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barns and are erecting frame barns, like that in Fig. 35, 

 with such conveniences and appliances as will enable 

 them to regulate the curing. In damp weather, it is 

 the practice to give all the ventilation possible by open- 

 ing all the doors and windows ; in dry weather, close the 

 barn during the day, and open at night. Too much 

 wet weather or too much dry weather is equally hurtful 

 in curing tobacco. It is very necessary that the ventila- 



FIG. 46. ONONDAGA TOBACCO BARN. 



tiori of the building should be under perfect control 

 while the process of curing is going on. 



The tobacco barns in common use for curing yellow 

 tobacco by means of flues are very inexpensive and sim- 

 ple in construction. They are usually built of logs or 

 poles cut from the woods. Sometimes these logs are 

 hewn, but oftener they are put up with the bark on 

 them. It requires about 68 logs, or 17 on a side, to 

 build a barn with four firing tiers in the body. The 

 logs are large enough so that one of them, including the 



