, 1891-10-21
To take the experiments :

IS AICu61 Ududud. 1ulS u6S pEOVOO % CdpI(6I
nursery, furnishing during the past two
years, upwards of 100, 900 plants for distri-
button, and as many more are ready for
the same purpose. They '|were planted
8 K 10, but this is too close for good fruit
bearing, II feet square should be the dis
lance all suckers should be kept cut dOwn
to the bearing plant, and one only allowed
to grow when the parent stem is showing
signs %offruit. This will ensure the market
able ration bunch"
Shipping bananas from Trinidad has not
proved succeSSfnl-chiefy from want of
knowledge of packing.
Attention has been paid to drying the
fruit. AT first in the Open air, but owing
to the damage aby the myriadS of insects,
the hot air fruit drier has been used-the
"Etna Pneumatic Fruit Drier." The dried
fruit has been accepted in London, New
York and canada. at remunerative prices"
Red Bananas-Five acres planted, with a
view principally of obtaining fibre from the
stems. A sample of the fibre submitted by
His Excellency to Messrs. Idle and Christie
in 1886 was valued at e25 per ton. A stem
Weighing 100 lbs. will yield between one
and two pounds of clean fibre. 700 plants
to the acre should give annual yield OF
more than half ton of fbre-Say, Gl2 los,
less cost of production, freight etc., esti-
mated to leave half profits to producer. I'm
der the bananas, experiments we're made
with minor products, cucumber, egg plant,
and ginger. The heavy rain was too much
for these. The ginger realised 81 per bar
rel in New YOrk-unSaleable i'll Canada. Rice
was SOwn in the drains and 6 cwt. harvested.
The fruit of the red banana was used for
cattle foOd-cOOked with a little salt; being
rich in albumen and starch, they improve the
food value of milk, and furnish good
manur
A sample of meal from the MOko plantain
was sent to LOndOn-sixpence per pound
offered for it. Attention has been drawn to
this meal by Mr.. II. NJ. Stanley in Darkest
Africa A Is lbs. bunch will give 3lbs.
meal. Two women could prepare So lbs.
Il day.
Mangoes- A plantation of CTS trees from
seed of best varieties. They appear to have
come t!ue to their kinds. Suggested ship
ment OF fruit with careful packing, or
dried.
Orange8-A plantation of about 2 acres of
sweet oranges contains 800 trees Is x Is,
and 260 coffee 6 x 6-b0th doing well. Some
boxes of fruit sent to Canada, and after pay
ing expenses gave an average profit of 81
per 100, A large quantity of provisions
were grown or this field the value Of which
left "A large profit OH the cost of cultivation.
Trinidad oranges are not named. "a trade
in them now being pushed names would be
useful for commercial purposes
Sicily Lemons-To be grown on poor san.
dy soil, or else the fruit too gross. Not
wanted in New York. The result of send
ing them to Canada given in Record for
April 1891. Competition with better grown
Mediterranean fruit renders the product a
douhtful one for Trinidad.
Pine Apples-A few sent to New York and
a profit of sd. a pine obtained-cOnsidered
profitable. The fibre of the leaf valuable
though not commercially known, a sample
was valued at $50 per ton.
Citrons-550 trees planted IL feet apart,
Candied fruit of good quality exhibited
price of refined sugar prohibits candying;
but the peel in brine finds q profitable mar
ket in London.
Avocada Pears-FaiIures and abandoned.
Fibres = Ldngueboeuf- About five acres
SIX with nurseries in large quantity, so as
to meet demand for plants if arising. In
very poor land yet showing good growth.
HSanseuieria. Three acres. Growing so IA.
pidly as to exclude weeds. "ThiS is one of
the most valuable fibre plants yet brought
to notice. 1t is most easily cultivated and
yields the maximum of fibre for the minimum
Ofwaste in manufacture" Sample valued by
Messrs. Ide & Christie at $50 per ton, FIVE
years ago. In 1890 valued at 600 per ton