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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16661, 14 February 1925, Page 4

Nature generally makes compensations. Here’s a case in point. 1 The gum country in the North of Auckland is so poor in quality that the soil refuses to lend itself to agricultural operations. Yet this land, so unsuitable for the growing of ordinary crops, is splendidly adapted for tobacco culture, in proof of which you have only to sample the really fine tobaccos now being manufactured from North Auckland grown leaf. Those include “Riverliead Gold,” a mild aromatic with a distinctive flavor; “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium strength, and ‘ Out. Blag No. 10” (Bullshead), full flavor. All these tobaccos are toasted, a- process that has a good deal to do with their excellence, by the way. Another of their good points is 1 that they may be smoked with impunity. 'that is because" they contain but comparatively little nicotine. The success attending the culture of these tobaccos in what was formerly regarded us barren country is convincing growers that “there’s money in it.” The yield of leaf per acre represents £l5O and Often more.