Data relating to the current agriculture of sliade-grown tobiicco 

 and associated subjects in Connecticut were obtained from The Shade 

 Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, Inc.; Economic Research 

 Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; \arious publications of the Depart- 

 ment's Agricultural Marketing Service; booklets issued by the Con- 

 necticut Agricultural Experiment Station and b) the Storrs Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, College of .\griculture. University of Connecticut. 

 Information on tobacc^o manufacturing and commerce came from the 

 Connecticut Dept. of Labor; various compilations of the I'.S. Dept. of 

 Commerce, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Association 

 of Tobacco Distributors' CnnrHirurtnr: on cigarette taxation. Excise 

 Section, Connecticut Ta^ mmMi^i,,! reports of the 



Tobaccf/ Tax Council. 



The chief sources of information dealing with earlier periotls were 

 The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vol. 1, ed. J. H. 

 Trumbull (1850); The Uistonj of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 

 Henr>' R. Stiles (1859); "Report on Tobacco," J. B. Killebrew, and 

 "Statistics of Manufacturers of Tobacco," J. R. Dodge, Iwth in the 

 Tenth Census, 1880 ( 1883); "Hartford County Tobacco," by Fred S. 

 Brown and "Suffield," by H. S. Sheldon, both in Memorial History of 

 Hartford County, cd. J. H. Trumbull (1886); Production of Cigar- 

 Wrapper Tobacco, J. R. Stewart (1908); History of Hartford County, 

 Charles W. Burpee (1928); The History of Tobacco Production in the 

 Connecticut Valley, Elizabeth Ram.sey, in Smith College Studies in 

 History, XV (1930); A History of Tobacco Production in New Eng- 

 land, Clarence I. Hendrick.son, Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Connecticut Agricultural College (Oct. 1931); The Economic Devel- 

 opment of the Cigar Industry, W. N. Baer (1933); The History of 

 Tobacco Production in Connecticut, Historical Pub. no. LII, Ter- 

 tentenarv Commission of the State df Connecticut, Adrian F. Mc- 

 Donald (1936). 



The quotations on pages 20-21 are from Trumbull's edition of the 

 Records cited above; the first on page 22 is from Collections of the 

 Massachusetts Historical Society, 5th Series, vol. viii (1882), the 

 second is from Trumbull's edition; tliat on page 23 is from History of 

 Greenfield, F. M. Thompson (1900); that on page 39 is from Kille- 

 brew 's "Report," cited above. 



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