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productiou of general farm crops and had never been used for the 

 cultivation of tobacco. It was divided by means of an unoocupied 

 space, four feet in width, running through the center of the field, 

 into two parts of equal length and width. Each of these parts was 

 subsequently sub-divided into five plats, making ten plats in all. 



The ten plats were of equal size and shape with an unoccupied 

 space of three feet in width separating adjoining plats. P^ach plat 

 measured three thousand six hundred and tweuty-nine and one- 

 half square feet, equal, approximately to one-twelfth of one acre. 

 They received the same kind and the same amount of fertilizer as 

 the plats at Hatfield. The fertilizers were applied broadcast and 

 were well harrowed in at the close of the month of April. 



First Year (1893.) After a careful mechanical preparation of 

 the soil, the plants were set out June 13th and 14th. Each plat con- 

 tained five rows three feet apart with plants eighteen inches from 

 each other in the row. Dry weather and the work of the cutworm 

 necessitated a resetting of plants in many instances. At the time of 

 the first hoeing, June 28th, the crop looked well as far as color was 

 concerned, but suffered much subsequently from dry weather in July 

 and August and also from two severe wind storms during the latter 

 month. 



The general appearance of the field at the close of the season how- 

 ever compared well with other tobacco fields in the vicinity. The 

 tobacco was harvested September 11th and 12th. It cured well with 

 a light color. 



NUMBER OF PLANTS HARVESTED. 



Plat 1 , 

 Plat 2, 

 Plat 3, 

 Plat 4, 

 Plat 5, 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CROP 1893. 



Rank of Plats. 



Texture, color, vein. Plats 4, 2, 8, 1, 3, 9, 7, 6, 10, 5. 

 Weight of tobacco, Plats 7, 4, 2, 10, 3, 8, 1, G, 9, 5. 

 Percentage of wrappers. Plats 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 10, 8, 9, 6. 



