Arizona republican., 1912-04-22
Thirty Thousand Are AL ready Admitted and Hunt is Going on
 for More
BUREAU DOES
 VALUED WORK
To Date Its Labors Have Resulted in Adding Largely to Coun-
 try's Wealth
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 WASHINGTON, April 21-That 31,O0O immigrants representing prac- tically every quarter of the globe have been admitted to this country 1 in the last fourteen years in spite of the fact that they could neithe" read nor write, and were deaf, dumb, and blind into the bargain, is a fact as little known as that Uncle Sam has brought them in without consult l ing their wishes and set them to work without even a cent of wages. l Most surprising of all. however. 1 through the activities of these ap- parently hopelessly useless aliens l hundreds of millions of dollars have ; been added to the country's wealth. These curious immigrants, how ] ever, some of which are aristocrats and some plebeians. are not human i beings, but plants, and She meth cd of their introduction to this coun- 1 try constitutes one of the most in l teresting as well as well as one of | the least known features of a work ] of extreme importance to the whole i country which the government is carrying on Though few persons are f l decade and a half has systematical- | ly been encouraging vegetable inn migrants To assist in this work | a plant immigration station is main ! tained here where each specimen ar ; irving here goes through an examina- l tion very similar to that to which 1 human immigrants are subjected. l Each specimen is scrutinized to see ! l likely to become desirable citizen and if so helped to become estab- i lished in this country. How sue
 cessful these aliens have been is | shown in the fact that in the last l fourteen years thirty-one thousand of them have been admitted by the l bureau and put to work increasing | our national wealth and diversifying 1 our food supply
 AS might be expected the handling | of these nlant immigrants is one of 1 the fields of activity of the depart 1 ment of agriculture where the curious visitor to the departments immigra- ] tion bureau finds the work centralized | in the office of chief agricultural explorer Fairchild the top of whose 1 desk is likely to present a strange l appearance. being decorated, for in- i stance. by a few specimens of "can-
 non ball" fruit from tropical East 1 Africa. a number of immense Orien
 | tai persimmons free from quicker 1 and a bedraggled specimen of edible | bamboo just in from China where it
 is a much more important article of
 l food than our asparagus which it { somewhat resembles.
 1 Generally speaking these plant inn
 migrants. while all are useful, may
 be classed as aristocrats and com
 | moners One of the former in which
 the department is especially interest
 ed, which is in a fair way to be
 given citizenship in our markets. is
 the mango from India. It is totally
 different from the west Indian seed
 ling mango reeking of turpentine
 MT. Fairchild pronounces it the most
 delicious fruit known. He describes
 it as tasting a little like a pine
 apple. but without the acidulous qual-
 itv of that fruit possessing hint
 of the apricot and a delightful aro-
 matic flavor rare in fruits. Its tex
 | ture is like that of a melting pear or a fine custard which dissolves in the mouth A hundred mango trees
 were planted in California in 1902 and 1910 one bore 500 fruits which sold at twelve cents apiece. while the latest reports from or , chards now in existence promise a l large crop. Tn India annual celebra- } tions are hel1 in honor of the mango } tree of which there are hundreds Of } varieties producing fruits ranging n size from a plum up to six pounds Curiously enough India after cen
 turies of mango growing has just learned from Florida nurseryman } the secret of budding" the mango, $ i bv which one tree may become the
 l progenitor of upwards of half mir r lion new trees in a four year cycle ) Two other strange fruits which are s in a fair way to become contestants for American honors are the loqua : from China and the carrisa rom 1 1 Southern Africa The latter fruit is about ready to come on the market 9 from American orchards in Califor- e nia Ii is a brilliant red in color, e about the size of plum, but without |. the large seed of the plum Dozens s of other rare transplanted luxuries : are growing in odd corners of the n country awaiting the time when they e may successfully tickle the national n palate.
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