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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 12, 23 March 1905, Page 2

With a little encouragement in the shape of reduced excise duty (£ays a n English paper, whose fiscal policy is freetrade), the cultivation of tobacco in Ireland could be carried on with great advantage on a large scale. That has now been clearly established. The series of experiments carried out duritig the last siix years 1 ha\e proved tiiat in at least sixteen counties tobacco can be successfully cultivated. The growing of the leaf has been tried on a commercial scale in the County Meath, where twenty acres were devoteld to the crop, the barn and curing operations Waving been erected by the Department of Agriculture. The results are regarded as most satisfactory. In the opinion of Irish manufacturers, for coljr, texture, body ana size, the home-grown product compares favourably with tobacco of the same type imported from America.