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SUMMARY OF TOBACCO EXPP:RIMENTS. AGAWAM. 



Number of jjlants harvested and ueight of tobacco per 2)Iat. 



SUMMARY OF YIELD OF TOBACCO PER 1000 PLANTS AND OF PE1{ CENT 

 OF WRAPPER AGAWAM. 



IV. EXPERIMENTS ON THE FARM OF C. F. FOWLER, WESTFIELD, MASS., 



1894— 18'J5- 181)6. 

 The field engaged in the observations covers an area, four hund- 

 red and ten feet long and one hundred and one feet wide, which is 

 divided in the center by a strip of unoccupied space five feet wide 

 into two parts of equal size and sliape, 205 by 101 feet. Each of 

 these was subdivided into five plats ; these {)arallel plats were sepa- 

 rated from each other by an unoccupied space three feet in width. 

 The ten plats thus obtained were of a uniform size and shape, each 

 covering an area of three thousand six hundred and thirteen feet, 

 or approximately one-twelfth of an acre. The soil is a light, sandy 



