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CONTENTS. 



sampling, 



Description of packers' preparations for market, 



Functions of the packer, . 

 Sorting and tying. 

 Sweating, .... 



Sampling, .... 



Amount of tobacco assorted, 



Sorting shops, ..... 

 Cost of sorting, tying, storing, packing, sweating and 



Summary, ..... 



Storage, ...... 



Cost of storage, .... 



Transportation, ..... 

 Grades, standards and principal varieties. 

 Prices, ....... 



Supply and demand, 



Connecticut valley tobacco in the market. 



Methods of sale, .... 



Defects of the contract method of sale, 



Collusion among buyers, . 



Prices to farmers, .... 



Wholesale prices of Connecticut valley wrappers and binders. 



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



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



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



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



Recommendations, ......... 



Bibliography, .......... 



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

 corporated, .......... 



Appendix II. — Bj'-laws of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Growers, 

 corporated, .......... 



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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, . . 188- 



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., .......... 158 



3. Shade-grown tobacco acreage in the Connecticut valley, 1900-18, . . 160 



4. 125 acres of tobacco under cloth, South Deerfield, Mass., . . . 160 



5. Average yield of tobacco per acre in Massachusetts, 1900-18, . . 167 



6. Tenancy in the Connecticut valley, 1880-1917 173 



7. One method of hauling tobacco from field to curing shed, . . . 181 



8. Cutting tobacco, .......... 182; 



