Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-02

A moment later both men made rush
for the door. Their stomachs were
turned inside out, \and as Mr.. Mans
field expressed 1t, they thought that
even their heels were coming up
through their threats. There is a fruit
something like II melon sold In the mar
kets of Panama which is n strong di-
gestant, and which. am told, mas
almost as much pepsln in II as n pigs
stomach, and farther down in Colombia
grows the lechemlel tree. the sap OF
which is like cows milk and has much
the same nutritious properties. Then
In come provinces the cinchona or
1uinine tree grows. and also the cacao,
from which comes our chocolate.
AN AMERICAN COCOANUT PLAN
TATION.
Along the lowands of Colombia there
cocoanuts. you know, grow on n palm
tree They are to be seen by the
bushel along the Tsthmus Of Panama.
hanging close to the stem or the tree,
away up Mt the top. often MS nigh as
thirty feet above the ground. where
the great palm leaves spring out. II is
only lately that men have gone into
cocoanut raising as n business and |
am told that groves of these trees have
recently been planted in Florida. There
is big cocoanut plantation owned by
an American in partnership with
Colombian on the Lighthouse point Just
opposite where the steamers land at
| Colon. The American is the Mr.. Hyatt
| of Washington of whom ] have spoken
as being connected with the big man
| ganese mine owned by John X. Cowen
and others. Mr.. Hyatt tells me that
the plantation consists of 1900 acres
! and that they have already planted
| 10000 trees and have about 5000 In
| bearing. They are now shipping from
| fifteen to twenty thousand nuts n
l Ia NnN N
years from now, when the rest OF their
trees will be in fruit. they expect the
orchard to produce 10000 nuts n month.
! Cocoanut trees. you know. bear all the
| year round. and the blossoms and the
! ripe nuts are on the tree at the same
, time. The nuts are not picked. but drop
! from the tree when they are ripe. and
| the workmen go daily from tree to
| tree and pick mp the nuts, husk them.
and they are then ready for shipment.
| They bring from $50 to $35 n thousand
in New York. and the greater part Of
this IL clear profit.
HOW COCOANUTS ARE RAISED.
thing of the expense and management
| of such an orchard. Said he:
| at costs very little to run 1t. We are
now paying out, all told, only about
| $50 month and our receipts are from
5000 to $500 a month. You see, the
/
| and after they are once In bearing all
| we have to do Is to gather and ship the
| nuts. We have one part Of the planta-
| ton which we call the nursery. Here
we raise the young trees. The nuts
are placed on the top of the ground a
| short distance apart. Within n short
| time each nut sends out sprout from
| one Of the little eyes or holes which are
| found in one end Of II. The sprout
shoots up into the air and n root shoots
down into the ground. Within n few
| months. without any attention what
ever the sprout grows from two to
| three feet high and It is then ready for
| transplanting. This is done by break
ing or the root and putting the nut
and sprout into little hole in the
ground just n little deeper than the
thickness of the nut. We press the
earth around It and the planting Is
| done. We set the trees out about flf-
teen feet apart. For the first three
years we cut out the brush from
around the trees, but after this they
are left to take care of themselves
They begin to bear at about seven
years of age and keep on bearing for
many years. A good tree should dron
about seventy-hve nuts a year, and
many OF ours do much better than
that"
SOME QUEER INSTITUTIONS IN
| PANAMA.
J found Panama one OF the queer