. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture. CONNECTICUT VALLEY CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO. 167 the field; others attribute it to bad weather, hail, wind storms, frost, etc. Tobacco depends almost entirely upon a sufficient amount of rain and warm weather. The seasons of the last few years have not been favorable to a good growth of tobacco. Actually, the low yield of 1915 is the great cause of the low average. Figure 5 presents in graphic form the history of the average yield in Massachusetts from 1900 to 1918. Of the Connecticut valley sun-grown crop in 1917 it is estimat
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture. CONNECTICUT VALLEY CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO. 167 the field; others attribute it to bad weather, hail, wind storms, frost, etc. Tobacco depends almost entirely upon a sufficient amount of rain and warm weather. The seasons of the last few years have not been favorable to a good growth of tobacco. Actually, the low yield of 1915 is the great cause of the low average. Figure 5 presents in graphic form the history of the average yield in Massachusetts from 1900 to 1918. Of the Connecticut valley sun-grown crop in 1917 it is estimated that only 60 per cent was not injured by hail, wind or frost, while the loss in shade-grown tobacco by h?il was perhaps not over 3 per Fig. 5. — Average yield of tobacco per acre in Massachusetts, 1900-18. The production per acre and the total farm value per acre for the chief tobacco-producing states are given in the following table. It is evident that the largest per acre jdelds in the United States are still reported from the Connecticut valley tobacco Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974
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