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loam, locally known by the name of light, sandy plain. The Oelcl 

 is situated in the midst of a locality devoted largely to tobacco cul- 

 ture, but the field selected for our observations had never received any 

 fertilizing material, with the exception of fifty bushels of leached 

 ashes some ten years previous to 1894; for ten years past it had 

 been cropped with corn and rye, but never with tobacco. 



First Year (1S94). The mechanical preparation of the soil and 

 the kind of fertilizers used upon each |)lat, as well as the variety of 

 tobacco selected and the general management of the crop during the 

 season and after harvesting the tobacco, was materially the same as 

 in the case of the experiments carried on at Hatfield and Agawam. 

 The plats were laid out April 80, 1894 ; the fertilizers were harrowed 

 in by an Acme harrow May 8th, and the tobacco plants set out by a 

 machine June 6th. P2ach plat contained six rows, three and one- 

 fourth feet apart, with twenty inches space between plants in the 

 row. 



The cutworms were somewhat troublesome, particularly on Plats 

 8,9, 10. causing a resetting of many plants. Most of the plants 

 were topped July 23d. The crop on all plats was cut and housed 

 August 17th and 18th. All plats suffered somewhat from a serious 

 drought. 



Number of Plants Harvested Per Plat, 1894. 



Plat 1, mb. Plat 6, 673. 



Plat 2, r,72. Plat 7, G84. 



Plat 3, G7.S. Plat 8, 095. 



Plat 4, . G(;7. Plat 9, G40. 



Plata, 635. Plat 10, 672. 



Retort of Committee on Crop, 1894. 

 Rank of Plats. 

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

 Total weight of tobacco. Plats 8, 7, 4, 6, 3, 10, 2, 1, 9, 5. 

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



