[AT] OT Swedish tobacco farming

Mattias Kessén davidbrown950 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 23:16:10 PDT 2017


The clip wasn't really that informative, it mostly talked about that it was
possible to grow tobacco in Sweden. I would believe it's used for snus that
is the most common tobaccoproduct here.

Mattias

www.rodjagard.n.nu

2017-09-30 13:37 GMT+02:00 John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com>:

> The "stringer" you mentioned was referred to as a "looper" here. The IH
> dealer dad worked for was a dealer for Hawk tobacco loopers (made in
> Canada if I recall). Even today at 87 yrs old, daddy still carries the 2
> or 3 short arm series allen wrenches in his pocket required to work on
> those machines. Somehow he was the one chosen to learn how to work on
> those machines. So when summer and fall came he left the parts counter
> and headed out on service calls a few times a week.
>
> John Hall
>
>
>
> On 9/29/2017 11:42 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> > I showed this to a friend who grew up on a tobacco farm.   He is a few
> years older than me so his recollections have no bearing on the modern
> reality of US tobacco production but he basically said:  " this is nothing
> I grew up on".  But he also said some of the things the others on the list
> said:
> >
> > Is this burley?  But even burley they don't pull up the whole plant .
> They used to "tent" the leaves on  stalks in the ground here.
> > Is flue cured?
> > Is is hybrid?
> > He was mortified by the suckers and the lack of topping.
> > Said his grandfather was rolling in his grave (-;
> >
> > But he absolutely loved seeing it and talked for 20 minutes on memories
> he never mentioned even though I have known him for 15 years.  Thanks so
> much for sharing.
> >
> > PS: I moved to the state of Georgia, which raises quite a bit of tobacco
> too, in the 7th grade.  One of the first friends I made in seventh grade
> that very first September nearly lost a finger to a stringer(that's what we
> call the thing that "knits" the leaves so you can hang them.).  By the way,
> that friend was a Hispanic girl we called "Tony"(not sure we ever knew her
> formal name) and she was from a migrant labor family.  Never saw her again
> after that fall but have wondered to this day if that finger ever healed up
> alright.   Looked bad as I remember.
> >
> > Spencer Yost
> >
> >> On Sep 29, 2017, at 2:49 PM, Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> They had removed flower stalks so i assumed the ones they harvested were
> >> new. The clip said nothing about drying outdoors or indoors or both.
> >>
> >> Med vänlig hälsning
> >>
> >> Mattias Kessén
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my not so smart phone.
> >>
> >> Den 29 sep. 2017 20:11 skrev "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com
> >:
> >>
> >>> Mattias,  I didn't need the translation.  I feel like I have a PhD in
> >>> tobacco.  LOL.  What your video clip shows is similar to the way
> >>> "Burley" tobacco is handled.  Actually it's kind of a hybrid between
> >>> burley which is air dried on the stalk and flue cured which used to
> >>> be "tied" bundles of leaves.  Now days here it's all mechanical
> >>> and highly automated.  I looked for some youtube videos of recent
> >>> harvest of flue cured tobacco but didn't find anything I thought
> >>> would adequately tell the story.
> >>>
> >>> In my days on the tobacco farm we pulled (picked or cropped) the leaves
> >>> (different terminology for the same method depending on what area you
> lived
> >>> in)
> >>> two or three leaves at the time starting at the bottom of the stalk and
> >>> working up.
> >>> most plants had somewhere between 18 and 21 leaves or so and the
> process
> >>> took
> >>> about 6 weeks. The plants were as much as 6' tall and the leaves vastly
> >>> larger than
> >>> anything in the video you shared.
> >>>
> >>> Charlie
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Mattias Kessén
> >>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 1:50 AM
> >>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> >>> Subject: [AT] OT Swedish tobacco farming
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I thought I should share this clip since some of you are so interested
> in
> >>> tobacco farming. The language might be a bit challenging for some of
> you.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.atl.nu/lantbruk/har-skordas-svensk-tobak/
> >>> Mattias
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