Mr.
Culp thinks the dryness of the climate no disadvantage.

I was told that they find it useful sometimes to sprinkle the floors of the tobacco-houses.
I saw racks, too, in the fields--portable, and easily carried anywhere; and on these a great quantity of Florida tobacco, used for chewing and smoking, had been or was getting cured.

It was piled in the field where it was cut, and the whole curing process, up to "bulking," is carried on in the open air.

Havana "fillers" they also cure in the field, as the fine color is not needed for that.
Mr.Culp thought his method of horizontal suspension allowed the juices from the stalk to be carefully distributed among the leaves.

He told me that a fair average crop was about 1500 pounds of Havana, or 2500 pounds of Florida, per acre, of merchantable leaf.