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At the Alabama State Station 1 in 1893, cigar varieties on upland 



and bottom sandy soils ranged in yield from 439.4 to 1,505.4 pound-, 

 and plug tobaccos from 575.4 to 1,744:6 pounds of cured leaf per acre. 



The North Carolina Station' reports yields of cured leaf ranging 

 from 665.5 to 1,542.7 pounds per acre. ■ 



Long-leaf Gooch tobacco, grown in connection with fertilizer tests 

 at the Virginia Station in 1890, 3 yielded 762 pound- of cured tobacco 

 on the check plat and 1,035 pounds per acre on the most productive 

 fertilized plat. 



Plat experiments with fertilizers for tobacco at the Maryland Sta- 

 tion 4 in 1892 resulted in yields of cured tobacco per acre varying from 

 tlrio on the unfertilized to 820 pounds per acre on the fertilized plats. 



At the Kentucky Station"' in 1895 White Burley yielded from 555 to 

 1,499 pounds of cured leaf per acre, and in 1896 6 the yields of experi- 

 mental plats varied from 500 to 1,295 pounds of cured leaf per acre. 



In experiments carried on by the Massachusetts Hatch Station. 7 at 

 Hatfield, Agawani. and Westfield, Mass., for three successive years, 

 the yields of cured leaf varied from 1,379 to 1,648 pounds per acre. 

 The percentage of wrapper leaf in these crops ranged from 21.2 to 

 69.6 per cent. 



In connection with the fertilizer experiments carried on for live 

 years in succession by the Connecticut State Station." the yield for all 

 plats for the entire period averaged 1,685 pounds of assorted leaf per 

 acre. The average yields for the different years ranged from 1.569 to 

 1,876 pounds. The heaviest yield obtained from any one plat was at 

 the rate of 2,280 pounds per acre. The average yield of wrappers for 

 the live years was 60.7 per cent of the total yield, with a range from 

 -17. '1 to 66.2 per cent for the different seasons. On some plats as high 

 a- 7s per cent of the product was suitable for wrapper-. 



Estimated yields, based on the results obtained on experimental 

 plat- at the Wisconsin Station in 1893 and 1894, 9 varied from 1,484 to 

 3,841.5 pounds of cured leaf per acre. 



On small experimental plats at the Central Experimental Farm. 

 Ottawa. Canada. 1 " the rate of yield has been estimated in different 

 seasons from about 1,500 to 2,500 pounds of cured leaf per acre. 



The question of the actual yield of tobacco is an important con- 

 sideration under certain circumstances, but is a matter of little interest 

 in other cases. In the cigar districts, particularly, the influence of 

 quality on the price is so great that the a<\u.il-yield is hardly a matter 

 for consideration. At the same time other factors enter in. as the price 



1 Alabama state station Bui. No. 54. H Ibid. No. 66. 



- North Carolina Station Bui. No. 89. T Massachusetts Hatch station Bui. No. 47. 



'Virginia station Bui. No. 12. B Connecticut State Station Rpt., 1897. 



i Maryland station Bui. No. 26. 9 Wisconsin station Rpts., 1894 and 1895. 



5 Kentucky station Bui. No. 63. 1 " Canada Central Exptl. Farm Bui. No. 30. 



