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cult TROPICAL FRUITS
A FASCINATING CHAPTER IN THE
HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE.
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date-culture has now passed the experimental
THE E1C ALSO IS A COMMERCIAL CROP—Pi ST ACHE
OLIVE THRIVE IN THIS COUNTRY. NUTAND
THE
aTE l )alms have been sr0AV '
** & ' jug in this country for con¬
MU. 'Skor<*' 1) xJ O * ft fury, siderably by Government yet the more annoimcement than scientists a eeu
the other day that date
culture had practically passed the ex¬
perimental stage and might be expect¬
ed to develop into a. flourishing iudus
try. was probably a surprise to most
of those who read it. The American
grown dates at the St. Louis Fair last
summer were still very much of a
curiosity, though favorably commented
on by those who tasted them. It is our
national habit, on tlie discovery that
mi addition can be made to our list of
products, agricultural or manufactured,
to inquire, first of all, how much we
are now paying foreigners for the same
article. In this instance the custom
house statistics show that we are buy¬
ing nithei; more than twenty million
pounds of dates per year, and paying
for them above a third of a million dol¬
lars annually. Though we produced
so few ourselves that the census of
1900. which embraces nearly every
product under the sun, makes no men¬
tion of dates, a tariff duty of one-half
cent per pound is levied on them. But,
aside from the commercial possibilities
of the innovation, it furnishes a fas¬
cinating chapter in the history of agri
[culture.
Like the fig tree, the date was first
| planted in this country by the. Spanish
mission fathers of California. Re¬
newed efforts to introduce it were made
[soon jibe after the resembling Mexican War, when
region most the native
I homo of the tree was entered by Anier
[ieau [friars settlers. They, like the early
contented themselves with
[planting [some the seeds of imported dates,
twenty-five years ago the first
[importations [made. of rooted suckers were
The Department of Agricul-
11ure [but secured some as far back as 1889,
they met with various misfortunes
[from Ioral flood, cold weather and the gen
accidents of travel, and few of
[them [years came 1o anything. Up to five
[most ago, in short, tiie two lessons
thoroughly learned by those in
[terested [not in date growing were that
more than one in eight of the palms
[raised [and marketable from seed would produce soft
dates, and that the
[growth ■proportions of a tree to the most luxuriant
was no guarantee that it
[would ever produce any dates at all.
Ever since 1899 the Department of
[Agriculture has received, year by year,
n succession of specimens of new vari¬
eties. In 1900 more than 400 offshoots,
including twenty-seven varieties, were
Ii■'oin shipped by Mr. Walter T. Swingle
Algiers, and he contributed to the
‘ Agricultural Year Book” of that
year
au elaborate paper on date culture.
Tlie next year a consignment was re¬
ceived from Egypt. By 1902 the
h r -luml established by the Department
pintly Arizona with included the State eleven University with of
NO acres,
[seedlings. imported trees and eighty native
A year ago another date
[garden rado des'Tt, was and established specimens in the forty- Colo¬
of
|seven Ituiued, additional partly varieties were ob
from the Algerian Sa¬
hara region, and partly from the oasis
N M‘Z:tb. Last autumn the Dcpart
[meut lie date dispatched regions of another Southern scientist Tunis and to
Eastern Algeria, where, in the Oued
[S°uf Hi 1 ? narrow country, sheltered the date valleys trees between grow in
[enormous [hills exist in sand dunes. parts of Similar California, sand
some
■id it is already proposed to plant date
"res in tlie protected hollows. Private
[ growers are taking up date planting
‘a steadily increasing numbers.
^ I s said, and it is very easy for tlie
'•'ei'yiJay consumer to believe, that the
of the African dates do not come
" America, but are snapped up by the
' ll}ers ft 'om Italy and France. Thus
‘he hope is held out that the home
►tow u date will be actually superior
quality and flavor to the present ini-
1" - • atioii.s. The date palm is affected
but little by alkaline soils, but de¬
mands the most intense heat and sun
Lae, with abundant water at its roots.
,uj( „
; r irrigation, these are exactly the
;" ns he obtained in some of
t .;® ari(1 uialy belts f tho of tlie Southwest. Thus
tin 0 date has its part in
eoaqn st which scientitie agricul-
11 >' making of lands consid
once
haps, worthless. Next is to come, per
th pistaehe nut, of whose life
i l s . * 10 Kuroau
h k Plant Industry
I' V . , ‘ 'niploted ’bevies an extensive study.
o:iiv' of this nut are the
s" ' T' ! :I ns * s of ' v!licl lar i will grow to the
\ " e trees in the desert
of »
Tlie 1! >ost important of tlie exotic
fr «its ha 'e been
that it so long in this country
s li0 t commonly realized liow
., . Us '
ren the time since they be
Lled 0Uln,orcial cr °P s - The fig, nl
been t !n ;in °f''or connection, hart
the 1 " a GundantIy in most of
8V, ut es and eaten
for scores ns a fresh fruit
duc-ti of years, but until the intvo
on oE ,ho remarkable fig insect
m 1!)00
a poiinV ' Vas impossible to produce
m ar j- ' tlja t could compete in the
G famed Smyrna vari
ety. ° liv
<s coun; v ' , arly iu . e " as brought to this
turj- ' the seventeenth ecu
supposed to be nearly
Ci life are now Standing in
Wry ^vt. according to the Ids
of th industry given the
in
United States census report, olive oil
was not made in that State until 1872.
