Nalu
Loc: Southern Arizona
These are very nice. Not often you get Kingfishers to cooperate but she definitely felt the love here. Looks like a fin morning. Thanks for sharing.
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Tobacco stick? Likely meaning a bail of tobacco leaves. How did a wooden post get to be called the former.
Your usual excellent set, Marshall!
lamiaceae wrote:
Tobacco stick? Likely meaning a bail of tobacco leaves. How did a wooden post get to be called the former.
lamiaceae, thanks for your interest.
Here in Kentucky and in other southern tobacco producing states, producing the crop was a very labor intensive process. Baling tobacco leaves was a later technique to reduce the time and cost of harvesting.
The old-time method was for men, "cutters", to walk through the tobacco rows, cutting stalks as they go and spearing each stalk onto a strong "tobacco stick" made of a hand-riven hardwood stick about 4 feet long. When this stick was full it was left standing in the field and the cutter moved on to a new stick.
Later all of the sticks were picked up, put on a wagon, and taken to a barn, to cure. There they were passed up hand to hand to men standing on joists in the barn, starting at the very top of the barn and working their way down. The leaves on the stalk hung from these sticks and cured in the barn. Then the process was reversed and the tobacco was taken back down and to market. Brutal and dangerous work.
I spent one day helping a neighbor load his crop on his wagon, and that was enough for a lifetime, for me...
Marshall
Two great images. I just can't get Kingfishers to pose for me.
kpmac wrote:
Two great images. I just can't get Kingfishers to pose for me.
Nalu and kpmac, keep trying! They are a very skittish bird and I've had the best luck when they were intent on their next meal and weren't worried about being one. lol!
Marshall
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Beautiful detailed captures
Fran
lamiaceae wrote:
Tobacco stick? Likely meaning a bail of tobacco leaves. How did a wooden post get to be called the former.
My description of a "tobacco stick" in a previous reply is correct, but this video really shows the method, the "spear" placed on the end of the stick, and the cutting knife are shown, too. A picture is worth a thousand words and a video might be worth a thousand pictures.
They had one of these competitions every year here in Scott County and I'd drive by the site on my way to work at the Toyota Plant. The same guy would win it nearly every year; might be the same guy as in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHGZrI6ODUMarshall
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