Photos: Growing Connecticut Shadeleaf Tobacco in 1910

(National Cigar History Museum) Photos were taken on the farm of the Connecticut Tobacco Corp. in the town of Tariffville. The farm was managed by Marcus L. Floyd, an important scholar-author of “Tobacco” for the 1890 Census Publication and a pioneer developer of Connecticut Shade Leaf. The farm depicted is run in a scientific manner along the lines urged by successful Havana-under-cheesecloth pioneer J.B. Stewart. Continued