The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-21

country, Id the neiphborhood of tn,
capital, the ther mometsr ranges be-
tween I'll degrees aud rs degrees from
year to year. Not DULY tropical fruit,
are grown in the Acadian vnle,s, bin
American cor grsins and vegitanlei
pumpkins. peaches, apples, etc., Eng
lish wheat and clover and potatoes tha
would water the mouth Of an LmeraiC
Islander.
Senior Astsbu~iaga, who is undOubf ed
authority, SAYS that the yet unappro
priated public lands in northern Costa
Rlca-nOt to mention those in the
| south aud west-amount TO more thar
COO, 600 acres. The valley of Oros
alone has ample room fol 2 600 farm
ers, and Is capable of yielding TWO full
crops of wheat and three crops of corr
IN year. In fact all over the count. y
from Lake Nicaragua to the Panamiar
frontier are valleys where whole ma
tons. such as Portugal and Holland
could find ample room and the best o.
living.
But to return to our New England
coffee rlsnter. His is q typical ca tetd
| about 1900 feet above sea level, in q re-
giou which 30 tremendously blends the
best of soil and climate, that he raises
the productions of
BOTH TEMPERATE AND ToRRID ZONES
hedging his corn fields with giant
century" plants, his wheat with cocoa
pains and olives, pumpkins and pomt
grantees growing side by side with
potatoes and pineapples, and cultivat-
ing oranges and apples in the same
orchard.
Though our friend has millions of
cotfee-trees, he assures Us that ten acres
is quite enough for a coffee grove, all
that one individual can well attend to,
and will yield a handsome income.
Coffee is not bush, as many suppe sc,
but tree, which will shoot up thirty or
forty feet, if allowed to grow. When
properly cultivated, it is nipped off
about six feet from the ground, thus
presenting a surface from which the
berries can easily be picked, and per-
uniting the main stalk to gain greater
strength.
The fall shrubs, with their glossy.
dark-green leaves, somewhat resemble
magnolias-but the starry, snow-white
flowers remind one of orange blossoms,
in all but fragrance. The phenomenon
is constantly displayed Of ripe and
green fruit, buds and blossoms, all
on the same stem. But, though per
petualIy Towering and developing
fruit, the real harvest season is from
April to November. When fully ma
tured, the berries are dark red, looking
precisely like common variety of sea.
bean. They turn to dull brown, after
being picked and become almost black
by drying.
twenty-five pounds per annum to a
single tree is considered fair Weld.
The gathered berries are dried in the sun
on straw mats or plaster floors, Then
they are separated and milled, BY be-
ing put through mills, if one is not
or by the ancient process-still
much in vogue hereof pounding them
in mortars. On the weather. planta- |
tons. the primitive mortars (holIowed |
out of monstrous cedar stumps, with |
ponderous pestle like lpaviers ram
mer) has shared the fate of the patri- |
archal pillow, and been superseded by |
The newest and best machinery.
In many places,
YOUNG GIRLS WERE EMPLOYED
% sort over the coffee-putting up the
berries, kernel by kernel, putting the
dump ones by themselves and the
mailer and imperfect ones with an
,ther receptacle, and for this labor they
re paid at the rate of only 20 cents per
hundred pounds Coffee separated in
his manner commands the highest
rice, and our generous New Highlander
Inds no lack OF willing hands: some he
Jays the unusually high price of 80
ents per hundred pounds. Said he, in
he quaint vernacular of the district he
JAILED from, II h'ain't got the heart to
ee them bare-legged critters bumped
'ver all day at less wages than that, for
ach one On 'em can sort more than
fifty pounds between sun-up and dark"
If one is going to start a coffee plan
alton, the best way is to obtain plants
bout six months old, and set them six
eet apart, in rows eight or ten feet
vide. This gives ample room between
or corn, pine apples, bananas, tobacco,
n whatever one wishes to cultivate for
profit, besides providing for
he sure growth of the trees in years to
ONE. Most planters have found it
est to raise bananas with their coffee,
because those rapidly growing bushes
lot only afford the dense shade that
o ng coffee trees require, but their
alling shards make an excellent fer
ilizer, while their roots absorb and re-
ain the moisture so much needed in
his thirsty soil. Besides, the bananas
an be made 10 yield considerable in
ONE before the coffee begins to bear,
s by the second year they produce
GREAT PUNCHES OF FRUIT,
hich ripper well after being gathered, i
Zip easily, and always find ready
larket.
PIatanos, as bananas are here called,
re the most useful of fruits, since in all
optical countries they form a staple ar
Gle of food for the poor. Buehle, the
speaking of the nutrative
overs of the banana, says that one
ire of them will support fifty PERSONS:
lille an acre sown with wheat will SUP
)rt only ten persons. He asserts that
le nutrative powers of this fruit are
rty-four times greater than that of
,tato and 133 times greater than that Q
wheat. t
Dried platanos are great branch of !
ade IN Costa RIGA, and with their
ack, shrivelled skins and flavor of
noked or spoiled fish, are as highly
lished by the natives as disliked by
ost Americans. There are different