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prizing tobacco. Upon the floor of each of these ware- 

 houses may be seen daily from 15,000 to 50,000 pounds 

 of bright tobacco. Fig. 73 is from a photograph of the 

 warehouses in the section referred to, that are building 

 up the prosperous town of Greenville. In the older and 

 heavy shipping districts, the warehouse system has at- 

 tained still larger dimensions, involving great ware- 

 houses, tobacco boards of trade, banking facilities, and 

 all the appurtenances to a large commerce. Clarksville, 

 Tenn., is an example of a town being rapidly developed, 

 because it is a center for tobacco sales by the warehouse 

 method, while Danville, Va., has long had a national 

 reputation in this respect. Much of the vast commerce 

 of Cincinnati and Louisville is due to these cities being 

 great tobacco markets. 



Selling "Loose" Tobacco. In the heavy leaf dis- 

 tricts, large quantities of tobacco are sold loose, the other 

 method very generally employed being that of selling 

 the leaf in hogsheads under inspection regulated by law. 

 Heavy shipping and manufacturing tobacco, when sold 

 loose, usually changes ownership after it has been exam- 

 ined by purchaser in growers' barns, and price is usually 

 fixed according to weight, with the condition that the 

 amount of lugs must not exceed a certain agreed per- 

 centage. In other words, a fixed price is paid for the 

 good grades, and another set figure for the lugs. Ware- 

 houses for the sale of loose tobacco are now established 

 in Virginia and North Carolina, but no such provision 

 for sales is made in the Mississippi valley. The ware- 

 houses for the transfer of loose tobacco are quite differ- 

 ent in construction and arrangement from those where 

 prized tobacco is sold. 



An important requisite, in the construction of a 

 warehouse for the sale of loose tobacco, is plenty of floor 

 space, and plenty of light from above and also from all 

 sides. Attached to one side of the warehouse is a cheaply 



