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the field; others attril)iite it to l)ad weather, hail, wind storms, frost, 

 etc. Tobacco depends ahiiost entirely upon a sufficient amount of rain 

 and warm weather. The seasons of the last few years have not been 

 favorable to a good gro\\i,h of tobacco. Actually, the low yield of 1915 

 is the great cause of the low average. 



Figure 5 presents in graphic form the history of the average jaeld in 

 Massachusetts from 1900 to 1918. Of the Connecticut valley sun-grown 

 crop in 1917 it is estimated that only 60 per cent was not injured by hail, 

 wind or frost, while the loss in shade-grown tobacco by h?il was perhaps 

 not o^'er 3 per cent. 



Fig. 5. — Average yield of tobacco per acre in Massachusetts, 1900-18. 



The production per acre and the total farm value per acre for the chief 

 tobacco-producing states are given in the following table. It is evident 

 that the largest per acre jields in the United States are still reported from 

 the Connecticut valley tobacco fields. 



