THE FARMER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12537, 2 January 1934, Page 7

THE FARMER.

Conditions in the primary industries of the Dominion during 1933 were reviewed by the Director-Gen-eral of Agriculture, Dr. C. J. Reakes. From a climatic point of view, lie said, the year had been in favour of primary producers. The early part of the year was conducive to heavy* grain yields, and conditions were such that the 1932-33 dairying season was sustained into the late autumn. The spring oi the present season opened remarkably well, but the dry weather experienced in the past two months threatened to affect the season’s output of butterfat and food crops for dairy cows in some districts.

“Smokers and smoking,” is the title of ail interesting article in a Melbourne weekly. The writer cites the case of the head of a great commercial house who when making an appointment to his staff invariably prefers to engage a smoker. A lover of the weed himself he says his long experience as an employer satisfies him that smokers are usually broader in their views, saner in. their outlook than non-smokers, and “pull together” better, being more contented when at work. Other employers will doubtless endorse that, for it happens to be< true, as a rule. But very much depends upon the tobacco. Constant use of the wrong “baccy” so far from promoting harmony and contentment may have the opposite effect, and excess of nicotine' in the weed will assuredly do it. Fortunately for New Zealanders they have in the four leading brands, Riverhead Gold, Cavendish. Navv Out No. 3 (Bulldog), and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), tobacco not only" of superlative quality but so comparatively free from nicotine (owing to being toasted), that they are “safe as houses” to smoko to any extent.