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TOBACCO. 



closing up the building should be 1 foot wide, and at 

 intervals of about 5 feet a board should be hung with 

 light strap hinges, to serve as a ventilator to admit light 

 and dry air, and to exclude damp. These ventilators or 

 doors must be closed on frosty nights, but in fair dry 

 weather should remain open. The tobacco poles, the 

 ends of which rest upon the bents, should be about 



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Fig. 11. 



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13 feet long, 2 inches thick by 6 inches wide, of some 

 light timber, such as elm or basswood, and when hung 

 with tobacco should be 8-10 inches apart. A large door 

 should be placed at either end for ingress and egress. 

 The poles, of which there should be 4 tiers, are laid from 

 bent to bent, resting the ends of the cross beams in the 

 bent, tiers 4 feet 4 inches apart." A sectional view of the 

 barn is shown in Fig. 11. 



White suggests that stables, sheds, and barn floors can 

 be arranged " so as to hang up an acre or two by setting 



