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tobacco should ripen witbiii one mouth the space would be altogether 

 insufficient, but on such a farm harvesting should begin the middle of 

 June and continue until the 1st of Se])tember, so each barn would be 



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Fig. 3.— Ground plan of tobacco barn. 



filled two or three times. In this way the barns would be quite suffi- 

 cient. 



TOBACCO GROWN BY THE FARMER COMPARED WITH THAT GROWN 

 BY THE TOBACCO PLANTER. 



If a farmer of a small tobacco farm is asked what it costs to raise 

 tobacco in Florida, he will say from 10 to 12 cents per pound, according 

 to the season. The explanation of this is, the farmer lays out his farm 

 not for the sole purpose of growing tobacco, but for producing everything 

 needful for the support of himself and family. Such a farmer may have 

 in cultivation 100 acres, only 8 or 10 of which are in tobacco. His atten- 

 tion is given to producing corn, potatoes, peas, rice, and peanuts, and 





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Fig. 4.— Side elevation of tobacco barn. 



to the raising of hogs and cows — in fact, all things necessary for the 

 sustenance of his family. As a money crop, he plants 10 acres in 

 tobacco, against which he makes no charge for his own services or for 



