"Priming" leaves of shade-grown tobacco 



Courtesy Cigar Institute of America 



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oil and trouble 



Once their harvests are in, farmers knock down their 

 tents. The ceihng cloths of single thickness, now affected 

 by sun and weather, must be renewed each spring. 

 Several thicknesses of this cloth will make the side-walls 

 of next year's tents. 



Throughout a good part of each season fanners live 

 with the reality that weather and other elements of na- 

 ture can be unpredictable. If, in one season, nature is 

 cooperative, in another it may bring ruin to a tobacco 



