Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-08

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raises the beans seldom cures them. for that
requires good deal of caro- and special ut
tentop. There are about fifteen different
clusses, but they are sold by tho packers at
one round price. Four years ago the value
hero was 500 to so per thousand beans
now they are worth from $3.50 to $3.50 per
thousand such has been tho increase in the
consumption without proporlionale in
crease in tho cultivation. The people will
work only about one hundred days in tho
year, which provides them with all they
need, and us they will do no more thcrc is
very little increase In the production of any
thing. When tho beans arc assorted they
are tied up neatly in punches of fifly beans
each and packed In cases of tin holding from
two to three thousand. These tin cases are
lined with tin-foil and u ticket put on tho lid
giving the quality, size and quantity. Some
five or six of these tin cases arc put into a
neatly made cedar chest, which, sometimes
lined with zinc and Theoretically sealed so
MS to prevent moisture from getting TO the
vanilla in transporting, which would ruin IL.
These cedar cases arc then sewed In mats,
and these are covered with n coarse baggine
to avoid tho dangers of transportation on
mules In this manner all the Mexican va.
nilla goes to places of sale in Europe and
the United States, where it is worth from 80
to 800 per pound, The thousand beans weigh
ing from nine TO ten pounds.
| Formerly France was the great market
for vanilla, but the enterprise of some Of our
American merchants has diverted the trade
to New York, which is now the great depot
for vanilla. and parties from Europe come to
New York to buy.
Bananas and plnintains yield from 300 to
Sl25 per acre, and only require to be planted
once, for rs fast rs the mother stock gives
its punches of fruit and dies, dozen little
ones start, phnnlX-lko. from its roots They
are planted about feet apart, but after two
or three years there are II dozen stalks in
each hill, each bearing its bunch of fruit,
worth here 3 to ls cents bunch
| The pine apple yields oven more, for Il is
| planted IN rows, about three feet apar. each
way, thus producing about four thousan to
the acre, worth here about 60 cents each, OF
over 5000 per acre. Like the banana, it only
requires to be planted once in ten or twelve
years, grows from the root, and each plant
yields but one fruit. After the first year
bananas and pine apples must be thinned
out, or the fruit becomes inferior.
| Tobacco is destined to become one of tho
most valuable products of this part of Next
co, for the country presents the same advan-
tngos of climate, soil, &C., us the island OF
/ fNY,l,., L., Al
planters been extensively devoted 20 its cul-
tivation, and now there arc cigars made
here very little inferior to the best Havanas.
There is great want of experience in cur
ing, and when men of intelligence shall
come here. very handsome returns will be
made for their labor. Already from 1890 to
$500 are realized from an acre, and properly
attended to, more may be. In places where
1t is now cultivated, 1t can be had Mt very
low rate in its green state.
A large business has been established in
the expectation of honey from this place.
Formerly NIL the honey was thown away,
bees being kept for the wax only, of which
enormous quantities are used in all the cere-
monies of the church. Now that honey has
have three years ago, the number of hives
has been quintupuled. and is still increasing
The first shipment was Of 500 gallons. and
last year there were over 10000 gallons
| shipped from this place alone. As there is
no winter here, and there are flowers all the
year round, the bees swarm about four times
in the year. Formerly there was no care
fnE 10 of nd
each swarm is looked after, and new hives
are made, ms II valuable addition 10 tho fam
lily resources. Some of the Indians IN the
neighborhood have us many as five hundred
hives, from which the comb is taken about
every four months.
From the hills of Tuspan can be seen some
of the spurs OF the "Sierra Mudro,n which
suppose arc a continuation of the Rocky
Mountains of the United States. From the
Telegraph Hills can be seen the perpetual
SHOWS of the peak of Orizaba, some seventy
five miles distant. In the San Juan Noun
tains, distant about thirty miles from Tuspan,
and running parallel to the coast for some
forty miles, are to be found some of the rich
est deposits of gold, silver, quicksilver, cop
ptli W. lutb IIS 10 NC IOuuu III hleNlCO.
Owing to the Experimentation there have
been but few important explorations made,
and these have been by persons of small
capital. Lot immigration commence, and it
will not take long TO make small Califor-
nia in these mountains. Besides the San
Juan Mountains there are many others that
arc said to be very rich in silver and gold.
There are hundreds of petroleum springs
within diameter of fifty miles around Tus-
pan, but none of them are worked. While
kerosene, &C., can be brought from the
United States Mt such low rates it will not
pay TO work these springs. Some of the as
phaltum has been shipped to the United
States, but the result has not been very ia
yorablc. One company was formed to work
some rich springs near Patantla, and ma
chinery was brought out, but the kerosene
was very inferior, and could not compete
with that brought here. The failure,
think. was attributable to want of expert
ence, aud proper persons to superintend the
work. There are no wagon roads in this
part of Mexico. All transportation is on the
bacls of mules. Trains Of these animals
are constantly coming and going, bringing
in the products and taking back to the mite
rior all the goods used.
All Sorts of Items.
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