tobacco-drying

Updated: August 26, 2026

These bottoms are annually overflowed, so that the crude little farmsteads are on the rising ground whitewashed cabins, many of them of logs, serve as houses; for stock, there are the veriest shanties, affording practically no shelter; best of all, the rude tobacco-drying sheds, in many of which some of last year's crop can still be seen, hanging on the strips.

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