Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century

Index

295 Page numbers in italics refer to photographs. Page numbers that appear in bold refer to maps. The letter f following a page number denotes a figure. ABC News: reports on tobacco industry, 165 Abrams, James F., 176 Adams, Ben S., 117, 133 Agricultural Adjustment Act: of 1933, 21; of 1938, 22. See also tobacco price support program agricultural diversification: challenges of, 168, 232–37; dominant rhetoric of, 215– 16, 217, 219, 220, 225, 228, 249; economic challenges, 233–35; encouragement of, 27, 28; and entrepreneurship, 236–37; and identity, 240; intangible challenges of, 234, 237–38; and marketing, 234–36; multiple meanings of, 215, 224; narratives about failure of, 226–27, 237; and public discourses, 102; and tobacco price support program, 236; as traditional, 224; and women’s roles, 239–40. See also bell peppers; Kentucky Department of Agriculture newsletter; replacing tobacco agriculture: professionalization of, 119 agritourism, 186, 216, 232; as replacement for tobacco, 220 alignment, rhetorical: of farmers and tobacco industry, 148, 153, 159, 165, 184; of Kentucky Department of Agriculture with farmers, 120, 131, 151; of tobacco industry and the state, 117, 133–35, 141, 142–44, 153, 165 allotments. See tobacco price support program alternatives to tobacco. See agricultural diversification; replacing tobacco American-blend cigarettes, 18, 22, 222 American Tobacco Company, 20, 21, 99, 147, 152 anti-tobacco movements, 25 Armstrong-Cummins, Karen, 226 auctioneers: chant of, 99, 107–8; replaced by handheld bidding machines, 170–71 auctions. See tobacco auctions Axton, W. F., 103, 255n22 bad crop years, 21, 29, 102–3; stories about, 103–5, 265n5 Baesler, Alice: on diversification, 236–37; on tobacco cutting, 68; on tobacco labor, 75; on tobacco taxes, 185–86 baled tobacco: and moisture levels, 94, 110; move from tying hands Index 296 Index baled tobacco (cont.) to, 84, 90–94, 205; and nesting, 92, 94, 98; resistance to, 91–93. See also Kentucky Department of Agriculture newsletter; large bales baling boxes, 84, 91, 94, 95, 213 Barkley, Alben, 156 Beauchamp, Emerson, 136, 138 bell peppers: as alternative to tobacco, 160; failed diversification narratives about, 226–27 Benson, Peter: on farmer pride in tobacco, 210; on Tobacco Farm Life Museum, 159; on tobacco growers, 186; on tobacco industry, 116–17, 135, 156 Berry, John, Sr., 23, 265n5 Berry, Wendell: on diversification, 228; nostalgia, 201, 214; Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy, 195–98, 214; “tobacco man” defined by, 200 Bishop, Keenan, 39, 49, 198; on baling, 91–92; on replacement of tobacco, 232; on tobacco and family ritual, 61 Black Patch Wars, 20, 121 black shank. See tobacco: diseases affecting blue mold. See tobacco: diseases affecting Bluegrass Region: as center of burley region, 6, 15, 16 Bogey, Alvin, 187 Bond, Jerry: on calendrical cycle, 52; on pride, 213–14; “thirteenmonth -crop,” 40; on tobacco as an art, 82; tobacco income, 187 Bond, Kathleen: on changed status of tobacco, 184; on pulling plants, 44 Boonesborough (KY): in KDA newsletter, 146–47 Boswell, David E., 156 Bracken County, 7, 18, 139 Brandt, Allan M.: on tobacco industry, 129, 141 Breathitt, Ned, 142–43 Brown & Williamson: and Master Settlement Agreement, 27 Burke, Kenneth, 2; definition of rhetoric, 115; on identification, 120; on terministic screens, 5, 275n95 Burley Auction Warehouse Association, 93, 164 burley market, 160, 164, 191 burley tobacco. See tobacco, burley Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, 138, 149, 164; formation of, 21; guest column in KDA newsletter, 155; pool stocks, 22, 28–29; in postbuyout era, 108, 271n10 Butler, Ben J., 136 Carrollton Burley Festival, 138, 174, 274n91 Carter, Mike, 188; on Garrard County Tobacco Cutting Contest, 69–70; on Garrard County Tobacco Festival, 174; on transition, 223 Cashman, Ray: on nostalgia, 9, 194, 204, 205, 214 cattle. See tobacco production: relationship to raising cattle Census of Agriculture (2007), 34, 220; Henry County, 195 Chandler, Toss, 158 Channing, Steven A., 15 chewing tobacco: and burley tobacco, 15, 20 chopping out (weeds), 52, 60 Index 297 cigarettes: and burley, 18, 22, 222; increased consumption of, 21, 22, 126; military consumption of, 126; shortage of, 125–6 Civil War, 20; effects of on tobacco production, 16, 18, 32; Kentucky as border state during, 15 Clark, Gregory: on epideictic speech, 268n22; on landscape, 1, 149; on public discourses, 2 Clark, Thomas D., 185 Cline, Bruce, 209 Clinton, Bill: as anti-tobacco, 26, 164; commission formed by, 26–27; visit to Kentucky, 26 commissioners of agriculture: and changed attitude toward tobacco, 163; congressional testimony of...