IV CONTENTS. 



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Description of packers' preparations for market, ..... 184 



Functions of the packer, ......... 184 



Sorting and tying, ......... 185 



Sweating, . . . . . . . . . . 185 



Sampling, .......... 187 



Amount of tobacco assorted, ........ 187 



Sorting shops, ........... 188 



Cost of sorting, tying, storing, packing, sweating and sampling, . . . 189 



Summary, ........... 190 



Storage 191 



Cost of storage, .......... 192 



Transportation, ........... 193 



Grades, standards and principal varieties, ...... 195 



Prices, 196 



Supply and demand, ......... 196 



Connecticut valley tobacco in the market, . . . . . .199 



Methods of sale, .......... 199 



Defects of the contract method of sale, ...... 200 



Collusion among buyers, ......... 202 



Prices to farmers, .......... 203 



Wholesale prices of Connecticut valley wrappers and binders, . . 208 



Sun-grown tobacco: Analysis of "spread," grower to manufacturer, . 210 

 Farmers' prices for shade-grown tobacco, . . . . . .212 



Wholesale prices for shade-grown tobacco, ...... 213 



Co-operation in marketing tobacco, . . . . . . . .213 



Recommendations, . . . . . . . . . .215 



Bibliography, 216 



Appendix I. — By-laws of the Hampshire County Tobacco Growers, In- 

 corporated, ........... 219 



Appendix II. — By-laws of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Growers, In- 

 corporated, 227 



LIST OF MAPS. 



1. Tobacco. United States Census, 1910. Represented by dots proportion- 



ate in size to acreage by counties, ....... 148 



2. Production of tobacco in the Connecticut valley. 1910 census, . . 153 



3. Production of tobacco in the United States in 1917, .... 157 



4. Connecticut valley tobacco. Shipments to the Internal Revenue collec- 



tion districts in the United States, March 31, 1915, to April 1, 1916, . 176 



5. Location of tobacco sorting shops in Massachusetts, 1917-18, . . 18& 



LIST OF FIGURES. 



1. Distribution of acreage in Massachusetts in 1916, .... 154 



2. A part of the Connecticut valley as seen from Mount Sugarloaf, South 



Deerfield, Mass., ........ 



3. Shade-grown tobacco acreage in the Connecticut valley, 1900-18, 



4. 125 acres of tobacco under cloth. South Deerfield, Mass., 



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



6. Tenancy in the Connecticut valley, 1880-1917, . 



7. One method of hauling tobacco from field to curing shed, 



8. Cutting tobacco, ........ 



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