Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1883 — North Carolina Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

North Carolina Tobacco.

In North Carolina, where the tobacco is employed almost exclusively for chewing, smoking in pipes and cigarettes, the planters strive to produce a bright, lemon-colored leaf, it being the most highly prized and commanding the highest prices. A large portion of the tobacco grown in North Carolina is cured by artificial heat. .Log. tobacco barns, fifteen or twenty feet square, closely plastered, are Used. Heat is admitted to the barns by a system of flues, and is regulated by a thermometer. By this arrangement the crop is quickly prepared for market. The proper regulation of heat in these barnes, with other causes, are instrumental in producing the “bright” leaf for which the State is noted. This bright leaf is emplbyed for the outside wrapper on fine plug tobacco. The first grade of color is termed “lemon” and the t second“mahogany,” from which it shades doirz? or/bnary colors.