Sharp, Cynthia Tobacco setting Workers on the Bonnie Rouse farm in the St. Johns Community near Grifton set out some of the first tobacco in Pitt County. Billy McLawhorn, who tends the land said he had about 36 acres of tobacco this year. McLawhorn said his soil was not as wet as some due to the sandy conditions in the area. Even under cloudy skies and some rain, the farmer said he expected to get about five acres set before the end of the day. 741.45.f 15121 779 19830408 eng text photographs United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Grifton (N.C.) Tobacco farmers North Carolina Grifton Tobacco Transplanting Machinery North Carolina Grifton Forrest, J. Thomas creator Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ The Daily Reflector Image Collection reflector Agriculture agriculture Tobacco tobacco 0741 Tobacco setting Workers on the Bonnie Rouse farm in the St. Johns Community near Grifton set out some of the first tobacco in Pitt County. Billy McLawhorn, who tends the land said he had about 36 acres of tobacco this year. McLawhorn said his soil was not as wet as some due to the sandy conditions in the area. Even under cloudy skies and some rain, the farmer said he expected to get about five acres set before the end of the day. Forrest, J. Thomas 19830408 Text photographs J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 15121 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Grifton (N.C.) Tobacco farmers--North Carolina--Grifton Tobacco--Transplanting--Machinery--North Carolina--Grifton local, filename 15121.0001 19563888 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 cb60f989fa772f741ae68239d2c8e480 ecu:digital_collections 2924 2227 RGB mm mm 20130909 Epson Perfection 4490 object plane in. 300 1 300 1 8 integer 3 internal