CONNECTICUT VALLEY CIGAR LEAF TOBACCO. 



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the field; others attribute it to bad weather, hail, wind storms, frost, 

 etc. Tobacco depends almost entirely upon a sufficient amount of rain 

 and warm weather. The seasons of the last few years have not been 

 favorable to a good growth of tobacco. Actually, the low yield of 1915 

 is the great cause of the low average. 



Figure 5 presents in graphic form the history of the average j^ield in 

 Massachusetts from 1900 to 1918. Of the Connecticut valley sun-grown 

 crop in 1917 it is estimated that onlj^ 60 per cent was not injured by hail, 

 wind or frost, while the loss in shade-grown tobacco by hail was perhaps 

 not over 3 per cent. 



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



The production per acre and the total farm value per acre for the chief 

 tobacco-producing states are given in the following table. It is e\adent 

 that the largest per acre fields in the United States are still reported from 

 the Connecticut valley tobacco fields. 



