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The crop of one of the most celebrated growers in 

 the Connecticut valley, Mr. W. W. Sanderson, is illus- 

 trated on Page 378. This field has been in tobacco for 

 more than ten successive years, yielding an average of 

 over one ton per acre in cured leaf annually. It has 

 had a light coat of stable manure annually and lime 

 every third year, and in the alternate season, 1500 to 

 2000 pounds per acre of Stockbridge special tobacco ma- 

 nure. In 1895, the Stockbridge was reduced to 1200 

 pounds per acre, and 1200 pounds cottonseed meal was 

 also used. In 1896, the same doses were repeated. The 

 1895 crop on the nine acres weighed 19,795 pounds net 

 when assorted and cased, 65 per cent being the light 

 wrappers, 15 per cent dark wrappers, and the balance 

 seconds and fillers. The '96 crop was over 50 per cent 

 light wrappers of the finest quality, and 20 per cent 

 dark wrappers, the leaf being very thin and fine. Mr. 

 Sanderson finds that the addition of some cottonseed 

 meal produces a more oily and glossy leaf, but too large 

 quantities of this meal on medium to dark soils will give 

 a dark colored leaf. 



Another remarkable instance of results obtained 

 with tobacco grown on commercial fertilizers, is offered 

 by the experience of Mr. 0. B. Lowell, of Tioga county, 

 Pa., whose crop is illustrated on Page 416. He raises 

 about 30 acres of tobacco annually, using 1000 pounds 

 per acre of Mapes Wrapper Brand, with 500 pounds per 

 acre of Mapes "tobacco starter," 20 loads of stable ma- 

 nure having been previously plowed under. The colors 

 are remarkably light, the yield large, the texture fine 

 and all that could be desired. A similar estimate comes 

 from Joseph K. Schultz, of Washingtonboro, Lan- 

 caster county, Pa., whose 1896 crop of 40 acres, the 

 eighteenth in succession on the same land, is the finest 

 he ever raised, and it is the eighth year that the land 

 has been manured in this way : Horse manure is plowed 



