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

nriiius. surrounding n single seed. In
the Banda Islands, whence most 81 our
supply comes, The fruit II picked into
small oval baskets at the end of a bam-
boo to prevent bruislng The porlcarp
IL FIRST removed. then the arillus.
carefully stripped on and dried. Then
the seeds enclosing the valuable Kernel
ARE put into a drying house and exposed
to gentle heat about two months, being
turned every second day. The shells
are then broken open with a wooden
mallot and the nutmcga picked out and
sorted, the Inferior ones being reserved
for expressing into the Ho-chiled oil OF
mace. Then the dried nutmegs are
rubbed over with lime or dipped into
a bath OF lime-milk. IN order to spoil
them for generation. so that buyers
may not plant them and thus steal tho
trade. The thrifty Dutch, who con-
troll tho M0luccn nutmeg business. arc
responsible for this little dodre. but II
~ waste of time. since n has been
demonstrated that the drying process.
and even n weeks exposure 10 the sun.
destroys the
FERTILITY or THE KERNEL.
The Dutch have known Il many years.
but since FOR centuries buyers have
been accustomed TO the whitIah exterior
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upon those without r.. they continue
the unnecessary limo proccHa. In
some parts Of the East indies the en-
tire fruit. with the nutmeg kernel in
side. ~ boiled In sugar and exported ne
a rare ana costly sweetheart. Nut
meg butter" or Oh OF mace. n made
by grinding the refuse nutmogs to a
powder. enclosing II I'm bag and steam
Ing u long time over a cnldron: then
comprcasinE II while stili warm be-
tween powerful wedges. The brown
luid which flows out uolidlncH In tlmo
and u the butter In question. OF
great value as commercial product.
The kernels yield about "a quarter OF
their weight In this substance, Some
idea % the possible extent OF this In
duHtry may be gained from the New
York shipping reports, which show
that upwards Of 100000 pounds Of nut.
meEs are brought into the United
states every year and 80 900 pounds ~
mace. Estimating 100 nutmcra to the
pound-which every housewife knows
retail az penny apicce-you may
figure out the sum total at leisure.
The Glove tree. another tall and
stately evergreen, n easily grown In
tho West Indies and especially Ia the
tropical lowlundn Of southern cuba.
where II was introduced By tho monks.
along with the nutmeg, some centuries
ago. IT. native home II the eastern
coast of Africa, Java, sumntrn, Zanzi-
bar and neighborlng Islands Of the
Indian archipelago. where tho Dutch
monopolizc its cultivation. From the
earliest days OF the Christian era the
Glove has been one OF tho principal
oriental spices which made such n
lucrative western trade that nations
have fought FOR its possession, Tho
Portuguese held II for a hundred years.
until early IN the seventeenth century,
when they were expelled by the Dutch
from the Moluccas. The French In
troduccd the Glove tree into Mauritiua
In 11i0. and then into Zanzibar. and
French Guiana on this hemisphere:
and the English have experimental
largely with II In their Indian posses