If) TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



cost and the receipts of corn-gi'owing with those 

 of tobacco-growing, and the more minutely ho 

 considers the subject the more convinced will he 

 be, that, whereas by the former he has of late 

 years been a loser, by the latter he will be a 

 considerable gainer. Let the economist take the 

 same matter into consideration, and he will find 

 that at the. pres.ent moment thousands of land- 

 owners and farmers are unable to give employ- 

 ment even dtiring harvest^ time, — our one-sided 

 system of unrecipi-ocated free imports is prac- 

 tically doing away with English harvests, and 

 the poor, who used to look forward to the 

 harvest as a time for making a " harvest " of 

 their own, earning a little extra money for the 

 extra expenses of winter, now, in thousands of 

 districts, find the summer their slackest time 

 (in Ireland it is almost universally a time of 

 greatest idleness and distress), and consequently, 

 that a new industry which gives employment all 

 the summer and autumn months will be an 

 unspeakable boon to the country. 



Many objections probably will be raised, on 

 the score that tobacco will interfere with the 

 more important production of food-crops — and 

 this we admit is an important consideration in 

 a country such as this, Avhcre our supplies could 

 easily be cut off — but, in the first place, is there 



