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Re: "sucker hunting"
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"Levy, Suzanne S." <[log in to unmask]>
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When I lived in NC people talked about suckering tobacco. I thought they
did it like they do with tomato plants to keep the branches down. Will
have to ask my contact there whose father had a tobacco allotment...

-----Original Message-----
From: Grundset, Eric [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:46 AM
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Subject: Re: "sucker hunting"


I forget the exact details, but suckers are a shoot which grows out of
part of a plant, in this case a tobacco plant. Because tobacco
production was a regulated industry in terms of how many plants one
could grow, there were sucker hunters whose job it was to get rid of
those new shoots because they could be turned into new plants with
rooting. That may be a little off, but I think it's basically right. And
Donaught was requesting his payment in tobacco for his work because that
was the form of currency for that sort of work authorized by a county
court.

Eric G. Grundset
Library Director
DAR Library
1776 D St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-5303
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Watkinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:12 AM
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Subject: "sucker hunting"


Just ran across the following from Orange Co, VA, 1751:  "The Pet[ition]
of William Donaught Humbly Begs that your Worships will allow me my
Tobacco for Sucker Hunting Last year according to the list I sent your
worships . . ."  "Sucker hunting"???

 

Any clues from the learned listers?

 

Please pardon the cross-post.

 

Cheers.

 

Jim Watkinson

 

James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.

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