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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 is 
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. Secondsand Fillers will not contain as many pounds to 
the cord as wrappers. After the tobacco is packed, cover 
first with boards—planed onesare 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 
