his supplies that afternoon."

Claims Signs Torn Down Only last week the signs advertising a new cigar his firm was making in Hull were torn down. Mr. Hughes said. "Who did this?" he was asked. "Imperial," he replied.

"Who says so?" "Our manager. He would not say so unless he had pretty definite evidence."

Major Kennedy: "It's a big fish eating the case of the little fish. That has gone on ever since there were fish."

Mr. Hughes: "Maybe we were fish to go into this but, now we are in, we will fight."

"But sometimes the little fish escape?" "The smaller they are, the better chance of escape they have."

All manufacturers could afford to the grower more for his tobacco were not for the premiums in packets of cigarettes, he said. "Who started this practice premiums? asked Sam Factor.

Mr. Sommerville: "Cards in cigarettes are as old as you or I. I remember when we used to get pictures of Delilah Fox, Lily Langtry and other famous actresses. They were to look at, though."

Claims Initiative Stultified Defining the practices which he said militated against free exercise of business Initiative, H. Fortier, prominent Montreal jobber distributing for Macdonald's, said: "We have found we would put up a British Consols sign and an Imperial man would come along and tell us he could sell us no longer direct. We arranged to distribute Macdonald's tobacco the Montreal unemployed. A few days later the retailer who distributed to the jobless was told he could no longer buy direct from Imperial."

A. C. Picard, vice-president of the Rock City Tobacco Co., at Leamington, makers of Spud and Master Mason cigarettes, said the retailer to-day was in "dangerously poor" condition "Every one of them will be out of business business in in a few years, years," he predicted. The retailer's share of the $75.000.000 Canada spends in smokes every year was $12,000,000, he said. This, divided among 57,000 retailers, is an average of $260, or $1 a week.

"The retailer should get 20 per cent. and the jobber 10 per cent. That's how it was until ten years ago, he said.

He often thought the heads of Imperial did not know the lengths to which their salesmen went to get business, he said. "They drive their men, who get so nervous and excitable they upset everything in their scramble for business. Imperial has 133 salesmen going around the country with 100 advertisers following them to check up on them.

"They are to keep on putting the fear of God into the heart of the retailer," he claimed. "The salesmen are frightened of losing their jobs if they don't seem to have firm enough hold on the retailers."

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photo: David Castenson

[macmanx]

For children 12 and older in the United States, difficult, low-paying and dangerous work in tobacco fields for unlimited hours is legal, as long as it's outside school hours. Child labor laws are more lenient in agriculture than in other industries, and efforts to change that have repeatedly failed, leaving growers and companies to decide whether to set the bar higher than what's legally required of them. In the meantime, kids work, often trying to help their families make ends meet.

All the while, nicotine seeps into their skin. For all tobacco workers, but especially kids, that can cause nicotine poisoning, or green tobacco sickness, whose symptoms include nausea, vomiting, headaches and dizziness.

"People should understand that the food they're eating on a daily basis is harvested by oppressed people," Cuello says. The food and other agricultural products that everyone consumes are "touched by millions of people who sometimes have no choice but to send their children to work."

[dixiecotton95]

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Zimbabwe is revitalising tobacco farming, but at what price? - The Africa Report.com

Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry is dominated by smallholder farmers who contribute more than 50% of the country’s yearly produce, according to Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (ZIMB).

The tobacco crop is one of the biggest foreign currency earners for the Southern African nation, along with gold and remittances.

[thelofian]

Daily Booster Table (TTCC DBT) for 2024-05-31, Gag Farming Friday, 🚭 World No Tobacco Day | 🦜 World Parrot Day | 🌐🎨 Web Designer Day

Back from hiatus... again. This time I'm in China.

[monstera-tea]

Tobacco hornworm buddy I found at work :>

[americangrove]

Flowering Tobacco and Forest Border

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"Good Tobacco Is Produced in Ottawa," Ottawa Journal. August 29, 1942. Page 23. ---- - Photos by Malak. With Canadian tobacco manufacturers leaning heavily on Canadian growers for 90 percent. of their supply, tobacco growing in Canada has advanced rapidly in recent years. At the Dominion Experimental Farm, Dr. N. T. Nelson, chief of the tobacco division, and his staff, work out problems faced by growers across the country. Shown above are men at the Farm "coaxing" plants along by hoeing. Below is a wagon-load of picked tobacco on its way to the "curing" barns at the Farm.

[salt-blog]

Substance abuse was definitely normalized in the past and still is in many contexts. It's only because of fairly recent social changes like anti-smoking campaigns and indoor smoking bans that "a smoker" is considered a type of person that can't blend in now (in some places!). People just got used to the smell of cigarettes—ask anyone that grew up in the 70s.

This post just makes me think of Mad Men. Like yeah It's a TV show I know, but the characters really are just smoking and drinking all day, sometimes simultaneously. To be fair it's set in a time and context where functional alcoholism is normalized, but you can see that the characters are absolutely hollowed out—physically and mentally—by their substance abuse. Invisibly to them, and it's only when someone dies or displays a "problematic" behaviour that they face consequences—like in the episode when Freddy Rumsen gets fired for pissing himself and fainting in the office.

It's really just like now. The people who can work in and around hostile environments get rewarded, and the people who burn out are discarded. I don't think that this is a fundamentally new problem, but developing and implementing the approaches to curb widespread heavy smoking and drinking (which are still very prevalent worldwide, btw!) took a very, very long time.

figuring out how to get rid of screen addiction is like trying to figure out how to stop a nicotine addiction while also having a job centered around smoking cigarettes and having half your social life be in smoke breaks

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1952 Player’s Cigarettes ad by totallymystified

[formulaswag]

the european mind cannot comprehend north carolina pulled pork nachos and an ice cold cheerwine….

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The Trap

William Beyer

"That red fox,

Back in the furthest field,

Caught in my hidden trap,

Was half mad with fear.

During the night

He must have ripped his foot

From the cold steel.

I saw him early this morning,

Dragging his hurt leg,

Bleeding a path across the gold wheat,

Whining with the pain;

His eyes like cracked marbles.

I followed as he moved,

His thin body pulled to one side

In a weird helplessness.

He hit the wire fence,

Pushing through it

Into the deep, morning corn,

And was gone."

The old man looked around the kitchen

To see if anyone was listening.

"Crazy red fox,

Will kill my chickens no longer.

Will die somewhere in hiding."

He lit the brown tobacco carefully,

Watching the blue smoke rise and disappear

In the movement of the air.

Scratching his red nose slowly,

Thinking something grave for a long moment,

He stared out of the bright window.

"He won't last long with that leg," he said.

The old man turned his head

To see if his wife was listening.

But she was deep in thought,

Her stained fingers

Pressing red berries in a pie.

He turned his white head

Toward the open window again.

"Guess I'll ride into the back field, first thing.

Some mighty big corn back there this year

Mighty big corn."

His wife looked up from her work,

Smiled almost secretly to herself,

And finished packing the ripe berries

Into the pale crust.

"Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith

[writerighthere]

Old tobacco barn in Effingham, SC.