188 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. 



Sorting Shops. 

 Map 5 shows the location of these sorting shops in Massachusetts. 

 During the sorting season of 1917-18 there were 46 tobacco sorting and 

 packing shops employing 2,832 laborers, an average of 62 laborers per 

 shop. Twenty of these local sorting shops, nearly one-half, are located 

 in Hatfield, including North Hatfield and Bradstreet. 



LOCATrOH OF TOBACCO SORTING SHOPS 

 IK MASSACHUSETTS. 1917-18 



Map 5. 



Table 26. — Tobacco Sorting Shops in Massachusetts, 1917-18. 



Location. 



Laborers 

 employed. 



Hatfield, . 

 Had ley, 



South Deerfield, 

 Sunderland, 

 Chicopee, . 

 Westfield, . 

 Southwick, . 

 Feeding Hills, 

 Springfield, 

 Agawam, 

 Easthampton, 

 Northampton, 

 Whately, . 



I One closed 1916-17. 



2 Labor transferred to Springfield. 



