CONTENTS. 



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9. Stringing tobacco, .......... 182 



10. Hauling to market. Unloading bundles at one of the sorting shops, . 184 



1 1 . A typical shop for sorting sun-grcwn tobacco, ..... 185 



12. A shade-grown sorting shop, ........ 186 



13. Tobacco sample tag, ......... 187 



14. Showing the roof of a sorting shop for shade-grown tobacco, . . . 189 



15. Per capita consumption of cigars and other forms of manufactured 



tobacco in the United States, 1870-1917, 197 



16. Relation between population, pounds of tobacco produced, number of 



cigars manufactured, and pounds of manufactured leaf tobacco in the 



United States, 1872-1917, 198 



17. A tobacco grower's contract, ........ 201 



18. Production and farm prices of New England tobacco, 1900-18, . . 204 



19. Sun-grown tobacco. Analysis of spread between grower and manufacturer 



on case of 350 povmds, 1917 212 



LIST OF TABLES. 



1. Production of tobacco in the United States by localities, 1849 and 1859, . 144 



2. Increase since 1864 in the number of cigars manufactured in the United 



States, 145 



3. Acreage, production and value of cigar leaf tobacco since 1859, . . 146 



4. Tobacco production in the United States, by census years, 1839-1909, . 146 



5. Production of tobacco in the United States by states, in selected years, . 147 



6. Production of cigar leaf tobacco in the United States, 1912-18, . . 149 



7. Production of tobacco in the Connecticut valley, 1839-1918, by selected 



years, ............ 149 



8. Production of tobacco in Massachusetts by decades, ... . . 150 



9. Production of tobacco in Connecticut from 1859 by selected years, . 151 



10. Tobacco growers and acreage in Massachusetts in 1916, . . . 152 



11. Distribution of acreage of tobacco according to counties and towns in 



Massachusetts, .......... 155 



12. Varieties, location and types of tobacco in the cigar leaf districts, . . 156 



13. Production of shade-grown tobacco in the Connecticut valley, 1900-18, . 161 



14. Acreage of shade-grown tobacco in the Connecticut valley, 1915-18, . 161 



15. Average acreage per farm and per grower, 1915-18, .... 164 



16. Farms classified by acreage of shade-grown tobacco, 1915-18, . . 164 



17. Yields per acre, Massachusetts and Connecticut, 1880-1918, . .. . 166 



18. Production and farm value per acre, in 1917, of the principal tobacco 



states, ............ 168 



19. Cost of producing an acre of shade-grown tobacco, .... 169 



20. Cost to the landowner of producing an acre of sun tobacco, . . . 170 



21. Cost to a tenant of producing an acre of sun tobacco, .... 171 



22. Sales of tobacco from Massachusetts and Connecticut to manufacturers 



and dealers, June, 1915, to March, 1916, by quarters, . . . 177 

 22(a). Sales of unstemmed leaf tobacco by farmers in the Connecticut valley, 



1915-19, by quarters, 178_ 



23. Total consumption, production and imports of tobacco for specified 



countries before the war, . . . . . . . .179 



24. Cigar leaf tobacco held by manufacturers and dealers Oct. 1, 1915, and 



1916, and Jan. 1, 1917, and 1918, United States and New England, . 184 



25. Temperature of bulked tobacco, ....... 186 



26. Tobacco sorting shops in Massachusetts, 1917-18, .... 188 



27. Sizes and costs of cases for shade-grown tobacco, ..... 189 



