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Figure 17 shows tlie view of this modern barn, which is in 

 operation on this Station. 



Figure 17. 



It is not necessary at present to give details for the con- 

 struction of this barn and apparatus. This system of curing 

 tobacco in the Snow Modern Barn has important advantages. 

 The leaves are stripped from the stalks in the field and 

 brought to the barn in baskets, and strung about the width 

 of a finger apart on pointed wires which project at right 

 angles from a wooden stick. As the sticks are filled they 

 are placed in movable racks in the barn, and as fast as a rack 

 is filled it is raised by a simple device to the top of the 

 building. This is continued until the barn is filled, leaving 

 only as much space between racks as is required for the 

 hanging leaves. 



