Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-14

Or. A. II. van Linge. the director OF
the factory. They all tell me that the
trees must be planted Just So and the
greatest care taken 10 enrich the soil.
Oil cakes and especially castor oil
cakes are used as manure. The ground
Is carefully cultivated and the plants
are set out according to the methods
which the government experiments
have proved best
The plants are raised from the seeds,
which are sown in sed beds The seeds
are much like flax seed, 50 small that
one ounce OF them will produce about
10000 plants. After the sprouts have
grown about four inches high they ale
transpanted and later on transplanteI
again into the places where they are to
stay.
At first the trees were set out wide
apart. but now they are planted at ep.
cry three or four feet, and as they grow
alternate trees are cut out from year
TO year TO give the Others more room,
The bark OF those cut out Is used. so
that the plantation begins 10 produce
something within a short time. The
first cutting Is at about the third year,
and the cutting continues until the
grown. In taking out the trees both
the roots and branches are saved for
they both yield duinine. although the
hest quinlne comes from the bark Of
the stem The bark Is dried I'm the sun
or IN evaporators and then packed up
and rent to the factory 10 be made in
to quinlne
1000 TREES TO THE ACRE.
DR.. van Linge tells me that about a
thousand trees are planted 10 the acre
and that on the government plantations
there are single trees which viii yield
as much as s64 worth OF quinine At
this rate a thousand would yield s64 600
the greatest profit per acre perhaps or
any cron known. Even though II re-
quired ten years 10 grow the whole
crop this would be equal 20 $1,000 per
acre per year. Divi'e this by 4 and
Won would still do well. You could have
81 COO per acre which Is ~ no means
n had yield IN these davs Of 4 per cent
interest and 70-cent wheat
IN A QUININE FACTORY.
The biggest quinlne factory Of the
world is situated in this city Of Ban
dong 1t is under government super
NlNlpNs bNl ~ run as a private enter
prise In the interests of no planters.
although believe they have no stock IN
II. The factory does not buy the Gin
chona bark II merely takes toll for
IT'S work The bark 10 delivered ia
bales OF 200 pounds each These are
carefully analyzed bv the government
chemists 10 find the percentage Of
duinlne which each bale contains AZ
ter this the planter gets n check for
the value OF the bark los- the toll. and
the bark IA now thrown In with thu
other bark in the warehouse. I went
with Or. van Llnge through the differ
ent branches Of the factory watching
the processes ~ reducing the bars 10
quinine. AS II comes from the tree N
looks not unlike ordinary bark. but
when YOU taste II II Is like biting in
10 a pill Much ~ II comes 10 the fac
tory IN dust. and II Is all reduced 20
dust before II Is carried into the mill.
BOILED IN KEROSENE OIL.
The dust looks like cinnamon ground
fine. 1t Is reddish brown but each
brown grain incloses some Of the white
atoms we know as qulnlno. The proc
ess Is To get the white atoms out This
is done by mixing the dust with water
and boiling It In mineral oils, The boil
ing is done IN great watts OF steel
In which a sort OF Kerosene refuse Is