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Title: American tobacco types, uses, and markets
Identifier: americantobacco249gage (find matches)
Year: 1942 (1940s)
Authors: Gage, Charles E. (Charles Ellsworth), b. 1882-; United States. Department of Agriculture
Subjects: Tobacco Varieties
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : United States Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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62 CIRCULAR 2 4 9, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE The requirements of an auction warehouse are ample floor space on a single floor, and uniformity of lighting (fig. 29). In meeting these primary requirements a type of architecture has been evolved which is so distinctive that an auction warehouse can be recognized almost as far as it can be seen; the low roof, studded with skylights, character- izes it at once (fig. 30). Within is a spacious floor of planking or con-
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Figure 30.—Airplane photograph of typical auction warehouse located at Lake City, S. C, showing the skylights for obtaining uniform light on tobacco offered for sale. Special ribbed glass is used for diffusing the light. Five drive-ins may be seen at the front of the warehouse. On the right or north side may be seen shelters under which trucks are loaded with tobacco after the sale, for transporting it to the different company handling plants. These arrangements are fairly typical of auction warehouses or sales floors throughout the Southern States where tobacco is sold at auction. This warehouse has a floor space of approximately 90,000 square feet, and a capacity of approximately 750,000 pounds of tobacco. crete, with a driveway down one side or possibly both sides, usually 3 or 3>i feet below the floor level, to facilitate unloading. At the front end is the office, and usually about halfway down one side are the scales. There must be a drive on one or both sides where farmers may unload their tobacco and arrange it in neat piles on the trays, or baskets as they are known. Farmers deliver their tobacco in wagons or trucks and build it up in orderly piles on the baskets. It is trucked first to the scales where a ticket is prepared showing the grower's name, the number of pounds, and the serial number of the lot, and containing spaces for indicating later the name of the buyer, his private grade mark, and the price per pound. The tobacco is next trucked to its place on the warehouse floor where it is arranged in long rows (fig. 31). The sales are conducted rapidly. In the flue-cured and Burley districts the sale seldom is less than 360 baskets per hour, and rates

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