152 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. 



The cigar type industry of New England is confined principally to the 

 Connecticut and Housatonic valleys, extending through Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts into the southern counties of New Hampshire and Vermont. 

 Hartford County, Connecticut, produces 64.7 per cent of the New Eng- 

 land total, and six counties, Hartford, Litchfield and Tolland in Connect- 

 icut, and Hampsliire, Franklin and Hampden in Massachusetts, produce 

 approximately 97.5 per cent. 



