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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
My grandfather had a tobacco base that he leased out. He acquired it back in the 1930s. He never grew tobacco that I know of, but he made some good money off of it over the years. Most of the farms that grew tobacco in Ohio were an acre or so in size.
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I think they used to call them "allotments" around here. You were only allowed to grow a certain amount of tobacco (your "allotment") but it was pretty lucrative so even here in East TN (which is mountainous and not great for farming) you would see little patches of land with tobacco growing on it.
I haven't seen a tobacco plant in probably 20 years.