TOBACCO-HANGER 



[Patented April 6, 1S75.] 



By Samuel C. Shelton. 



This device is especially adapted to curing the leaves by gathering from the 

 stalk, when fully ripe, and stringing them on the wire-attachment, thereby 

 avoiding the splitting, cutting, transporting, and curing of the stalk 



Every experienced tobacco-grower realizes more fully each year that he is 

 handling at heavy expense, and material injury to the leaf, a stalk entirely 

 worthless as a commodity; and, while readily admitting the fact, he has still 

 continued to follow the old and universal plan of curing, for want of some- 

 thing better. 



We now present a device by which he can cure the gathered leaves alone, 

 and let the stalk remain in the field to enrich the land. 



We will enumerate some of the advantages gained by its use: 



First. Economy of room. By putting a larger quantity on a hanger and an 

 increased number of hangers in a barn, you are enabled to cure at least four 

 times the usual quantity in the same barn. 



Second. It takes less time and less heat to cure this four times as much than 

 one house full by the old process. 



Third. It takes less time to gather and prepare it for market. 



Fourth. In curing, it saves at least three-fourths of the coal or fuel, and as 

 much in time. 



Fifth. It saves all the trouble of stripping after it is cured and one-half the 

 trouble in assorting. 



Sixth. It enables you to employ cheap labor in gathering, thereby saving 

 nearly one-half the usual expense. 



Seventh. It saves the tearing and bruising of the leaves, and useless weight 

 consequent upon the presence of the stalk. 



Eighth. It allows you to save the leaves as they ripen, and let the green 

 ones remain to mature. 



Ninth. It saves every leaf in the crop, and leaves no waste or rubbish. 



Tenth. There is much less danger of injury from "running," on account ot 

 the absence of the stalk. 



