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and there along Stonewall and Bent Creeks, in the northern part of 
Appomattox County, and along Goose Creek, in Bedford County, are 
especially famous locally for the high percentage of leaf which they 
produce suitable for plug wrappers and other high-grade purposes. 
Charlotte County, as a whole, is noted for the large proportion of 
tobacco it produces which is particularly adapted to the requirements 
of the Austrian Régie, for plug wrappers, and other high-grade pur- 
poses. The Cub Creek section of this county is particularly famed 
because of the excellent quality of the leaf produced. 
Fig. 13.—Common type of Virginia log barn for curing dark tobacco with open fires. (Photographed 
by the Bureau of Soils.) 
Figure 12 illustrates the type of seed bed common not only in the 
dark-fired Virginia district but in nearly all of the other export and 
manufacturing tobacco districts as well. A clearing is made on 
suitable land in the woods which is to be worked up after burning 
brush on the land to destroy weeds and insects and mellow the soil. 
The cheesecloth cover protects the young plants from cold and keeps 
off flying insects, which are frequently very troublesome to unpro- 
tected beds. | 
Figure 13 shows a characteristic log barn, tightly chinked and 
daubed with mud, common in Virginia and elsewhere, for curing dark 
tobacco by open fires on the earthen floor. 
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