204 MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 193. 



tobacco crop in competing areas may be large, while the Connecticuii valley 

 crop is small. Partly, too, it may be due to imports, but no doubt it is also 

 in part attributable to the faulty method of sale. 



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



Prices of Connecticut valley tobacco have increased, however, since 1916, 

 reaching the maximum in July, 1918, with an increase of 80 per cent over 

 1916. Tl'is increase was due to the great demand for low grades of leaf 

 tobacco, and the decrease of the better grades through injury by storm 

 and frost. The demand for low grades steadily raised the minimum price 



