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was fool the sap from the stems aud midribs became uniformly dis- 

 tributed throughout the leaf, and after a few days the fires were 

 restarted, and this practice of stopping- and restarting the fire was' 

 repeated until the leaf was thoroughly cured. 



Flue-curing. 



As in fire-curing, artificial heat is also used in this niethcid. 

 Instead of open fires, however, the artificial heat is distributed in the 

 barn by means of flues or large pipes which also carry off' all the fuel 

 gases, so that the smoke cannot come in contact with the tobacco. 

 Log or wood fires are built in one or two fairly large furnaces, built 

 in the wall of the barn, and extending both to the outside and inside 

 of the barn. The heat generated passes through the system of flues 

 placed in the barn. 



I'hofii hti P. Kor/i. 



Mill -curing Turkish 'I'obiicoo. 



This type of tobacco is produced on a large scale in the eastern 

 districts of South Carolina, in the northern and eastern districts of 

 North Carolina, and in Southern Virginia. This method of curing 

 has recently been introduced into Georgia, where it has met with great 

 success. In South Africa practically all the flue-cured tobacco is 

 produced in Ilhodesia. In the Union the tobacco farmers have not 

 yet taken to this system of curing their leaf, althougli from results 

 obtained at the Rustenburg Tobacco aud Cotton Experiment Sta- 

 tion as far back as 1911, it was clearly shown that it can be done 

 successfully in that district. Below is given the results of three barns 

 cured during the present season. The tobacco was grown on norite 

 turf, and the total acreage from which the tobacco was picked con- 

 sisted of just under one acre of Joiner and one acre of Sterling. 



