102 THE CULTURE OF TOBACCO. 



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leaf system is used, the tiers are but two feet apart vertically. Wh' 

 tlie barn has foui-foot tiers, it may l)e changed to suit occasions )jy the 

 stretching of heavy wire, so as to altei-nate with the original tiei.-s. 

 The bar-n has several double doors in the side, and has a series of 

 windows or openings along both sides, that close with shutters hung 

 from the top with hinges. These are for- the purpose cjf ventilatiori. 

 Along both sides at the fiase and the top there is am.ithei- series of 

 ventilators. They are long and narrow, and are closed with dooi > 

 <:-omposed of one board, hinged at the upper side. 



This barn is constructed errtirely of timber-, and rests on lirick 

 pillars. For its constructicm there is required twenty-orre thousaird 

 feet of tirrrber-, and thirty thousand shingles, alsf> two thousand bricks, 

 two ban-els of liirre, severr kegs of rraiis, and a quantity of hinge.i, 

 staples, and wire. The total ccwt in Florida when er-ected and before 

 it is painted is about orre hundred arrd twentj' pourrds. 



Several modifications of this barn ar-e in use. In one, the doors 

 -ar-e at the end of the burldirrg, and the centr-al tier- poles airanged s.. 

 that they nray be removed, and the wagon driven into the liarri. As 

 the bar-n fills up, the tier poles are replaced and filled. The ventilat( ^r s 

 on both sides are vertical, and are long arrd nar-row, beiirg but eighteen 

 inches wide, and the height of the side of the barn. They are hinged 

 at the top and opened at the bottonr. The vertical ventilat(.)r-s have 

 one fault, aird that is when open they will allow the entrarrce of :t 

 drifting rain. Where the nature of the constr-uctioir will allow it, 

 horizontal ventilators should lie constructed. They should l:ie but a 

 foot wide, arrd nray be as lorrg as the board out of which they are nrade. 

 They should extend in rows along Iroth sides of the Ijarir, and these 

 rows placed orre above another- irr every three or four- feet of the side lA 

 the fiar-n. It is also rrecessary to have several ventilator-s in the gable 

 ends of the l)uilding, to pr-ovide for- the verrtilatiou of the peak of the 

 barrr. The ventilator-s should be hinged from the top, and so consti m-t- 

 ed that they may be held open at any point of elevation. They should 

 also be adju.sted .so that they may be opened or closed liy means of 

 levers worked fr-om the gi-ound. One ninety-si.x toot l)ar'n will hold 

 all the tobacco fr-om two oi- everr three acres (if cigar- leaf, or- twice that 

 acreage of other- tobaccos. Where the cirtting season extends over- a 

 per-iod of two moirths or irror-e, the same l>ar-n can lie used for- two 

 dirt'er-ent curings. 



A Pennsylvania Barn.— This liai-u is a \ery elaborate one. It 

 is forty-one feet wide and eighty-tour- feet long ; twenty-rrine feet fr-om 

 the wooden floor- to the jjlate, and aljout eighteen feet from the plate 

 to the r-idge pole. The room holds severr tiers of tobacco in the bo(h 

 and thr-ee tiers in the peak. The building is ventilated by hor-izont:il 

 openings four feet apar-t, and so arranged as to be orr a. Ie^•el with ea<-li 

 tier of tobacco. These ventilators are a foot wide and are ai i anued in 

 vertical series of twelve feet in width, so that each series mav lie 

 corrtrolled with oire lever-. Half way up the roof there is a shcltert-d 

 slatted ventilator-, arrd at the i-idge thei-e ar(- a number of ventilated 

 cupolas. 



Urrder the entire bai-n is a basement or cellar, vliich is nine feet 

 clear irr height. This basement is divided into two r-oonrs, the largei 

 one of which is irsed for- dampening a.ird <-onditioniiig the tobacco, 

 which is lowered into it thr-ough ti-a|j-dooi-s in the tloor. In this r-ooni 

 the tobacco is also bulked. The smaller i-ooin is useil for tlic str-ipiiiiiL; 



