The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-14

tobacco. soi' adapted to the variuos
tobaccos have been spread and real
fields of real tobacco will be seen grow
ing. In one section is to be shown the
hurley types, the kind grown in Ken
lucky, which produces more than 314,-
100000 pounds of leaf tobacco annually.
This is the dark brown leaf that is so
extensively used in the body Of plug
chewing tobaccOs. Another plot viii
form a field for the growing of the
bright types of tobaccos, the kind pro-
duced with great success mainly in Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas. Here the leaf
shades down and produces tobacco
ranging in color from yellow to gold and
from orange to lemon Another plot
will grow nothing but Sumatra tobacco,
used exclusively for wrappers for cigars.
The color of Sumatra embraces many
shades of brown and so thin do the
leaves grow that it often requires
many $50 of them to weigh a pound.
The final plot is to be given over to Ha-
Vana tobacco from which the filters are
made for the best cigars on the market.
The young plants will be tranSplanted
from Cuba and will be so handled that
they will retain all of their native char
, acteriSticS.
In central space created by these
four growing fields of tobacco will be
erected curing barn. This barn, like
all the other structures within the uni
versal tobacco exhibit will be con-
structed, or will appear to be construct
ed, entirely of tobacco. Excavations
viii be made in the ground beneath the
barn and furnaces installed. Fires will
burn in them and the heat in all parts
of the barn will be perfectly regulated.
This is most important part of the
tobacco production While the hurley
types, or the Kentucky tobaccos, are
cured in the open air, the value of the
bright types grown in Virginia and the
Carolinas depends largely on the success
in curing. The color is the thing de-
sired If the tobacco is perfectly cured
it takes on the golden lemon or orange
color, so greatly sought after, and COM
mands a price on the market sometimes
ranging as high as a dollar a pound.
Should the curing not be successfully
done the same tobacco would sell for as
low as seven cents pound.
In this curing barn the tobacco leaves
| fashioned into hands will be suspend
ed on sticks and placed in the section
where the temperature is regulated for
| the proper curing. Experts will watch
the process and remove it at the prop
er time and place more in the barn to
! undergo the curing process.
The next section to be entered will be
| long and narrow. The main thing here
sought is to show how the product is
| handled in warehouses. A large ware
| house will be built; on the floors are to
be shown hogsheads of tobacco and
| great piles of the leaf spread out in
| tempting array. On these floors the
sales will be made, the auctfoneers and
buyers going from one pile to another
/ ana inspecting the various grades. so
also will be shown truck wagons, and
! the most approved apparatus for quick
! ly handling the raw material. All
around the sides of the warehouse in
glass enclosures will be the finished
products of the tobacco graded leaf ex-
hibit from every tobacco growing state.
A either end of the warehouse will be
constructed two large seed beds show
ing how the plants must be started
New ground is best for this-ground
: p h6all n ri
soil thus prepared the seeds are sown
and the young plants carefully tended.
They are placed in cold frames and
covered with canvas. When all danger
from frost is past. and the young plants
are thrifty and have attained the size
of young cabbages ready for the trans
planting, they are taken up and set out
in the open field Transplanting is abb
solutely essential to obtain the best re-
suits in the cultivation of tobacco.
After the warehouses and the seeding
beds are observed the visitor may enter
the pagoda. In the center will be built
a pyramid with an octagonal base.
This is to be composed entirely of the
various outputs of & tobacco factory.
arranged in an art-itic manner. In
side the walls of the pagoda. in glass
cases will be arranged further exhibits
of the finished product. Pyramids
showing the relative amount of tobacco
! produced annually will also be shown in
this tobacco pagoda. Mirrors will be so
Z lHStnlcuS1E pi3ceQ IN the W2llS as TO
I create the illusion that the pagoda is
many times as large as it actually is.
The firal section of the great exhibit
space is to be occupied by the cigar makers
and the right the Havana cigar max srs
will hold forth. There will be many of
them and they viii make their wares by
/ hand with that deftness that has made the
Havana cigar famous wherever civilization
has touched In order to make the exhibit
realistic the Cubans will wear their ma
tive costumes. But few of their number
will be able to speak the English language.
However, the exhibit will be in charge of
an American and attendants who speak
/ English fuently will explain the exhibit
to visitors and one may watch the Havana
! cigar makers manufacture their famous ci-
gaTs. may see them placed in their original
1 pa cka ges and on the payment of the slip
! uIated price NAV carry away with him
! the quantity he desires.
I No less interesting will be the exhibit of
/ the American cigar makers in a similarly
I sized snacn removed from thu Cnhans ONLY
by a spacious aisle. Here will be nunler-
| Gus Amer can cigar makers busily en-
( gagged in the II anufacture Of the domestic
/ bra ds Not only are the high grades to
/ be made. but also the cheaper cheroots and
the famous stogies from West Virginia
1 and Pennsylvania As on the Havana side
the wares of the domestic cigar makers