Hie citrus fruit industry is practically
it It “ha" lias hardly n 1 °^, the yet hlSt recovered twent y-Ave from years,
set-back due to the
the severe frosts of the
ear y nineties. The wild descendants
of the trees planted in Florida in the
sixteenth century by Menendez are
now useful only _
as stocks on which to
gratt the sweet orange and tangerine.
Everyone of the tropical or sub-trop
ieal varieties here mentioned first
brought was
to America by Spaniards, some
by explorers, some by priests. Some
wore started without an understand¬
ing of their needs, while others degen¬
erated. But in the last quarter of the
mnteeutli century and the first years
ot the twentieth scientific agriculture
has brought each one of them to
mously increased enor¬
tury usefulness. A cen¬
or two of the rule of thumb pro¬
duced little or nothing. The fruit was
not gathered until the scientist had
begun to “peep and botanize” about
tlie valueless plantings.—New York
Post.
WAX-FARMING IN CHINA.
A Little Known Industry Which Has
a
Picturesque Side.
Une of the occupations of China
5vhich is little known to the outside
world is wax-farming. A tinv insect
is Ghinosl cultivated With with great <.,.pnt skill ci. ni by the + i
Chinese of of a certain district, because
of tile fine white wax which it pro
duces. Tlie Scientific American de
scribes This the work of those wax-farmers, j
little insect, which is hardly !
yet known to Western science has
tha? manv J npcnlinritie-j thi snl nf °V wi.,vi, 1 “ i
l-.t ioi the successful ; f , production of j
wax two stages of its life must he :
passed in very different regions. The
earlier stage, in which the females de- ;
velop until almost ready to deposit !
their eggs, is in the Chien Chang Yal- i
lev, in the western part ■“ of China
5000 »r;T" feet, on s ■ which r? the "* insect “ passes
that stage of its existence. In May '
it is time to remove the colonies of
wax-makers to the lower altitude of |
Szechwan Province, where is found
another tree, feeding upon which the
insect makes its wax.
This removal is one of the most
,
picturesque features of tlie industry,
Thousands of porters are employed in
it. The colonies of insects removed
from the trees are wrapped in leaves
of the wood-oil tree. Packed carefully I
in baskets, they are slung from the
shoulders of the porters, who must |
bear them from 200 to 400 miles. The
way lies over the rocky paths and
heights of the Szechwan Mountains,
through several cities, and ends at the
farms where tlie masters of the bear
ers await them. All the journey must j
bo made at night, as the sun’s heat
would dev pi nr ’ i t’no inkpots .... too fast i
At that time of the year * it IS the CUS- j
tom of ihe cities ... a.ong , the ........ ..a.t to leave __
their gates open all uiglit in order that
the progress of tlie bearers may not bo
interrupted. W ith the baskets sus
pended from their'‘shoulders, the per
ters run in weird procession at their
top speed from dark till daylight. Clad
almost invariably in rain-proof straw,
thev carry picturesque lanterns Which
swing as they run. throwing the fan
tastle shadows of their bodies all
.
At daybreak the men find some dense
shade for their burdens, prepare then
meals and go to sleeu- At nightfall
they are under way again.
At the farms where the wax is to
1, e formed the leaves containing in
sects are tied to the limbs of trees,
where the heat of the sun develops
them. Crawling out, the males pro¬
ceed to form cocooons, and these are
the source of the wax. In a short time
the entire trees are covered with the
shining white, so that, but lor the heat,
one would believe they were hidden in
frost. This white covering is some
times a quarter of an inch thick over
most of a tree. It is scraped off and
refined, and from it are made candles
for the household, objects for the tem¬
ples, and many other things, and an an¬
nual tribute of the best quality is sent
to the Empress at Pekin.
Insurance on Tltcir Finger*.
In the way of special insurance r 0 ’'
eies contingent on all sorts of accidents
Paderewski spends about 94000 an
nually, and besides against this he injury carries to Ins a j
$50,000 policy any j
hands that his would performances lessen the or perma- tutme J j
value of Although
neatly damage his fingers.
he lias protected his whole body pretty
well by these policies he seems to have
overlooked the back of his neck, and it
is doubtful if he will get anything ,
from the insurance companies on ac- his j
count of the illness that brought j
tour to such a sudden end.
Kubelik and Hofmann are two other
virtuosi who indulge heavily in these
special premiums, Kubelik spending
$1590 a year against accidents to his
bow hand and Hofmann has gone to
the extent of insuring each finger and
thumb on lioth his hands. If Kobe
lik’s right hand or arm were perma
nently disabled he would collect $-50,000
from the London accident insurance
companies.—New York Press.
