1.   Burley tobacco is thin-leaved and milder than the strains that thrive in the hot flatlands of the Carolinas and Georgia.

2.   Burley tobacco is grown mostly in Kentucky.

3.   But he is no tycoon, and neither are many of the other Kentucky growers, most of whom produce flavor- and nicotine-rich burley tobacco.

4.   Daniel Morgan leans against bales of freshly harvested rust-colored burley tobacco, draws deeply on a cigarette and exhales slowly as he collects his thoughts.

5.   In Kentucky and Tennessee, farmers of burley tobacco will harvest their fields this month and next.

6.   Philip Morris Cos., the largest U.S. tobacco company, adopted the system to be certain it got the quantity and quality of burley tobacco it wanted.

7.   The rest of the sales will be in burley tobacco.

8.   He and his twin bother, Kevin, and their father, Maurice, have raised burley tobacco in Garrard County for many years.

9.   The two companies said they will contract in the coming crop year for both flue-cured and burley tobacco, which are blended to make cigarettes.