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Curing
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Kentucky
Library Broadside Collection #254 (Tobacco, John W. Barnett
Tobacco Curing) |
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Tobacco
remains one of Kentucky’s most important cash crops.
This broadside explains a new patented process for curing
leaf tobacco developed by John W. Barnett of Big Spring, Virginia.
The process involved using water that was poured near the
fires during curing. This allowed for curing at a slower rate,
which permitted green portions from "setting" thus
producing a superior yellow product. Most of the tobacco in
southcentral Kentucky is air-cured in barns, however tobacco
in western Kentucky is fire cured. |
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Kentucky
Library Purchase, 1976 |
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