ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



Page. 



Plate I. Fig. 1. — Seed bed, with part of the cauvas cover removed, as the 

 plauts are ready to be reset. Fig. 2. — Part of a 10-acre tobacco 

 field with plants just set. The whole is covered with cheese cloth 

 fastened to wires rnnning across a wooden frame, the frame being 



9 feet high 8 



II. Fig. 1. — Part of a 10-acre tobacco field covered with cheese cloth, 

 showing the details of the ontside structure cf the frame. Fig. 2. — 

 The outside of a 10-acre tobacco field covered with cheese cloth. 

 (From an elevation some distance away.) 10 



III. Fig, 1. — Sumatra tobacco under cheese cloth on June 25, just after 



the plants had been topped. Fig. 2, — Sumatra tobacco under 

 cheese cloth, with plants maturing and laborer priming off the ripe 

 leaves. The leaves average from 16 to 18 inches in length 12 



IV. Fig. 1. — Sumatra tobacco left to mature for seed. This also illus- 



trates the development in the modern method of securing fine 

 wrappers when not grown under canvas and where a fine, thin 

 Sumatra wrapper is desired. Fig. 2. — The method of stringing the 



leaves and hanging in the shed 14 



V. Fig. 1. — Exterior view of a curing and packing house. The fermen- 

 tation is done in the basement and the sorting and packing on the 

 first fioor. Fig. 2. — Assorting and classifying tobacco on the first 



floor of the packing house 18 



VI. Fig. 1. — Putting up the Cuban tobacco into carrots. Fig. 2. — Samples 



of 12, 11, and 16 inch carrots ready to be baled 20 



VII. Fig. 1, — Making up a bale of Cuban tobacco. Fig. 2. — The Cuban 



bale with and without the canvas cover 22 



VIII. Fig. 1. — The Sampson jack-press, used for making the Sumatra bale. 



Fig. 2. — A finish<-d Sumatra bale of Florida-grown tobacco 24 



TEXT FIGURES. 



Fig. 1. The Cuban press or baling frame, with the sticks and mallet used in 



the process 17 



2. Shed filled with primed leaves, with the ventilators open 25 



3. Ground plan of tobacco barn 27 



4. Side elevation of tobacco barn 27 



5. End elevation of tobacco barn 28 



6. Middle section of tobacco barn 29 



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