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growing tobacco
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growing tobacco
Tiny tobacco seeds were planted in seed beds.They wre covered with pine branches to protect them from the cold. -
Fields
Forests were cleared to make new tobacco fields.Tobacco ruined the soil after 4 or 5 years and new fields had to be constantly prepared, -
Transplant
After two months in the seedbeds, tobacco plants were llarge enough to transplant. -
worming
As the tobacco grew in the fields it had to be checked often for tobacco worms. -
harvesting
Late in summer or early fall the tobacco was harvested. -
drying
Stakes were hung in tobacca barns to dry for six to ten weeks.