Interview with Edward Thomas Saunders, September 19, 1983
Project: Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Farmer/student, personal background, maintaining tradition of the family farm, fertilizers, soil tests, tobacco varieties, decision to go into farming, diversified farming, importance of tobacco, farm debt, chemicals used in tobacco farming, remodeling tobacco barns, baling tobacco, warehouses, relationships among tobacco farmers, mechanization, bluemold, future of the small farmer, alternate employmentInterview Accession
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Agricultural education Agricultural machinery Agriculture--Kentucky Baling Barns--Tobacco Burley tobacco Family farms Family farms--Finance Family farms--Management Farm life. Part-time farming Tobacco blue mold Tobacco farmers Tobacco industry Tobacco industry--Equipment and supplies Tobacco--Kentucky University of Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.) Warehouses Agriculture Agricultural chemicalsInterview Rights
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Saunders, Edward Thomas Interview by John Klee. 19 Sep. 1983. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Saunders, E.T. (1983, September 19). 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.
Saunders, Edward Thomas, interview by John Klee. September 19, 1983, Family Farms of Kentucky: Burley Tobacco Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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