Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30

so many srapes that they are drug In
the market Good wine can now bo
bought for about two cents "A quart
bottle, and ID Us cheaper than pure wa
ter. Indeed, IL is so low that the Vine
yardists tell me IL hardly pays to make
IL,
have never seen slich grapes any
where. / measured some that were
served for desert ut the hotel here last
night. They were three and a half
inches in circumference. or more than
an inch in diameter. They tasted as
sweet as maple syrup and their flavor
was delicious. The best OF the grapes
now in the markets sell for about u
cent a pound.
L have seen excellent vineyards eve
rywhere | have gone. Algeria has al
most a half million acres devoted 10
Them and they extend from one end
OF II to the other, The Wine annually
made runs between one hundred ana
two hundred million gallons, and II
sells for from *25OOO.00O to $50 600.
the most OF 1t going Ia France The
French are careful as to the introduce
ton of fruit diseases lnto the colonies.
and they have stringent Laws against
the Importation OF trees. plants and
vines, AS well ms of flowers and fresh
fruits Indeed, the only vegetables NOW
admitted are potatoes, well cleaned.
Algeria produces all sorts OF fresh
garden stuff We have green peas and
beams, as Well az asparagus. celery and
lettuce. IRA dishes are raised In great
quantities, eggplants and tomatoes
thrive and onions and potatoes Yield
two crops q year. Vegetables by the
shtpIoad go 10 France throughout the
year, and Paris. Lyons Marseile and
other French cities rely upon this
country for their winter supplies o.
fresh fruit and garden stuff,
ALGERIAN FRUITS,
The Tell is now producing almost
everything that can be grown in the
United States. III has apples. peaches
and pears as well as figs and olives.
oranges and lemons The olive thrlTes
well UP into the Atlas mountains and
many OF the trees are centuries old
They live so long that the people have
saying that he who plants an olive
Is laying up treasures for his ehildren's
children. The olive crop Is now worth
about S. 900 a year, and 1000 tons
of olive oil are annually exported. There
are. altogether, about lO,000,00O olive
trees. OF which 5000, 600 are grated, The
natives con suTe large quantities of
olive oil, Even The 1SAbyles make 1t
in rude way and store ii In their huts
for the winter. II Is used for cooking,
and has largely the same place tina
butter has with us.
There is an enormous number OF figs
produced In Algeria, and something
like 100000 pounds are annually eX-
ported. The fruit Is f1ne although not
equal to that raised In Smyrna. Some
of the varieties are white and others
blue, The fig orchards are TO be seen
everywhere They are as common as
apples In America and quite as freely
eaten. The natives dry them and store
them away for winter use
AMONG THE STOCK RA1sERs-
Algeria does great deal of stock
farming Not only In the Tell. but In
the ranges of the Atlas mountains and
ON the high plateaus upheld by them.
are large tipcks Of sheep and goats, and
they are also to be found all along the
edges of the Desert OF sahara There
are more than 8, million uf cattle I'm the
Tell, and In the whole country more
than quarter OF a million donkeys
and almost that number OF horses, The
camels are something like 100000, and
the mules quite as many OF this stock
more than niue-teItths belong 10 the
natives.
The sheep here are fine, large, long
wooded animals, They weigh, VEN