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Show I fobasao Orowlat: la Ireland. Blr Walter lUlelgb did not smoke that pipe of his beneath the yw tree at Youghal to no purpose. To th proud distinction of havlsg provided a European home for th potato Ireland Ire-land has now added that ot being tha first to product marketable tobacco. Thla Is due to the perseverance of Horace Hor-ace Plunkett and his Irish agricultural organisation society, the forerunner ot the government department of whleii be la now tho guiding spirit. Btrong, ' coarse tobacco, containing an abnor- D9 mat amount of molatura aft6i alco- Kft tine, has been grown In lieath at at iSM cost of 8 cents a pounAfand will soil Wgj at 32 cents. At thIa-'raU tho grasleral JM of Meath wlJUrmrit profitable to ret Hjj place thelfrandlng Iron with tha HJ spade, 5leath plug and OldcasUe X Blrdsee will be favorite brands wltU HB tho jitrloU before long. Pall Mali HJ llaiette. |