While I understand the term in Kentucky is cutting tobacco, because I think with burley tobacco the entire stalk is cut - in North Carolina tobacco (flue-cured, not burley) is "picked" or "cropped" a few leaves each week over a four to five week season in the summer as the leaves partially "cure" on the stalk - in the old days the picked or cropped leaves were tied to sticks and hung in barns on "tier" poles because they were at different levels in the barn - those of us who had to climb to the top of the barn to hang the sticks of tobacoon referred to them as "tear" poles because it would be so hot at the top of the barn our eyes would run water -
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