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CURED OX STALKS. 



Weight of ioo plants before curing 222 ibs. 13 oz. 



Weight of leaves and stalks after curing 37 lbs. 10 oz. 



Shrinkage in curing 1 85 lbs. 3 oz. 



Weight of stalks after curing 15 lbs. 5 oz. 



Weight of leaves after curing 22 lbs. 5 oz. 



Thus you will notice a difference of. 3 pounds 2 ounces in favor of lot No. 

 i, cured on our patent hangers. In reply, you will naturally say that this lot 

 weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces more than Xo. 2 before curing, which is very true ; 

 but we find, by dividing the weight of the green plants (231 pounds 3 ounces) 

 by the number of pounds of cured leaves (25 pounds 7 ounces) that it re- 

 quired 9 pounds 1J2 ounces of green plants to produce one pound of cured 

 leaves; and shows that the difference in the two lots of green tobacco (S 

 pounds 6 ounces) was not sufficient to produce a pound of cured leave.-: 

 though, allowing it had been, there is yet a difference of 2 pounds 2 ounces in 

 our favor, or a gain of more than eight per cent, in weight over the old method 

 of curing. 



Any farmer can easily make a similar test and satisfy himself as to the truth 

 of this statement. In making an experiment of this kind, if you cure In- 

 artificial heat, and both lots in one barn at the same time, do not forget to re- 

 move that on the hangers after it is cured, instead of allowing it to remain 

 while the stalks of the other lot are curing. 



