This is how we did it in Clay Co First you had to Top the tobacco to make it spread then in about a month are so you haft to sucker it just before cutting. when cutting you spread tobacco stick between two rolls cut 2 rows at a time take the tobacco stick, stick it in the ground put a tobacco spear on the stick cut with a Tommy hock which we called it tobacco knife put 5 are 6 stack of tobacco on each stick then hang the Tabasco in the barn about 6 to 8 inches apart until it cored out then around first of Dec. we would strip it so we get money for Christmas. first had to wait until it rain so the tobacco would be in case damp to throw it down from the barn and pile it up in a pile and cover it up so it stay in case. then we strip it in 6 different grades 1. Trash, 2. good trash, 3. Lugs. 4. bright, 5 Dark, 6 green. Then we put in hands and put it back on tobacco stick and pile it up to keep it in case to take off to market.