The pay of the London police force
amounts to over $7,000,000 a year.
Count Cassini, the Russian Ambassador,
(vears a single eyeglass.
FTTSpermanfriHv cured. No fits
ness offer fl rs t day's use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Iir. KerveTtestorer.f R. H. 2trial bottleanrt treatise
Klixe. Ltd.,031 Arch St.. Thila.. Pa.
The German Government operates
telephone stations.
One she s-mller after uslnx Allen’s Foot
> a powder. Tt makes ti^ht or new shoei
easy. Cures sivollen, hot, sweating, aching
fo«t. ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At
all druggists an i shoe stores. 25c. Don’t ac¬
cent anv substitute. Trial package Free by
mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted. Leltoy, N.Y.
In 1870 England had 8121 schools and
135 prisons.
Mrs.U,insiow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, tion,allays soften the gums,reduces inflamma¬
pain,oureswind colic, 25c.a bottle.
Colorado is to have another forest re
serve cf 1,014.926 acres.
l’iso s Cure is the best medicine we ever used
lor all affections of throat and lungs.—5 Vm.
O. Endsi-ey, Vanburen, lnd., Feb.' 10, 1900.
J he cost of the worldis wars since the
Crimean war has been $12,263,000,000.
Itch cured in 30 ininut is by IVoolford’s
Sanitary druggiiits, Lotion. Never Fails. Sold by all
by Dr. $1. Alail orders promptly tilled
E. Detehon. Crawfordsville, lnd.
The horse supply of the world is about
80,000,000 animals.
Cures Eczema, Itching Humors.
Botanic Especially for o’.d, chronic cases take
Blood Balm. It gives a healthy
blood supply to the affected parts, heals all
tlie sores, eruption scabs, scales; stops the
awful itching and burning of eczema, swell¬
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gists $1 per large bottle, 3 bottles $2.50, 6
bottles 15.00, express prepaid. Sample free
and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., At¬
lanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medi¬
cal advice sent in sealed letter.
crossings There are in the neariy United £000 States. railway grade
Profits of tlie Packer*.
There has been a great ueal of dis
n PP° in tment because the Garfield re
P lng 01 ' t lndu s ^°' ® v try s that on '. v the amount profits to of about the pack- two.
per ce!lE 011 1)0 volume of business
transacted. There is no doubt, how
ever, that the report is correct,
The census reports compiled by the
Government in 1900. before tlie agita
tion regarding the “beef trust” began,
1 ! u ’ ow considerable light on this qnes
!, io11 ' It.appears from the census that
P ackln S industry is conducted on a
-mailer margin of gross profit than any
other industry in America. The gross
margin of profit of S71 flour and grist
mills in Illinois, in the census year,
was nearly seven per cent, on the" vol
tllue of business. The gross margin of
lift - v ~ oue wholesale slaughtering and
meat Packing establishments in Illinois
■as*. v.
volume of business,
The millers have not been accused
of being in a “trust,” and combinn
turns would seem impossible in a busi¬
ness where there are several thousand
mills in the United States compering
actively for the flour trade, hut it ap¬
pears that the gross profits of the mill
ers are larger than the gross profits of
the packers. It may turn out that the
agitation regarding the packing indus
try will show the same result as the
devil found in shearing the pig: “All
6< l liea ^ an( h no wool.
Among the beggar children ot
southern Italy there is rarely one
who looks ill fed.
an Kx-Chief Justice’s Opinlo n .
Judge O. E. Lochrane, of Georgia, in a
letter to Dr. Biggers, states that he never
suffers himself to be without a bottle of Dr.
Diggers’ ail Huckleberry Cordial for the rebel
of bowel troubles,.Dysentery,Diarrhoea,
etc -
Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle.
_ __ _
The _ French government intends t(
aake experiments in Us Congo col
on y j n cultivation of a wild coffef
^ ree discovered by the explorer, M
chevalier
UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT
Caused by Sore* on Neck-Merrilc* Itc .
_ AaoUl cr t u.e by cuticura.
“For two years my neck was covered
S', fell ouTkavhng^ualihfiy
^ a ’,| S pot, and the soreness, inflammaiion
an(i Merciless itching made me wild,
Friends advised Cuticura Soap and Omt
ment. and after a few applications the tor
ment subsided, to my great joy. The sores
soon disappeared, and my hair grew again,
as thick and healthy as ever. I shall ai
wavs recommend Cuticura. (Signed) H.
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p 0S tei--Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
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ryp ce nts per box.
Thg ciwn forests of Russia comprise
acres belonging _ to the Czar,
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Conviction Follows Trial soften the thickened cuti¬
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When buying loose coffee anything happens ment itching, to instantly allay
to have in his bin, how do or you know your what grocer you are irritation, ana
getting ? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, inflammation and soothe
could speak be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to and heal; and CUTI¬
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■ Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of
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Lion Coffee, Is often A Single sufficient Set, costing to cure but the One most Doflat* tortur¬
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