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cure 800 sticks of common size tobacco, which will weigh 

 about 1200 Ibs. The proper construction of flues is of great 

 importance ; they should be built of any stone that will stand 

 tire without bursting. White sand-stone, bastard soap-stone, 

 or any other that does not contain flint. The size of a flue 

 for a sixteen foot barn, is generally about 12 inches wide by 

 14 inches high inside. Not much care need be taken to have 

 them smooth on the outside. If stone can be had to make 

 the inside smooth so as not to obstruct the putting on of 

 wood, it is all that is necessary. They should be run just far 

 enough from the house-side not to set the house on tire, and 

 there is not as much danger of this as may be supposed. 

 Run the walls of the house-side all around, running the stem 

 out at the middle of the upper side. The stem should be run 

 far enough above the wall of the house to avoid danger of 

 sparks from the chimney. The height of the inside of the 

 flue should be preserved its whole length. The width may 

 be slightly decreased from the elbow to the chimney. The 

 inner wall is carried all around. But too much explanation 

 bewilders ; we think we have said enough. As before said, 

 we like small barns ; where too much tobacco is together, it 

 all can not receive the heat alike, which is our main objection 

 to large barns. As to the number of barns necessary, we 

 would say that there ought to be enough to receive all the 

 crop without moving any. Say one sixteen-foot barn to every 

 8,000 hills of tobacco planted. As a general rule, plant one 

 thousand hills for every hundred sticks house-room. That is, 

 if you have three barns plant 24,000 hills, and if it is common 

 tobacco, they will receive it. A much larger quantity may 

 be saved in this number of barns by curing and moving out, 

 but it is very troublesome." 



In Kentucky and Tennessee the tobacco barns resemble 

 those of Ohio and the other Western states, and are large, 

 commodious structures, provided with every facility for 

 curing the plants. In other tobacco-growing countries the 

 tobacco barns and sheds differ but little from those in Amer- 

 ica, the only difference being in form and building material. 

 In countries where tobacco is a government monopoly, large 

 and comfortable buildings are provided for the crop with all 

 the necessary accessories for the curing, packing, and storing 

 of the tobacco. In South America many of the sheds are large 

 and low, built on the plantation, and close to the tobacco 



