Looks like they used wooden crates for the sprouting.
Glass negative. Maybe turn of the 1900’s
Looks like the starter farm that was still in operation when I first moved here. Many tens of thousands of tobacco plant starts going out on flats stacked on long wagons. Towed 5-6 trailers at a time behind pick up trucks. They went out of business when the tobacco warehouses went out of business when growers moved overseas to escape lawsuits.