Massachusetts 

 agricultural experiment station 



BULLETIN NO. 2«)7 JUNE, I9i?> 



The Effect of Certain Cropping 



Systems on the Yield and OuaUty 



of Havana Tobacco 



Bv A. B. Beaumont, M. E. Snell and E. B. Holland 



A historj' of one hundred years of tobacco culture in the Connecticut 

 Valley has raised many interesting questions regarding the value of crop 

 rotations and cover crops as compared with continuous culture. This 

 bulletin supplies a record of tobacco yields obtained under a variety of 

 cropping systems. 



MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE 

 AMHERST, MASS. 



