, 1841-05-08
it is to be cured.

ly liable 10 De sun burned alter It Is CUT
:. And hence the splitting process may pro
i. gress, while part of the hands are engaged il
hanging that which was cut in the morning
When the afternoon has so far PROGRESSED
that tobacco may safely be cut without the
risk Of being sun burning, (Which is usually
about four or five o'clock in August, anc
somewhat earlier in September,) the cutting
process should commence, and be concluded
as soon as possible, so as to give time fol
the plants to fall sufficiently to be handled
tho same evening, or the next day, before
the sun has attained sufficient power to in.
jure them. The first cutting of the after.
noon, in the early part of the season., can
usually be hawled and hung the some evening.
That part of it which has not fallen sufficient
ly to be handled without brusing or break.
ing should be suffered to lie in the field, with.
out heaping till the next day.
1t is usual, when there is no time to hang
all the tobacco during the sam evening it is
cut, to let a part of it over till morning, to
be hung while the dew is drying off that in
the field. This may be done to advantage
if hawlrd on sleds, provided care be taken
to prevent it from beating during the night.
If suffered to lie in large heaps, it will be
greatly in ured in the course of one night
TO guard against this casualty, it shonld be
spread in long rows not more than three
or four plants deep, when the weather is
very warm. In cool weather the danger of
heating is not so great. A little experience
will teach the tobacco planter to guard
against the casualty Of which have been
speaking. 1t is very important that this
should be done, as it is completely %ruinous
to so much Of the tobacco as may become
heated to a nigh degree, as it will do if sui.
fered TO lie in large heaps over night.
There are two modes of treating tobacco
when il is cut, one is to hang it on scaffolds,
exposed to the weather the other is to hang
it at once in suitable houses.
The former method must Of necessity, be
resorted TO where there is a scarcity, Of hou-
sc rooms. BY hangin some time on a scat.
fold. the tobacco commences curing and can
be slowed much closer in the house than it
can be, with safety, when first cut. But it is
subject TO disadvantage. Those parts which
are exposed to the sun are liable to be sun
burned, and much OF it may, therefore, be
on the scaffold. Another injury,
and 4 most material one, is that if suffered
to remain on the scatfold till the leaves be-
ging to cure, they are liable to be injured
by the dews which fall every night; and
still more bv a rain, it one should happen
to fall. IL the tobacco is housef from the
scatlold before it begins 10 cure, not much is
gained in point Of room, when slowed in the
tobacco house. If suffered to hang on the
till partly cured, it may be much in.
jured by rain and dews.
The safest way, therefore, is TO put it in
houses or under sheds. as soon as it is cut.
But here again care must be taken to avoid
casualty, that Of being house burn
ed. Ii is stated in the Farmers Guide, page
265, hat if it is intended "to cure by fire the
is carried immediately from the field
TO the house, hung on sticks, as before des-
and these sticks crowded as close to-
on the tier as they can possibly be, so
as to exclude all air from the tobacco. 1t re-
IN this situation until the leaves Of the
plants become yellow, or of the color Of
leaves just before they fall. This
generally happen in four or five days,
the sticks must be spread and placed
at their proper distances IN the house,
There never was a greater, error than that
III ihC " SAtioSS AoouSNo
thus housed, would be completely ruined
Iong before the five days should have elaps.
ed. If intended to be cured without fire,
The house should be open as possible, for the
admission Of air. The sticks on which
the tobacco is hung should be placed from
to twelve inches apart, according to
The size of the tobacco. so that the air could
freely between the ranges Of sticks.
should be continued in this open order un-
the tobacco is partially cured, when it
nay be re-hung in much closer order, so as
10 make room for the later cutting. If hung
N open sheds, with tight roots, SO much the
so that the rain is prevented from
in on the tobacco, which NAV be
lone by setting up fence rails or rough plank
against the open sides Of the shed. =
If intended to be cured by fire, the house
should be rendered as tight rs possible, in oil
,arts, except the roof through which the
moke must escape. But instead Of being
together, as recommended in the ex-
ract given above, it should have space E.
Tough to prevent the plants on the different
ticks from pressing hard againt each other, ,,
fter the tobacco has completely fallen. In
tead of suffering the tobacco to hang four or .
Ivo dave before fire is mt under II. the house I