The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-30


me htsie negroes for miles around were
InViteu 10 attend free of charge
Besides the lessons, thoy were tanSbf
now 10 pick tea and then given regular
employment outside school hours. max
ing enough 10 buy clothes and food.
private corporation known as the
american Tea Growing Company has q
successful farm in Colleton county.
South Carolina. while at South Fraser
and the Rose Tea Garden stations. vari
GUS teas arc proving their worth.
Among the varieties that have proved
their hardihood IN the South Carolina
climate are Dragon s Pool, Assam Hy.
prld, DarJeelng, Kangra, Japanese,
fottnosa and Ceylon. At the experiment
SaI;fo ssI;ton near wharton, Texas and in
oailtornla, tea has been found to grow
well In China the tea yield is rarely
over 200 pounds TO the acre The Pine.
hurst plantation frequently produces
as high as 25O pounds from small trees.
The best Chinese tea comes from old
trees, some OF which are 200 years old.
The good old padres of Father .Juni-
pero Sierra s mission band brought rbe
oiive with them into California. and in
the San Fernando valley, where shere
is now the largest olive ranch in the
world, there still remains the great
stone basin and stone press in which the
Fathers made oil for their own use.
European olive trees bear little until
hfteen years old, and are not fully
productive until they are thirty. In
California two gallons of berries have
been picked from two year-old trees,
and thirty gallons from six-year-olds
The San Fernando valley ranch has
100 acres and sends out over $4,000
gallons year, One gallon of the bit
ter green berries will make from pint
to quart of oil. Fifty varieties OF
the olive will grow in this country,
though 1T chooses only the southern and
middle California valleys. and parts
of Mexico and Arizona. for its habitat.
1t requires great care the first few
years OF It's life, but after that gets
on with only moderate attention and
yields about $3.50 worth OF oil to the
acre.
The duty on lemons is about eighty
five cents box, but as the cost Of
picking In this country is from $125
to So day, and in Sicily from six
cents to fortyfve cents, the Amcri-
can product enters the market on about
equal terms with the foreign Cali
sending out tho fruit in noticeable
quantities in 1902, shipping East about
2O00 carloads that year Her effect
on the market had been felt somewhat
before, for in 1892 the value of i'm
ported lemons was S4,54S,26 and in
ten years it dropped to $3,000,000. Much
of California s profit from her lemon
such as lemon oils and extracts.
The cItron and the lime have found
a home in California and Florida, and
pay well for their raising The date |
palm from Egypt has also found a
comfortable footing on the sand-hills |
of California and the Southwest, while |
the grape has followed fast on the heels
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country. The grape fruit has chosen
all Southern Florida and a small part
of Louisiana as permanent abiding
places. The accidental discovery of a
grape fruit tree in an orange orchard |
in California proved its affinity for the
soil and climate of that region also. |
Pizarro and his hardy Spanish explor..
the pineapple and found it good. Roy !
atty alone had been able to eat of it |
before, it having only been cultivated |
in Holland and England to a small |
extent as early as the seventeenth cen.
tury. The opening of trade with South
made its use more general, and
it was finally introduced into Florida
in 1860, where it has been remunera.
tive and productive outdoor plant eve1
since.
The banana was first introduced into
the United States by a German waiter
on a steamer plying between Panama
and New York. His name was Charles
Frank and he brought over several
punches which he sold for a fabulous
sum. Later he engaged in the banana
culture in Central America, and the
trade he founded about forty years ago
has grown into one of the largest in
the world. While the banana plant is
to small sections Of Florida, !
il can never be cultivated there for
profit. But experiments with the man"
go, the mangosteen, the guava and the
plumquot have proved all these finely
adapted to the conditions there, and
possible sources Of satisfactory revenue.
The Department Of Agriculture has
been untiring in its efforts to discover
the fruits. vegetables and grains that
can safely be adopted by an ambitious
and through It's efforts the
sub tropical regions especially will en-
ioy rapid development in the next de-
cade.
Tomorrow The State of Ken
lucky