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a barn five tiers high, with six rooms. Fig. 38 contains 

 five rooms five tiers high. 



The most approved barn in size is one with four 

 firing tiers in hight, and the same in width. In the 

 "rooms" next to the walls, tier poles are put which lie 

 against the walls. This is preferable to nailing a strip 

 on the walls to support the ends of the sticks holding 

 the tobacco plants. 



The barns are not always square. It is necessary 

 that one of the inside dimensions, or rather the width 

 of the barn on the inside, should be some multiplier of 

 four in feet, so as to accommodate the width of the 

 rooms to the length of the sticks, but the length of the 

 tier poles need not be so restricted. Some barns are 

 therefore constructed 16, 20 or 24 feet in width in the 



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FIG. 48. HANGER FOB LEAVES IN SNOW BARN. 



interior, but they may be of any reasonable length in 

 the direction in which the tier poles run. Many plant- 

 ers prefer barns five tiers wide and five high and of equal 

 width and length, with the door on the side and the 

 furnaces and smoke escape pipe on the end. 



Barns built of round logs are chinked and daubed 

 with mud. If the logs are hewn, after the cracks are 

 chinked they are usually pointed with a mortar made of 

 lime and sand. This latter manner of closing the spaces 

 between the logs, while much neater in appearance, is 

 not so effective in making the structures tight as when 

 the cracks are closed with mud. 



A square barn containing four firing tiers and four 

 rooms in the body, will hold 500 sticks of tobacco, or 

 3000 plants. One with five firing tiers and five rooms 

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