The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-29
A REVOLUTION IN CURING TO-
BACCO.
from Green to Dry and Ready for the
Market in One Curing.


HIGH POINT, N. c., April 26.-The
many various industries in North Caro-
lima which the CHRONICLE noticed of
late, is awakening an interest in these
matters throughout the entire State.
Of the various industrial institutions
to which we have referred, all worthy
of the attention they have received, there
are still many others that will be noticed
later on.
There is one enterprise, however, an
immense establishment, that is doing
great good to the agricultural interests
and which deserves greater notice than
can be given in single newspaper ar
ticle, and that is Shows Modern Tobac-
co B Urn, at Hight Point, N. c.
This institution alone would make any
place famous. So far it is the founda-
ton of what exceeds in Importance, to
the farmers of North Carolina, anything
ever devised for the curing of tobacco.
We found Capt. W. 81. Snow hard at
work-a grizzled veteran of some sixty
summers and winters, but wearing his
years as lightly as bride her orange
blossoms. He received us courteOusly
and went with us through the busy
place. Wood by the car load, wire by
the ton, baskets of various sizes by the
hundreds, are daily put into the store
houses to be ready for the coming sea-
son. Capt. Snow has worked a revolu-
tion in the tobacco world. He has done
more than this. He has put it in the
power of every farmer in the State to
make tobacco growing an unfailing sue
cess as well as pleasure and profit
AS we entered the Office large force
of clerks were busy unpacking and get
ting ready for the mail, ten thousand
copies of the most complete and hand
some book on tobacco that We have ever
seen. We sat down and enjoyed pipe
of the celebrated Modern Barn smoking
tobacco, which by the way, is the most
| delightful smoke from the pipe we ever
had, while we engaged ourselves Unlocking
at the engravings and colored Autographs
with which the book is profusely illus
trated. Every farmer should have one
of these books, which he can get by
sending his address to Capt. Snow.
Closely allied to the manufacture OF
tobacco is its curing TO some readers
who are not accustomed to hear such
terms we will say that the process by
which the product is changed from a
green to dry state ready for the marke,
is called curing. However fine a tobacco
crop may be, however well it has been
fertillzed and cultivated, unless proper
and very efficient hands cure 1t, it il
merely waste or draw back to the farm
er. Tobacco is, then, greatly dependen
upon its cure. The old style of curing
has been to take the tobacco from th'
field on the stalk, put it in a log barr
and there fire it in trying to cure th'
leaf aud kill the stalk. Some years ag'
Capt. w. II. Snow began the study of
remedy for this poor way of curing tn
leaf. He readily saw that while 20
degrees of heat would kill the stalk,
would so lnjure the leaf that it's true sub
stance was scorched out and nothing bu
it's shape and odor was left. 1t was no lii
tie task. For some years he has bee
! studying its remedy and now comes fort
to astonlsh farmers with his wOnderfu
Modern Barn" This barn is strongl
put together. It has ventilation perfec,
It is arranged so that in filling the bar
there is little trouble or expense. Th
, leaf which the old way is cut off on th
cumbersome stalk is now taken from th
plant as it ripens, is put on one side {
. wire which comes through the site
. making room on each Of same for fro
seven to nine leaves. These leaves al
all arithmetically correct in their pos
ton, no two preventing the passage
air. These sticks are filed with toba
g co in this manner and instead of clim
q ing way up in the top OF the barn
: place it ip position, they put it upon
carriage tier, which, when full, is easi
run up to the top of the barn. Thus the
is little trouble and even children can {
Q the work. After all the tiers are filed
/, is seen that there is many times as mu'
l. tobacco as is put in common log barn
70 The Aues are so arranged that it has
/, greater effect on nearer than dista
% leaves, for the whole barn is filed
). the principle of $50 much room to t
Ie leaf" One can stand at the bottom
l. filled barn and see a space to the t
ID around each leaf, thus giving it all t
IN advantages of receiving the heat
ID every side. Tobacco thus cured ne1
es undergoes another sweat, the evapol
~ ton being perfect.
b But must stop here. Gne cam
,e giver farmers bitter advice than to t
N Captain Shows wonderful barn. 1t v
at pay them in this day hard times. I
ill CHRONICLE rejoices that there is re
,g edy for "hard times" in places VIII
ne the people believe in planting 81
r. world in tobacco.