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all is packed. If possible pack all together, that is, each kind 

 by itself, as it is better to have the wrappers or fillers all 

 together rather than in several places, as the moisture ia 

 retained better than when it is packed in small piles or heaps. 

 Use in packing a plank or board, placing it against the 

 front of the tier and bring the ends of the hands up against it. 

 This will make the tobacco look much better and also render 

 the process of packing firmer. 



The tobacco may be packed any height or length desired, 

 according to the quantity, but usually from three to four feet 

 high will be found to be convenient while the length may 

 be proportioned to the height or not. Tobacco may be 

 packed by the cord or half cord so as to be able to judge 

 of the quantity good large wrappers averaging a ton to the 

 cord. Seconds and Fillers will not contain as many pounds to 

 the cord as wrappers. After the tobacco is packed, cover 

 first with boards planed ones are preferable, or even shing- 

 les and press firmly, especially if the tobacco is dry, then cover 

 with blankets or any kind of covering, adding plank or pieces 

 of timber if additional pressure is needed. It can now 

 remain packed until sold or cased, and will hardly need 

 to be examined unless packed while very damp or kept 

 packed until warm weather. 



Wailes says of planting by the early planters of tobacco in 

 Mississippi : 



" The larger planters packed it in the usual way in hogs- 

 heads. Much of it, however, was put up in carrets, as they 

 were called, resembling in size and form two small sugar- 

 loafs united at the larger ends. The stemmed tobacco was 

 laid smoothly together in that form coated with wrappers of 

 the extended leaf, enveloped in a cloth, and then firmly 

 compressed by a cord wrapped around the parcel, and which 

 was suffered to remain until the carret acquired the necessary 

 dryness and solidity, when together with the surrounding 

 cloth, it was removed, and strips of lime-bark were bound 

 around it at proper distances, in such a manner as to secure 

 it from unwrapping and losing its proportions." 



In Turkey, after the tobacco is made into bundles or hands, 

 it is piled against the walls inside the dwelling rooms and a 



