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'Simple equipment makes the stripping and grading job easier, and enables the farmer to market a neater, higher quality leaf. In the foreground is a tobacco stalk rack for the stripped stalk. When the rack is full, the stalks can be easily tied into a bundle and stored in the dry until they are spread on the ground. Over the stalk rack is another rack for holding tobacco sticks on which hands of the same grade are placed until the stick is full. When the stick is filled it is transferred to the tobacco press (top right) and the press lid lowered to iron out the rough wrinkled stick of hands into a neat stick which will bulk neatly without a bulge just below the tie on the hand.'

1. Tobacco Farmer Demonstrating Steps in the Processing of Stripping and Grading

IDNO:
001536
Title:
Tobacco Farmer Demonstrating Steps in the Processing of Stripping and Grading
Date:
undated
Description:
'Simple equipment makes the stripping and grading job easier, and enables the farmer to market a neater, higher quality leaf. In the foreground is a tobacco stalk rack for the stripped stalk. When the rack is full, the stalks can be easily tied into a bundle and stored in the dry until they are spread on the ground. Over the stalk rack is another rack for holding tobacco sticks on which hands of the same grade are placed until the stick is full. When the stick is filled it is transferred to the tobacco press (top right) and the press lid lowered to iron out the rough wrinkled stick of hands into a neat stick which will bulk neatly without a bulge just below the tie on the hand.'
"Hanging primed leaves on stick in Mason County. This grower primed about 600 sticks from 1 1/2 acres in 1945."

2. Tobacco Farm, Mason County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053182
Title:
Tobacco Farm, Mason County, W. Va.
Date:
1945
Description:
"Hanging primed leaves on stick in Mason County. This grower primed about 600 sticks from 1 1/2 acres in 1945."
A field of Kentucky 41A tobacco in Mason County, W. Va. This tobacco was primed and permitted to stand in the field until thoroughly ripe even in extreme dry weather.

3. Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.

IDNO:
053194
Title:
Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900-1940
Description:
A field of Kentucky 41A tobacco in Mason County, W. Va. This tobacco was primed and permitted to stand in the field until thoroughly ripe even in extreme dry weather.