Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-29

entirely different orders Of plants. Tho
black pepper. constantly used In every
household Is the fruit of perennial
shrub. which is indigenous 10 Inc West
Indies, as well ~ The Malay peninsula
and the Islands Of the Indian ocean.
IL was the first spice known To- man and
FOR ages formed staple article OF com.
rnerce between Europe and the Orient
Tribute has been levied IN pepper; NJ
In the year 40s, when AiarIe demanded
three thousand pounds on IL as psrt ~
the ransom Of Rome. All through the
middle ages pepper corn ranta prD-
vailed. the renter being compelled TO
pay a pound Of pepper az stated inter.
walls. The cxnrbltant price N II, whom
brought by the Arabs across tho dos.
erts, led the Portuguese To- seek n sea.
route 10 India, IN the course VI which
they discovered the passage around tho
Cape OF Good Hope. and thereafter for
two hundred years. the pepper trade re-
maincd almost monopoly of the por.
tuguose crown IN England pepper
used 20 be very heavily taxed. as late ne
1928 the lmpost amounting to 2s. Gd.
the n. Venice Genoa and other cities
OF southern Europe owed their emily
wealth 90 traffic In pepper. would
II not be curious N the same thing
should happen TO some OF these out.of.
the-wny towns Of our new p1asessi1na7
History Sometimes repeats Urcif
Nowadays the largest quantities ~
pepper are produced In ponang. the
island Of RHO, ana lahore nOar sluEn.
pore. Jamaica pepper" ao-caliod,
which Is indigenous also 10 California,
Florida and other parts OF our own
South, " not pepper at m. but the
fruit OF an evergreen tree 0f the myrtle
family. In the West Indies Il IL known
ais "plmonto." and with us nH "nlispico."
being supposed TO combine tho fhvors
Of az spices. Considering the amount
Of allsplce used. fortunes must hang Ia
the beautiful pink clusters OF these
common pimonto trees, waiting for the
picking.
As 10 cuban coffee. tho Industry has
about gone out OF date lu recent wears.
but may be revived now that money IL
becoming moro plentiful Thirty years
ago there were hundreds OF proaucrous
"cafctals" on the mountain slopes near
Santiago. whore The conor-buah -FOUR
ishca ita best at an average altitude Of
1900 fcut The old records show that
six million pounds of native coffee woro
annually consumed IN cuba, and the
rest of the product, tabout ten million
pounda), went from Santiago and
Guantanamo 10 France aud spain. II
suited the policy OF the spanish gov
errors 10
DRAW BLooD.MoNEY
from every pore. and thcy squeezed tho
life out or coffee, as well uH sugar, IN
cuba. when tho negroes were freed.
and European beet sugar began 90 COM
pete with sugar-cune. the Creole plant
ura were ruined. The torch Of the in
HurrcCtion came later. and now there lH
not a conec-p plantation OF any account
In Cuba. although the finest coffee In
the world grows here. Tho hills around
Trinidad and Santiago are particularly
favorable 10 coffee culture. because tho
dnyvH uro heavier thnu ia tho INtylnnHa
and the morning mista settle longer
Tho native planters always look Tor "a
growth NJ lnnccwood, olive or redwood
uH n ncver-fnlling sign that the ground
lH good FOR coffee. They sow the seed
broadcast. on nursery patch in the
shade, on the same ground intended
for the crop. Then the fOld ~ lined out
IN rows four fcct apart, and the plants
are set In the rows at regular dlatancuH
The trunsplantlng n done when the
nursery trees are a year old. letwcen
his coffee tho Cuban planter raises
corn. beans. potatoes, plnntnlua, and
shades it from the sun with cocoa and
banana trees. Soon as tho coffee bush
IL four foot high, II ~ cut on az the top
20 give more horizontal growth, and
all the sprouts are trimmed 60 force
the strength into berries. About three
thousand plants can thus be grown 20
the acre. In the third year the planter
begins TO pick his coffee and W tho
fourth year he gets a full crop. Eigh-
teen hundred pounds TO tho acre n con-
sidercd "a fair yield; but OF this, prob