Around the Banks

My mind travels back to a time in North Central Florida when the tobacco markets were opened, and it was a time of excitement, anticipation and, in our part of the world, had a whole culture surrounding it. When tobacco was cured, it was placed in pack houses (storage houses) and, later, placed into burlap sheets in bundles. When I can first recall, an anvil was placed in the center of a tobacco sheet, and the farmers or workers formed an almost perfect circle of tobacco around it, stems out, so when the tobacco was sold, it made it easier for the warehouse owners and the buyers to turn the cured tobacco over checking quality and grade. This changed when bulk barns and harvesters came into