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_ Receiving and packing burley tobacco is made easier by arranging
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Circular 513
1 Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics
OM-ll·5’   College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Universit of Kentucky
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` and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating
» FRANK J. WELCH, Director
· Issued in furtherance of the Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914.

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i Pointers for Warehouse Operators .............................................. 3 ·
" l. Teach Employees Easier Ways to Pack Tobacco ...r.............,.A 3 y
1 2. Use Two-Man Packing Crews .............................................. 5
l 3. Select Team Mates Carefully ................................................ 5
‘ . 4. Complete Sorting Before Packing ........................................ 5
5. Use Stick Racks .................................,................................ 6
6. Have Twine Handy .............................................................. 6
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i Pointers for Stickmen .................,.............................................. 6 - C(
l. Place Empty Basket Near the Pile of Tobacco ...................... 6 I_€_
2. Place Stick Rack Within Easy Reach .................................... 7 I
1 3. Stand so as to Pass Tobacco the Easiest Way ........................ 8
1 4. Divide the Tobacco Before Lifting the Whole Stick .............. 8 — 19
' 5. Turn Stick End-for-End to Pass the Second Half of the 81]
. Tobacco .......................................................,...................... 8 Wi
\ 6. Place Tobacco Convenient to Packer ......................,............. 9 1 (4
l 7. Summary of Pointers for Stickmen ...................................... 9
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Q Pointers for the Packers ............................................................ l0 C21
l. Pack Tobacco in Half-Stick Bunches .................................... lO HT
2. Make Packing Movements Automatic .................................. l0 V gm
3. Summary of Pointers for Packers ........................................ ll hc
Pointers to Help Packer and Stickman Work Together ................ l2 (BH
l. Getting Ready to Pack ........................................................ l2
~ 2. Packing .............................................................................. l2
3. Moving the Packed Basket and Preparing to Pack the Next .. l2 I
Pointers for Farmers Preparing Cured Burley for Market ............ l3 i d
l. Use Straight Smooth Sticks ..........,...........................,........... l4 J;
2. Sort While Stripping ............................................................ l4 I ll
3. Press Tobacco ...................................................................... l4 _ Ca
4. Load by Groups of Grades ...................................,................ l4 Z  
Conclusion ................................................................................ l5 Y6
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Easier ond Time-Soving Work Methods ’
s . for Receiving ond Packing Burley
. Tobocco on Sales Baskets
I By Wendell C. Binkley, George B. Byers, and Dana G. Card
The time and work used to unload tobacco from a truck and _
pack it on sales baskets vary greatly among warehouse workers. ~
*  Costs in getting a given quantity of tobacco packed on baskets,
ready for sale, vary accordingly.
( A study of unloading and packing tobacco, made during the
; 1947 to 1950 marketing seasons, indicates that differences in ease
~ and time are due largely to: (1) work methods, (:2) convenience
l A with which the work area is arranged, (3) crew organization, and
; (4) equipment used.
Packing crews which accomplished most, planned their work
y . carefully in advance, and used work methods which were least
y tiring. There usually is a best way to do any job. The information
0 and recommendations given here can help warehousemen, ware-
1 yi house workers, and producers develop and use easier and more
2  p efficient work methods.
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2 Pointers for Warehouse Operators
2 . l. Teach employees easier ways to pack tobacco _
3 Ease and efficiency in working depends on how you go about
4 doing the job. This applies to all work in a sales warehouse.
I 4 ( Work methods are especially important in packing tobacco be-
I 4 V cause nearly three-fourths of all warehouse labor is used for this
14 job.
I5 Industries that employ workers to do jobs which must be
repeated over and over, have found that it pays to give special
mstruction to new employees. Under close supervision, they are
taught to work in the way which exp€ri€nC€ and study 1lH\’€ A
Z Proven to be easiest and most efficient. (

