Curing Stick, Cut Cut tobacco sticks replaced hand split versions once they became cheap and easy to procure. Because the cut was against the grain, however, they had about half the strength of split sticks. $http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/artifact.aspx?id=tao Tobacco Farm Life Museum 13904 745 North Carolina History and Fiction Collection encdl Artifacts encdlartifacts Tobacco Farm Life Museum tfl Curing Stick, Cut Cut tobacco sticks replaced hand split versions once they became cheap and easy to procure. Because the cut was against the grain, however, they had about half the strength of split sticks. $http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/artifact.aspx?id=tao J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University 13904 local, filename 13904.0001 17709136 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 5e08b2484749eaf5e80ab0ed793d2f51 ecu:digital_collections 3008 1960 RGB mm mm 20110209 Digital Collections Nikon D200 D200 Adobe Photoshop 10.0.1 object plane in. 300 1 300 1 8 8 8 integer 3 internal null md5 True