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Tobacco seeds are planted in a seedbed in a protected arera. They were covered in pine branches to protect them from the cold.They were watered and weeded.
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During winter forests were cleared to fields. Tobacco ruined the soil after four or five years and new fields had to be constontly prepared.
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After two months in the seedbeds tobacco plants were large enough to transplant. In preperation for planting the soil in each field was hoed into smallmounds or hills.
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As the tabacco grew in the fields it had been often checked for tobacco worms. The only way to remove worms was to go through the field and remove them from each leaf.
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Late in Summer or in early Fall tobacco was harvested. The entire stalk of each tobacco plant was cut at the bottom of and left to wilt.
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Stakes were hung in tobacco barnes to dry for six to ten weeks.
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When the leaves on the stake was dry they were taken down and stripped from there stalks.
