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from overflows or standing water, are to be preferred. 

 High situations dry out tobacco too rapidly, and it is 

 much more difficult in such places to have the cured 

 product come into uniform condition for handling. 

 Land sloping to the east is thought to be a good situa- 

 tion for a barn, if furnaces are to be used for curing the 



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FIG. 44. ELEVATION SNOW BARN. 



tobacco. The reason for such a selection is that the 

 western winds are most prevalent during the curing sea- 

 son, and the smoke issuing from the chimneys or flues 

 should be blown away from the barn. 



In the White Burley district all the tobacco is air 

 cured, and the tobacco houses are, or should be, so con- 

 structed that the air may be freely admitted or excluded, 



