They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.

The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-century Virginia tobacco.

But they dressed the same as they do here.

The records don't say. Usually, when a farmer found a worm or a bug, he squished it with his fingers or stomped it with his foot.

It was hung in 'tobacco houses' for six to eight weeks. The term 'tobacco barn' came later.

But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.