Grading bench
- Title
- Grading bench
- Description
- Selling tobacco originally required farmers to separate their crop into various grades before taking it to market. The benches held the separated tobacco until there was enough to tie into a "hand." Federal standards in grading eventually eliminated this step for the farmer and created the tobacco inspectors profession at the warehouse. The video includes a former tobacco worker providing personal anecdotes about the grading process. Date unknown.
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- equipment
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- Local Identifier
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum
- Subject(s)
- Benches--North Carolina
- Grading--North Carolina
- Tobacco curing--History
- Tobacco workers--North Carolina
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- Location of Original
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum
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Agriculture
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North Carolina History and Fiction Collection
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Tobacco
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