34:8 TOBACCO LEAF. 



The flyings and sand leaves are used mainly for 

 making smokers ; the trash and lugs in a tine crop are 

 used for cutters ; the bright leaf is used for wrappers, 

 or fine cutters ; the red leaf for plug fillers, and the 

 tips for making a low grade of plug for exportation. 



All grades are tied in bundles of from 10 to 20 

 leaves, the smaller number of leaves to the bundle being 

 used in the better grades. A tie an inch in diameter is 

 a better standard and one preferred by the dealers. 



Packing for Market. When White Burley has been 

 assorted and stripped in the fall, each grade is put in a 

 separate bulk. This is prized (pressed into bogheads) 

 at once and is known as the "winter prizing." 



For "summer prizing" the tobacco is allowed to 

 remain in bulk until the heated season approaches. It 

 is then hung up in the barn (Fig. 102) for the June 

 sweat, and reordered, so that the stems will crack when 

 bent to the tips of the leaves. Some planters, instead 

 of bulking the tobacco down after stripping, put the 

 bundles on sticks and shingle it on a plank floor until 

 May, and then hang it up in the barn to be properly 

 sweated and ordered. When prized in casks weighing 

 1100 pounds for the fine grades, and 1200 to 1400 

 pounds for the inferior grades in good keeping con- 

 dition after the sweat, it will remain sweet for years. 



The largest portion of the crop goes to Louisville, 

 Cincinnati and Richmond, Virginia, and is prized in 

 hogsheads 48 inches in diameter and 60 inches high, 

 made generally of poplar staves five-eighths of an inch 

 thick. It should always be remembered by the grower 

 of tobacco, and especially of the White Burley tobacco, 

 that a good crop badly handled will sell no better than 

 a bad crop well handled. In packing the tobacco in a 

 hogshead, the heads of the bundles are drawn closely 

 together, but the tails are allowed to spread out like a 

 fan. This is different from the packing of heavy-ship- 



