Interview with Bennett R. Alexander, February 6, 1988

Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Retired farmer, Henderson County, personal history, use of mules and early farm tools, saving and trading seed in the 1930s, burning tobacco beds in the fall, planting tobacco by hand, tobacco pools, warehouses, crop setting and cutting seasons, use of Paris Green and arsenic of lead, qualities of Green River tobacco, difference in barns built for dark tobacco, curing and stripping processes, his tenure as president of Stemming District, acreage system and how it works in dark tobacco, Henderson's decline as a tobacco market in 1970s, differences in dark vs. burley tobacco, decline in small tobacco farms, tobacco price support system

Interview Accession

1995oh159_ff489

Interviewee Name

Bennett R. Alexander

Interviewer Name

John Klee

Interview Date

1988-02-06

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agriculture--Kentucky Burley tobacco Draft animals Family farms ITC Limited Lead arsenate Paris green R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Stemming District Tobacco Association Tobacco curing Tobacco industry Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Varieties Traditional farming Warehouses Weather Agriculture

Interview Rights

All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, are held by the Kentucky Historical Society.

Interview Usage

Interviews may be reproduced with permission from the Kentucky Historical Society.

Restriction

No Restrictions

Interviews may be reproduced with permission from the Kentucky Historical Society.

All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, are held by the Kentucky Historical Society.

Add this interview to your cart in order to begin the process of requesting access to a copy of and/or permission to reproduce interview(s).

MLA: APA: Chicago:

Alexander, Bennett R. Interview by John Klee. 06 Feb. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Alexander, B.R. (1988, February 06). Interview by J. Klee. Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Alexander, Bennett R., interview by John Klee. February 06, 1988, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

You may come across language in UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center collections and online resources that you find harmful or offensive. SCRC collects materials from different cultures and time periods to preserve and make available the historical record. These materials document the time period when they were created and the view of their creator. As a result, some may demonstrate racist and offensive views that do not reflect the values of UK Libraries.

If you find description with problematic language that you think SCRC should review, please contact us at SCRC@uky.edu.

Persistent Link for this Record: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt705q4rmw4h