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Title: Principles and practical methods of curing tobacco
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Garner, W. W. (Wightman Wells)
Subjects: Tobacco curing
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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strung on cords hang with their surfaces atright angles to this axis. Each of these methods of stringing theleaves possesses points of advantage, and it is difficult to determinejust which is the better one. The work of stringing the leaf isusually done by girls or boys, some of Avhom develop remarkabledexterity. The laths carrying the leaves are hung on the tier poles 143 38 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF CURING TOBACCO. at intervals of 4 to G inches, dependina on the size of leaf. Themethod of arranging- the laths on the poles in the barn is shown infigure G. MANAGEMENT OF THE CURING BARN. The changes in composition of the leaf are doubtless of the samecharacter as those which take place in curing tobacco on the stalk,but less complete than in the latter case. The two important differ-ences in the two cases are that the picked leaves cure much more rap-idly than those left on the stalk, and the conditions in the barn as tohumidity and temperature are more easily controlled. Both of these
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Pig. (5.—The interior of a cigar-tobacco barn, showing the arrangement of tier poles andthe method of hanging picked leaves. facts are due to the circumstance that the stalks, which contain somuch water and give up this water so slowly, are not placed in thebarn Avhen the leaves are harvested by picking. During the first stages of the curing due care must be taken toprevent the tobacco from drying out too rapidly. If the weather bevery dry, the ventilators should be kept open for only a few hoursin the morning. The picked leaves are whipped about by the windmore readily than those cured on the stalk, and hence the venti-lators must be closely watched in windy weather to prevent injury tothe tobacco from this source. As soon as the brown color develops, 143 BURLEY TOBACCO. 39 the leaf may be allowed to dry out rather rapidly. The leaf propercures down in a short while, but a much longer time is required forcompletely drjdng out the stems. The picked leaves are subject topole-sweat at

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