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TOBACCO LEAF. 



as the necessity of the case may demand. Many of the 

 barns of that region, however, are built of logs, but are 

 not chinked or daubed. They are poorly fitted for cur- 



FIO. 45. INTERIOR OF SNOW BARN. 



ing fine tobacco, as it is exposed very much to beating 

 rains or drifting snows, and to the damaging effects of 

 winds. The best Burley planters are discarding such 



