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(Russ Ouellette) ... Burley is also used in more different forms than any of the other types of obacco. You’ll regularly find it cut into shag, fine and wide ribbons, flake-cut, crimp cut, pressed into plugs, cakes and flakes, along with an old favorite, cube cut.
Just about every form of chew (loose, plug, moist snuff (dip)) contains some form of Burley. In this particular usage, the ability of the leaf to take on flavorings is even more apparent. Continued
Photo: Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky, 1940. (Marion Post Wolcott/FSA/Library of Congress)
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