Buyers compare the color of tobacco leaves to assess the grade. This tobacco brought top price at the Lexington market, ca. 1930. Photo by the Lafayette Studio, KHS Collections.
In an act approved December 13, 1820, the General Assembly provided that all tobacco must be inspected and classed in one of three classes. When the inspectors agreed that it is good, sound, merchantable and clean of trash, they shall determine according to its quality, to which of the classes it shall be assigned.
Buyers compare the color of tobacco leaves to assess the grade. This tobacco brought top price at the Lexington market, ca. 1930. Photo by the Lafayette Studio, KHS Collections.
