TOBACCO IN 

 MASSACHUSETTS TODAY 



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he Valley tobaccos 



The agriculture of tobacco in the Bay State is insep- 

 arably linked with that of Connecticut. For over a hun- 

 dred years excellent cigar leaf has been produced in the 

 Massachusetts section of "Tobacco Valley." It is the 

 chief crop in some parts of Hampden, Hampshire and 

 Franklin, the producing counties. Only cigar-leaf types 

 are farmed: shade-grown and Connecticut Havana Seed. 



The first, long known as Connecticut Valley shade- 

 grown, provides wrapper leaf used for cigars. In 1970 



Havana Seed tolmcco ready for harvesting 

 Courtesy Conn-Mass Tobacco Cooperative 



