Welsh Nicotine
N_ expatriate Rhodesian, Harry Sutherns, transplanted a Rhodesian crop to Britain and started to grow that latter-day elixir, tobacco, on a farm in Wales. Donald Green gave a progrese report of this experiment in his monthly newsletter "Calling Rhodesia" in the BBC Overseas Service, saying "Suthserns said he sowed about half a _ saltspoonful of seed and enough has come up in the seed-bed to plant out the whole of Wales. He doesn’t anticipate any trouble in actually growing it. His first headache will be curing it in the hot tank room next to his bathroom, and if that is successful, almost certainly his next headache will come. when he smokes the stuff." But, as Green said rather ruefully, with cigarettes at over twopence each here one had to do ‘something.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 19
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132Welsh Nicotine New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 19
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