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Tiny tobacco seeds are planted. They are covered in with pine branches to protect. They are watered and weeded.
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growing tobacco took a year. it also was very difficult labor so they bought. slaves
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They are lare enough to transplant. All of them are set on small mound for growing.
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They had to be checked for tobacco worms. Also, they had to be watered if there was little rain!
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The entire stalk of tobacco is cut at the bottom then it is left to wilt on a stake.
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The stakes are hung in barns to dry for about two months.
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The leaves were taken off the stakes and striped off the stalks.
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They are bunndled into "hands." It is packed in barrels. The barrels are rolled down "rolling roads" to wharfs.
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The tobacco is sent to England
