. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. CONNECTICUT VALLEY CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO. 155 The distribution of acreage according to counties and towns within the counties is given in the following table: — Table 11. — Distribution of Acreage of Tobacco according to Counties and Towns in Massachusetts. Franklin County. Location. Average Acres per Farm. Location. Average Acres per Farm. Ashfield, Buckland Conway, Deerfield Montague Northfield Sunderland, .... Whately Average, .... Greenfield, Leverett Hampshire
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. CONNECTICUT VALLEY CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO. 155 The distribution of acreage according to counties and towns within the counties is given in the following table: — Table 11. — Distribution of Acreage of Tobacco according to Counties and Towns in Massachusetts. Franklin County. Location. Average Acres per Farm. Location. Average Acres per Farm. Ashfield, Buckland Conway, Deerfield Montague Northfield Sunderland, .... Whately Average, .... Greenfield, Leverett Hampshire County. Amherst, Easthampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton,. Pelham, Southampton, Williamsburg, Average, Hampden County. Agawam, Chicopee, East Longmeadow, Granville, Longmeadow Southwick, . Springfield, . Westfield, . Average, The comparatively large acreage in Chicopee is due to the inclusion of large shade-grown plantations. To a lesser extent this is true of Southwick and Agawam, but the land in these sections is generally level and the soil favorable to the production of tobacco. Consequently the acreage per farm is larger. Types of Cigar Leaf Tobacco. Tobacco-growing in the United States is a highly specialized industry. Certain well-defined areas produce tobacco of such quality and texture as to make it desirable for some special manufacturing or export 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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