Sep 14, 2009 · Cropping or trucking tobacco to the barn with it raining all day made for a miserable time for all ! Setting the tobacco back up after a big wind storm was always something not to look forward to ! Sometimes after a big rain event we had to go to the tobacco fields in the middle of the night and ditch out the ends of the rows so the water would ...

Jan 14, 2025 · Not if he don't fix the block foundation on the backside it wont. Its sagging pretty bad on one corner and a lot of the siding is starting to pop loose back there. He's got a similar situation going on with the old 2 story tobacco barn/chicken house.

May 8, 2017 · I was home at my parent's house in Mullins, SC over the weekend and took some time to explore around my dad's farm. Discovered an old curing tobacco barn that I never knew existed. Surprisingly, it was in really good shape. Here are a few pics. Also, took a pic of the old Walters Tobacco Company...

May 8, 2017 · I never even thought about all that was involved in the curing. It's an art of science. A lot of ventilation, temperature, and humidity control. So the leaves were dried to a certain color/dryness and then water/humidity was added to put …

Oct 19, 2022 · History question: I grew up in Leon county, Fl. There were still a few abandoned tobacco barns that were probably built in the 1940s. Havana, FL grew alot of tobacco, but it was way before my time. Does anybody recall seeing tobacco growing in …

Jul 16, 2019 · Now big tobacco has quit buying tobacco from farmers her and my job is gone to other countries where labor is cheap and they can buy cheap tobacco. Click to expand... Many, many years ago, my long time childhood friend and myself came into the kitchen threw the back door, washed our hands and went to the dinner table after church on a Sunday.

Dec 30, 2013 · I grew up on the coast of SC and my family was heavily involved with both farming tobacco and the warehouse business. The tobacco business has pretty much died with the exception of a few large farmers but i have been on a mission to reclaim a lot of the wood from the old tobacco barns. Here are...

Nov 13, 2019 · Best I can tell y'all is it started out in North Carolina, when famers sit up over night drying their tobacco in the barn. It was boiled chicken water and crushed salty crackers. I grew up in Georgia eating a version that had milk added to the water. My Daddy called it chicken stew. He said the chicken took the place of oysters.

Jun 6, 2019 · We worked in the tobacco patch until we got a barn full ....then we would get dad's Ford pickup, the trailer with the boat ,motor, all the tackle boxes, poles and a cooler ... we always keep frozen gallon milk jugs of water to put in the cooler ..... everything but the ice was already in the boat ....no problems with folks stealing your stuff ...

Nov 5, 2024 · For instance….3 years ago I built my wife a barn door to cover the door way going into our master bathroom. I bought the tongue and groove pine from Home Depot in Thomaston Ga. I flipped the board over and it had a “Product of Switzerland” stamp on it.