The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-20

disturbed sleep, and twelve slight ulcer
alton of the mucuous membrane Of the
mouth, which disappeared In ceasing
| from the use of tobacco for some days
The doctor treated them all for weak
ness, but with little effect until the
smoking was discontinued, when health
and strength was soon restored Now,
this is no "old wifes tale," as these
facts are given under the authority of
the British Medical Journal.
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Pine Apples - Where and How they
9I.H Grow
A N erroneous idea has prevailed that
| n the pine apple comes from Nassau.
The Bahama Islands furnish nearly the
whole supply that reaches the American
market; and that tropical group of coral
islets, Eleuthera, grows about three
fourths of the entire crop. The Balti-
more News" says:
The vessels that bring them across the
ocean take the fruit aboard at the island
of Eleuthera itself, getting as near to
the pine fields as the nature of the shore
will admit, while very few are loaded at
the town of Nassau itself. These YES
sells are clipper-built schooners, strong
and swift sailers, as it Is desirable to get
the fruit to market as speedily as posi-
BILE; and yet, strange to say, sometimes
a vessel making long voyage will reach
here with her entire cargo fresh and
good, while another, starting at the
same time and making shorter trip,
will get into port with, perhaps, nearly
every fruit aboard of her rotten and only
fit to be thrown away.
The reason why this is so has never
been explained. AS q rule, the loss by
rot is about from one-third to one-half
of the entire quantity brought to the
American market. The first shipment
of pine apples to the United States was
made about the year 1920, by Thomas
Cash, of Harbor Island, in an American
schooner called the Levi Rowe, of Fair
haven, Conn. The fruit arrived in good
condition, the venture proved successful
and from that time forward the ship
ment of pine apples from the Bahamas
grew into regular and profitable bust
ness, an impetus was given to the culti-
walton of the plant, and with growing
demand and increased supply, the traffic
has risen to the extent of about $500 900
annually.
BY far the greatest portion of the crop
is supplied by the island of Eleuthera,
and is principally grown by inhabitants
of Harbor Island, which lies on the
opposite side-the finest of the Bahama
Islands. One who has never been on
coral island can form but the faintest
notion of the exceeding roughness of
the surface and the ungrateful aspect of
the ground. The island of Eleuthera,
which furnishes such vast numbers of
pine apples, is covered in the main by
wild vegetation, while the earth from
which it springs is in great part of the
toughest conceivable character of rock.
Holes of every size, form and descrip-
tion-some of them partly or wholly
filled with dirt, the debris of decayed
vegetation, loose fragments, large and
small, round and angular, sharp and
hard-everywhere abound.
No plough, no spade, no hoe can there
be used. The only thing that can be
done is to stick sprout into one of the
holes, and let it take care of itself, which
it almost invariably does right well, for
it likes that kind of soil and sips its
sweet nourishment from the little dirt
it may happen to find in the hollow of
the rock. The holes are very close to-
gether, the sprouts are placed scarcely
foot from each other, and as the plant
grows up it spreads its long, hard, sharp
leaf blades, with edges armed with little
rasping saw-like teeth, up from the
ground and abroad in every direction.
The plant has thick supply of these
out-bending leaves, Tapped closely one
over the other near the ground, and out
of the entire of which comes up the
fruit, one pine apple only to each plant,
which then perishes, but leaves behind
progeny of young sprouts, and these
being stuck into the hollows, insure a
new crop for the succeeding year.
This replenishing can be kept up for
about six years, and then the whole
field, about exhausted, is left to itself,
the plants die out, in the course of time
the soil is renewed and fresher fields
now demand the care of the pine grower.
The only attention given to the plant is