We had one old  mud chinked, log tobacco barn and one old faded, grey weatherboard sided tobacco barn. Both had large rusty piping or "flues" big around as a man....running from the stone firepit under the shed in the front throughout the barn. We used the firepits to cure tobacco with 'outsides." When the lumber mill cut the bark off of trees it usually contained about 3/4 of an inch of wood along with the bark. The outside of the tree....hence the name. A load of them delivered usually ran about $4.00 to $7.00 depending on whether it was Hardwood or Pine. You got what they had, no preference. I would look for small pieces that were mainly wood and little bark, that were easy to carve, usually Poplar. Some folks called em "Sawmill Slats." I had an Old Timer pocket knife so dull it wouldn't hardly cut hot butter and I used it to carve big wooden spoons and forks. Grandma still had one of them in her kitchen when she died. Nothing fancy but good for stirrin stews and soups. Mrs. Baisey must have bought ten or more from me over time.....at a dime apiece. She would buy it and just put it in a drawer with the others. She bought all my Blackberries and Dewberries, for 25 to 50 cents a quart. Blackberries brought the most money. I would pick berries all day....and scratch the next three weeks because I would be wrapped up with chiggers! She made Cobblers with em using biscuits she sweetened with sugar and homemade butter. She always made sure I got a taste...might be a small one but she always somehow managed to save me a taste....