I was born in Adams, Tennessee, in Robertson County, which is the heart of the tobacco growing country, both air-cured and dark-fired. There are large tobacco markets located at Springfield and Clarksville, Tennessee, and at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, all within a radius of 30 miles.
Tobacco plant beds were either burned or steamed. When one was to be burned, the ground was cleared off. Brush and small logs were then cut and piled up several feet high and burned to kill the weed seeds and insects.
There was also a device called a . It had a set of wheels on one end and handles on the other. It was about 8 feet long and 3 feet wide, and consisted of a pan-like piece of metal with an opening on the end, where the wheels were located, for
