Spray Plantation, Near the St. Mary's River, Maryland, l661

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	Packing Hogsheads for Shipping      When the tobacco leaves are dry, they are stripped from their stalks and tied into a fan-shaped bunch, called a hand. The hands are tightly packed into barrels called hogsheads. A hogshead measures about 43 inches high and about twenty-seven inches across. It weighs about 400 pounds when packed. Hogshead packed with hands of dry tobacco leaves
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Sue Freienmuth for Montgomery County Public Schools, MD, Oct. 25, 2000