 "Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas)")
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Tobacco farms keep plugging: Production around Weston, Mo., harks back to an earlier age.
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Byline: Christine Metz
Sep. 17--It's hard work being a tobacco farmer.
The chopping of the tobacco stalk, stacking the leaves on spear-studded sticks, loading the sticks onto a passing flatbed truck and hanging the stalks -- row upon row -- in barns to cure.
It's the last part that is the most impressive -- and dangerous -- as workers scramble up high wooden beams to hang the leaves.
Since the start of August, it's been harvest time for Midwest tobacco farmers. It's a dirty, tiring job that requires a constant stream of labor.
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