. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture. 160 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. these in turn must be picked off. When the bottom suckers are removed the plant is usually ready to harvest. Ordinarily the plant is allowed to "ripen," a condition which is further indicated by the slightly wilted appearance of the bottom leaves. Light green blotches also appear on the top leaves. If cut too green the leaf becomes dark colored and will not command the best price. Shade-grown Tobacco. The year 1900 marks the real beginning of the "tobacco grown und
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture. 160 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. these in turn must be picked off. When the bottom suckers are removed the plant is usually ready to harvest. Ordinarily the plant is allowed to "ripen," a condition which is further indicated by the slightly wilted appearance of the bottom leaves. Light green blotches also appear on the top leaves. If cut too green the leaf becomes dark colored and will not command the best price. Shade-grown Tobacco. The year 1900 marks the real beginning of the "tobacco grown under cloth " industry in the Connecticut valley. It was begun as an experiment in the production of Sumatra wrappers. Imported Sumatra seed was sown, but it was soon found that real Sumatra could not be grown success- fully in the Connecticut valley. Cuban Havana, having a little heavier leaf, was tried next; it grew well in its new surroundings. Through careful seed selection it approached more nearly the ideal leaf. An accli- mated strain of Cuban seed is now used exclusively for "tent grown" tobacco. SHADB-GHOWH TOBACOO ACREAGE IH THE COHHEWICIIT VALIET /3/g /9/7 19/6 l3tS 4939 3,609 /9M 5/^4 /9/3 IJ40 i^ia. 1,3 OG ISII /,3dS 1316 /j60O /SOZ 730 j3ol 4/ ltQq{__A^. Fig. 3. — Production of shade-grown tobacco. Notice the rapid and remarkably uniform increase in acreage since 1913. History. — The early history of the industry was marked by varied successes and failures. One grower, for example, a pioneer in the shade- grown venture, sold his first crop for $ a pound, while his second crop yielded him 50 cents a poimd. As a result he went back to sun-grown tobacco entirely. Another grower began m 1902, but raised no shade- grown in 1904 and 1905. He tried the industry again in 1906, and has. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrat
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