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eure 800 sticks of common size tobacco, which will weigh 
about 1200 lbs. The proper construction of flues is of great 
importance ; they should be built of any stone that will stand 
fire 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 berun just far 
enough from the house-side not to set the house on fire, 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 
fiue 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 thetobacco. In South America many of the sheds are large 
and low, built on the plantation, and close to the tobacco’ 
