Just an inside joke relating to another article on a pot bust. Thanks deweeze, I did not know that!

SuperDave, most of the tobacco around here is used in other industries and not for smoking.

Let's hope that this significantly reduces the available tobacco on the streets of Rock County.
Ha!

Talking Monkey, we already covered this on another discussion. Newspapers are all struggling and they don't always have 24/7 staff available to instantly update the internet version of every story. Even TV news doesn't provide constant updates on every single story, except for the 24-hour news channels. If you think you can make a go of doing something like that on a local level, go for it -- but it's unreasonable to criticize the Gazette for not having reporters staked 24/7 on every barn fire.

By the way, the fire is out. Nice reporting job Gazoot...

This particular shed had a strip house in it. Any other questions?

I hope the firefighters are safe and stay warm! The actual name for the building you strip tobacco in is called a stripping house, and is not a barn it is a tobacco shed. we were a tobacco family most of my life. the hardest work out there and we did it from little up. And that is where our teaching of work ethics came from.

I used to hate fighting fires when it was this cold. Stay warm guys been there done that and its not much fun.

A tobacco shed is where tobacco is hung to cure after harvesting.

Stripping, removing the leaves from the stalk, is done once the tobacco has cured (generally around the first of January). When my grandparents and parents raised it we stripped tobacco in our garage or in a little shack with a woodburner in it. We never stripped it in the tobacco shed.

Look out for the secondhand smoke!

They were stripping tobacco in it and it is used as a hanging shed in the fall. There are fuel tanks nearby as well... scary scene.

Do they keep tobacco in it? Or is that a way to describe some other kind of barn?
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Hope the firefighters are keeping warm and dry and safe!