THE FRAGRANT WEED.
BRITISH TOBACCO
CULTIVATION ENCOURAGED.
Th e cultivation of tobacco in Britain, now being encouraged by means of Government subsidies, was once sternly prohibited. Only after long agitation were farmers permitted to grow a small quantity for medicinal purposes. After some time f however, it ,, found that th e privilege was'beihg abused. Fo r years many farmers in Yorkshire, more especially, had been in the habit of cultivating tobacco on quite an extensive scale, and as they paid no duty on it whatever, they reaped enormous profits, just like the illicit whisky distillers in Ireland elsewhere. So in the end the excise authorities decided to take a hand in the game. Scores of farmers in the vales of Pickering arid York and elsewhere were publicly burned, and they themselves sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in addition to having to pay huge fines. This 'put an «hd to the illegal cultivation of tobacco as a commercial speculation.
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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1919, Page 1
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159THE FRAGRANT WEED. Northern Advocate, 28 August 1919, Page 1
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