The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields

The narrative depicts life in a Kentucky tobacco-growing community, centering on a small farmer and his household as they strip, grade, and tie the crop while struggling with credit, low prices, and the mechanics of selling. Episodes move between the stripping-house and tobacco barn, domestic scenes and courtship, neighborhood rivalries, a visit to a local seeress, and the menace of night riders that unsettles the countryside. Through practical labor, bargaining, mishap and mutual aid, the work sketches the routines, economic pressures, and social customs that shape rural families tied to the tobacco harvest.