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heat. Nothing succeeds like success, and if you know how 

 to dry tobacco well, yuu will be successful. Be careful not 

 to scorch it. 



No general flue -curing system is yet adopted for other 

 than the Bright tobacco. The two things to see about are 

 that fires are maintained in stoves or furnaces outside of the 

 curing room proper, and that the heat is properly conducted 

 through the lower part of the barn by return flues or smoke 

 pipes. The heat naturally rising to the upper portion of the 

 barn, affects all portions alike. Open fires only are employed 

 in the heavy shipping districts. The creosotic compounds 

 deposited on the leaves by smoke impart a flavor which is 

 highly regarded by European consumers. 



MARKETING. 



The sweating, fermenting or finishing of the leaf is a 

 manufacturing process, and does not naturally belong to 

 the province of the grower, whose crop must be marketed 

 in a barn-cured condition. In most tobacco districts, except 

 those particularly devoted to cigar leaf, the warehouse sys- 

 tem of marketing, which is practically the same as that 

 practiced with the cotton crop, is in vogue. Cigar tobaccos 

 are packed in boxes, yellow tobacco in tierces, heavy tobac- 

 cos in hogsheads. 



Cigar tobacco is generally sold either green in the field 

 or while still hanging in the curing barn. But such practice 

 opens the way to serious misunderstandings between buyef 