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Q { their employees at the beginning of each sales season. This as- pm
1 sures greater uniformity in the appearance of packed baskets.
T Experienced workers explain and show the best way to pack. A 2-
i Through this instruction, the workers learn and do the job the s
p right way from the start, and so avoid unnecessary movements Wh
and waste of effort. Kentucky Extension Leaiiet 134 is useful in I ON
i this type of group instruction, and presents ideas for making UW
A packing easier for the individual worker. .
i A few warehouse operators have purchased circular packing UV
z i frames which aid workers in learning to pack a uniformly round . {W
if and straight-sided basket (Fig. 1). Some experienced packers  y OU
also prefer to use a frame because of the greater ease with which ‘ tea
( packing can be done.   4
I Some warehouses have the names of packer and sticknian lm-
ll written on the back of the ticket before each basket is packed. PW
l This establishes responsibility for the pack and identifies the good lm
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iv fm packer as well as the poor one. \/Varehouses which follow this l
iS M- practice seem to get packing of uniformly high quality. l
   Q 2. Use 2-man packing crews
b the  ° Use only two men in each crew, a stickman and a packer,
new   when packing tobacco from piles on the warehouse floor. If two I
ful in ` or more baskets from the same crop are to be packed at the same
mkiug · time, assign other.2—man crews to the job. r
A In packing directly from a truck, the 2-man crew operates
lckiug in the same manner as when packing from a pile. The main dif-
lmmd r ference is that the stickman receives the tobacco from someone .
ackm _A  on the truck, who usually is not a permanent part of the packing r
which team;
There are times when two 2-man teams pack tobacco as it is
Ckmau A unloaded from a truck. For example, there may be an extra
packed ° packing crew available and some urgency for getting the truck
6 good . unloaded. A second crew can be used to best advantage if an
Y extra man is available to unload from the truck. Each truckman
4 . then works with one 2-man packing crew.
-» ” Small crews are especially important in an operation that is
 t not well standardized, or where crews change jobs or locations
Z frequently. On a sales warehouse floor, small crews can be super-
_ L rised more easily than larger ones.
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   s 3. Select teammates carefully
; 2 _ Assign workers of equal skill to the same team and have these
A   T men work together from day to day. If one member of a 2-man
  ` fcam is slower than the other, even when each is using the best
. work methods, the slower member sets the pace for both. .
4,  A 4. Complete sorting before packing
   _ When sorting is necessary, less time will be lost waiting for
iii; f _ Y0l)HCC0 and fewer mistakes will be made if sorting is completed
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   , l0l>acco while sorting is being done, and then changes from one
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Receiving and packing burley tobacco are made easier by
ie next . stripping and handling the tobacco in groups of uniform quality
Ulovlllg p and Color, by pressing all tobacco, and by using only straight
ey work p Smooth sticks free of spliHt€fS.
A mr Kentucky publications have presented easier and more efficient
ways ot handling the several phases of tobacco production and preparation
‘   mllfket. See Kentucky Extension Circulars 482 and 483, and Leaflets 75,
. /1.70. 84, 85, 90, 92. 103, 111, 112. and 134.

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l T l. Use straight smooth sticks
  t Smooth sticks have advantages in both the stripping room . bs
A l and the warehouse. They enable packer and stickman to pack i tht?
T a more attractive basket of tobacco than if attention is being dig. th€
l tracted because of broken, rough, crooked, or splintery tobacco Clul
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2. Sort while stripping
- In stripping tobacco, each worker handles only one group of
grades at a time. For example, one worker strips the lugs, an- _
other the {lyings, etc. Each worker separates his group into lub
l grades, as needed, during stripping. He holds the main grade in _ WO
l his hand until it is tied, and lays down other grades having only . of
one or two leaves per stalk. T gre
1 With large crops, suizlicient tobacco is available to permit daily  
l bulking of each group of grades in a separate coop. With small WH
I crops, marks may be placed on the sticks to identify each group, . EH
l after which they can all be bulked in a single coop. The marks P9]
l make it easy to recognize the various groups for separation in W
l loading. . Sm
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3. Press tobacco
Pressed tobacco is more attractive and should mean more H0,
money to the producer. VVell—pressed tobacco handles easier, and ge,
with less waste for the farmer in bulking, loading, and un- l T in
loading. Also pressed tobacco handles and packs more easily
1 than unpressed tobacco at the warehouse.  l
4. Load by groups of grades
Unloading and packing burley tobacco at the sales warehouse
are done more easily and quickly when the Hyings, lugs, leaf, and
tips are handled at the farm and loaded separately. Loading in l
this order, at the farm, places the more valuable tobacco iua .
protected position on the truck. By loading each group sep-
arately, a farmer knows the number of sticks of each kind of t0-
bacco and plans with the warehouseman for the number of bas
kets needed. It also may help the farmer get space on the wart-
house iloor. Knowing the number of sticks of each kind of t0·
bacco helps the stickman and packer plan the size of baskets.

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The farmer who loads his tobacco according to the way it will  
mom be packed, makes it possible to unload and pack directly from
Pack ` the truck. This saves time and space at the warehouse. It enables
I diS_ the farmer to get his tobacco unloaded and ready for sale more
gacco  · quickly, and avoids the shattering of tobacco caused by addi-
` tional handling when sorted at the warehouse.
i Conclusion I
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S an Relatively few mechanical or labor—sav1ng devices have come
finw T into use in growing and marketing burley tobacco. Much of the p
ide in - work in sales warehouses, therefore, is strictly hand labor. Ways i
I (mh, °·  of making such labor easier and more effective are important if
° ' greater economy in handling tobacco is to be brought about.
zdailv No one person, or group of persons, can devise any one best
Small _ way of receiving and packing tobacco under all circumstances.
group, Q Each worker and supervisor must observe, think about, and ex-
marks · periment with different methods, movements, and ways in doing
ion in each particular task, and decide what is best in the circum-
 . stances under which he works. Some operations may be elimi-
‘ mated entirely.
_ The suggestions given here offer improvements over methods
l more T HOW used by most warehouse workers. It is hoped that these sug-
€Y» and _ ; gestions will stimulate all workers to improve still further the way
id ““‘ in which they are doing their important tasks.
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