The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-01-07

which to do work. Much cane juice is
made into rum, which contains 80 or 60
per cent. of alcohol, and can be afforded
for 10 or Is cents a quart As this arti-
Gle seems admirably adapted 10 the
Peruvian and Bolivian digestive apEa-
ratus, it is used largely as a beverage,
and is within the iinancia grasp OF the
humbest citizen As with our com
posite citizens of Milwaukee avenue,
such mild tipple as this rum and Ken
lucky sour mash are never diluted by
drinkers. and seem TO produce no delete
riouS effects upon the copper-lined anat-
omies of all who delight in this form of
intoxicatiOn, and the census records few
who do not.
COTTON AND WOOL
The cotton plant, instead of diminu-
tive shrub as with us, is a tree in Peru.
1t begins TO bear when il is two or three
year old and continues 10 produce cotton
for fifty years. In the warm country OF
the north of Peru two crops of cotton a
year are picked, and it is all marketed in
England; the amount annually exported
is worth about five millions of dollars.
This industry could be enlarged a
hundred fold. Peru exports wool To
about the same value as its cotton. and
there seems TO be hardly any limit TO
which sheep raising might be carried.
In this land of present backwardness
most people outside the towns make their
own cloth in rude looms. There are to-
day only two wooden factories in the
whole country. one at Lima and one at
Cuzco. Here is rich field for manu-
featuring cotton and wooden cloths.
TIE VINE.
la rfa, t1tr oil
in the cooler southern regions of the
country Only half million barrels of
wine are now made, but there is no
reason why the product could not easily
be increased fifty fold, and enterprise
and capital will eventually enlarge this
to an enormously profitable industry.
THE POTATO.
The potato, as is well known. is a ma
tive of this region: that it grows wild
nearly everywhere where there is mois-
ture enough for it, Pizarro found IL
cultivated by the natives, and the seed
was taken to Europe by the Spaniards.
A writer says he has seen the wild plant
which he could hardly recognizes: 10 was
only six inches high, with blue blossom
like a small violet, and the potatoes on
the roots below were no larger than
flberts. From this wild weed the
hundreds of varieties of potatoes have
been derived by cultivation, and they
have become one of the most important
articles of food for the whole world. As
an illustration of the disadvantage at
which labor is done i'm Peru, an observer
says that he saw a party OF laborers
gathering potatoes from field. A team
of oxen plowed up the hills with light
plow exposing the tu5ers; the laborers
picked up the potatoes and carried them
TO pile in one corner of the field with
out bag or basket, carrying them in their
hands, with the exception Of two of the
laborers who used their hats, and thus
going to and from every part of the field.
An American boy with whce-barrOw
would do more work OF this kind than
twenty Peruvians.
COFFEE.
No country of the world could raise
better coffee than that which grows i'm
the warmer portions OF Peru, though
| little is now raised beyond the needs of
home consumption. Here is another OPP
portunity for most profitable invest
| mcnts.
OATS AND GRASS.
Oats can be raised I'm the mountainous
regions, but none have yet been exported
In fact, by going to the higher lands.