A Calamity Made Up by Tobacco

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1864

A Calamity Made Up by Tobacco

CAN one calamity be made up by another still greater? Such would seem to be the idea conveyed by the following paragraph, which is going the rounds:

"Farmers in Hampshire county, Mass., say that although the drouth has materially lessened the yield of corn, the loss will be more than made up in the tobacco crop, which promises a more abundant yield than for many previous years."

Talk about making up a loss of corn by an extra yield of tobacco! Of course. No matter about bread, if we can have an extra yield of poison!