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Average Yield of Tobacco, ivith reference to Wrapper, per One 

 Thousand Plants. 



Hatfield. 



Year. 



1893 

 1894 

 1895 



Average yield 

 of tobacco. 



235.2 

 206.6 

 210.1 



Average yield oflAverage percent- 

 wrapper, jage of wrappers. 



97 

 105 

 109.3 



21 



41.2 

 50 7 

 52.1 



Variation in percent- 

 age of wrappers in 

 plats. 



21 -71 



38.8-64.4 

 36.8-63.1. 



Agawam. 



Westfield. 



Year. 



1894 

 1895 



1896 



Average I Average 

 yield of i yield of Percentage of Wrappers 

 tobacco, wrappers. 



171.3 

 228.7 

 199.3 



90.3 



49.6 



138.2 



5^.3 

 21.2 

 69.6 



Variation in percentage of 

 wrappers. 



41.6-62.10 

 6.4-34.40 



59-78.8 



4. Conclusions Drawn from the Third Year of Observation. 

 1. Good mechanical preparation of the soil and early application 

 and thus good diffusion of the fertilizers, not less than early planting 

 and a suitable number of plants to a given area, exert a decided influ- 

 ence on the quantity and the quality of the crop under other otherwise 

 corresponding conditions. Planting as early as the local climate 

 admits secures the benefit of the winter moisture. Too close plant- 

 ing interferes with a liberal or rapid development of the leaves, and 

 too large open spaces between the individual plants tends to favor 

 a coarser sti'ucture. Rows three feet and four inches apart with 

 plants twenty inches from each other in the row (Westfield) and 

 rows two feet and eight inches apart with plants two feet from each 

 other in the row (Hatfield) gave better returns than rows three feet 

 apart with plants eighteen inches from each other in the row (Aga- 

 wam. 



