The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
IRELAND'S POTATOES
FIND MARKET HERE
New Impetus Given Produc-
ton by Demand for Amer
ican Consumption.
REVIVAL IN TOBACCO
Planters of Emerald Isle Meet
With Gratifying Success
in Cultivation.
REVIVAL IN TOBACCO
BY AUSTIN F. MAGUIRE.

SPepai Ndole 10 The Tribune
! DUBLIN, April l3.-Irish pota;oe,
are being shipped to America bv tb,
thousands of barrels. Never before in
the history of this country has there
peen such a demand for Irish nroJuca
from the United States. II i Ieons
uPs new impetus viii be given IN tbe
INDUSTRY and ambition of the irish
farmer. '"e 'fiSn
reports coming back from Amar;c,
say that the potatoes from ireland are
| RNlng foll satisfaction in the h;g
nosels and restaurants and renewal
| cable oS mail ana
In 1879, when rack renting landIord.
Ism was at its height. and its worst
.he ship Constellation of the American
navy was sent TO Ireland loaded viii
| provisions for the starving peonle ~
@ rne west whom the rapacious lapdlords
%ere casting out on the roadside TO
Ioday ships of commerce arc yo;us
from Ireland to America freiebteS
Win produce OF Irish soil, which at last
- SLOWLY but surely coming into lie
own IN the markets of the world
Tobacco Promising Industry.
Not many years viii have elansed
oe5ore ireland Will have another stanle
ffnuuStry besides agriculture. In no
"eL az" than flVe counties experiments
fbc e c,,It neIing made, and with success, in
Tue cultivation of tobacco.
NJ some years ago a farmer in Countv
Meath whose, IDEAS and ambitions
were above the average Of hi. clasn
began to grow tobacco. His li,tls
paintings proved successful and norv
NE IS going into the cultivation of The
was @ foi,oa Gd iarger scale. His example
@a ,"i'o"eu by other go-ahead farm.
eTs .nd now not only in Meath hut
aiso IN Louth, Kilkenny, Wexford Tin
perarf and Limerick. patches of 1and
are peing devoted TO the culti-,tiom
o1 tobacco. 'A "''o"
me total area under such cuIt,va.
eion Is lzo0 acres. Seventy. acres
oi tnese are for pipe tobacco. twenty.
Tor cigars ''od0co
II was only recently that people be.
Enn 20 1lnd out that at one time 10.
pacSo was grown extensively in Jrn
i'u, iahu, OUT the IRON heel of James 7 and
try. '"e indus
The pioneer in the revival of 70.
Pacco cultivation in Ireland is Colonel
Everard of Rendlestowu in the CONN.,,
OF Meath 'Ne 'ouhly
Revival Meets Difficulties.
Like most other new ideas. the re.
yival has had the usual run Of nroin.
uiee TO overcome and usual hardshins
30 undergo. Tobacco is very sensif;ve
70 S1matic and soil conditions. Col,
,ueL bVerard s chief difficulty at The
'eaIt was plant breeding. After much
apor be succeeded in obtaining from
.wo varieties cross which was found
y yleld certain desirable virtues ami
ms gives promise of it's taking kindly
% poth sol! and climate. Should il
rove yleidful, Ireland may become
ne nursery OF natural industry,
vhleh IS now supposed to be wholly
Unidaeo 10 such countries as Cuba and
I1nmatra, the Philippine islands and
ne r., United States, China and Brazil
therc IS now an Irish tobacco crow
rs association. Its members are hone
u OF being able to see before long at
east 1000 acres devoted in Ireland to
he cultivation of tobacco.
Colonel Everard saws: NEARLY
very kind of tobacco can be crown srroM3
Ireland. The tobacco manufacturers
ave only 70 tell us what they can
md a use for and We can produce il. -
An ldea OF tho possibilities of to.
aeeo cultivation in Ireland Us an. In.
reaser OF the national wealth may be
ained from the fact that one acre
reduced 1900 pounds of tobacco two
ears ago
Among the interesting experiments
one to determine the possibilities OF
rowing tobacco especially for pico-
ne, which is in constantly increasing
'mand as an insecticide
Such incidents as the shipment from
Gland of great quantities of pota.
es and of the possibilities of to-
eco culture, bring again TO the front
o handicap under which Ireland stag
RS commercially. because of her com.
lcatcd transportation system, or
ther, want of system.
When Ireland has her own parlia-
mt AID is able to- straighten out
ose matters for herself she will
Ike short work of the maze of inde.
ndent railroads which burden the
untrv. each with its own schedule
d directory and all leading to con.
sion and to trade strangling condi.
MS Of the most despairing kind
A roval commission reported recently
1t there Is but ono comrletc euro
the tangled state of affairs-tho
of the railroads. And
Vsical conditions in Ireland are IA
able 80 the change.
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ci3l Cable 10 The Tribune