Swisher International Group, decided to suspend the use of barn advertisements when Warrick retired. In the heyday of barn advertising (around 1900–1940) many companies paid farmers to use their barns as roadside ads, with other tobacco products (such as "Beech Nut" tobacco) and local feed and grain stores being the most common, but Mail Pouch was the only product advertised in so widespread and consistent a manner in this fashion. References External links More information and pictures of Mail Pouch Barns Mail Pouch Barnstormers Organization Web Site Barns in the United States History of the Midwestern United States Tobacco advertising Tobacco barns Tobacco buildings in the United States