. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . es will be made, sometimes as many as eightor ten in all, based upon differences in color, texture, and body. A greatnumber of grades are recognized by the trade, as wrappers, cutters, ex-port leaf, fillers, smokers, etc., and each of these is subdivided into a 40 The Bulletin number of grades, but, of course, only a few of them would appear inany single crop or curing. The better grades of lugs and leaf are tiedinto comparatively small hands of about 10 or 15 leaves each, but thepoorer lug grades are generally tied into l
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . es will be made, sometimes as many as eightor ten in all, based upon differences in color, texture, and body. A greatnumber of grades are recognized by the trade, as wrappers, cutters, ex-port leaf, fillers, smokers, etc., and each of these is subdivided into a 40 The Bulletin number of grades, but, of course, only a few of them would appear inany single crop or curing. The better grades of lugs and leaf are tiedinto comparatively small hands of about 10 or 15 leaves each, but thepoorer lug grades are generally tied into larger hands of 20 to 40 leaveseach. The hands or bundles are tied with a leaf, which is folded forthis purpose by turning both edges backward and inward so as to forma neat band. This is then deftly given a couple of turns tightly aroundand partially or completely covering the butts of the leaves forming thebundle, beginning with the tip of the tie-leaf. The butt end of the tieis tucked through the hand between the leaves so as to wedge and holdthe tie-leaf in Fig. 12. A side view of house given in Fig. 11, showing the outsideconstruction for ordering room in right end. Before placing tobacco on the market, it should be brought into goodbut not too high order, and its appearance will be improved if it isbulked down either on or off the sticks for a day or two. In most sec-tions of the flue-cured district the farmer can dispose of his tobaccoeither by direct sale on the warehouse floor or through the growers pool-ing organization. If sold on the warehouse floor, care should be takento avoid a glutted market, for at such time the prices are generally some-what reduced because the buyers cannot handle and take care of it asfast as it comes in. The entire cost of producing and marketing flue-cured tobacco is esti-mated at 6 to 10 cents a pound, according to conditions. Several of the cuts in this bulletin were taken from Department Bulletin No. 16 of the U. of
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