Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-02
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is that Of New York concern export
ing licorice.
There are preserves made Of Jas
mines, comf1ts Of violets and rose
leaves, and different CONNECTIONS Of
orange flowers and mint. Turkish
babies are lulled to sleep with the
rhymes:
Mani shoo-oo, mani shfler,
Benin janim semi lister.
Peppermint water. peppermint
water, my soul longs for you" with
apologies for the badness Of the
translation.)
A wonderful variety Of sherbets IN
every color Of the rainbow is made
from oranges, lemons and other fruits.
Of course it is natural that a people
so fond of sweets should not be ad-
dicted to intoxicants. Nevertheless a
change has come over the Turks life
since the Balkan War. America,
which taught the Mussulman the use
Of tobacco, is now schooling him in
proving the first allurement Of those
beginning to drink. The sweetness and
the coloring Of the cocktail appeal to
the Turkish idea Of the delectable, and
it has sprung into wide vogue in Con-
stantinople and Smyrna. Loudly the
Mohammedan priests are protesting
and blaming Christianity for the evil
In so far as tobacco is concerned,
the Turk has proved an apt student,
advancing beyond his teacher His
cigarettes have become famed IN
every land and his cigarette tobaccos
possess a delicacy of favor unequalled
except in Egypt. An American com
pany spends over s10,0O0.0o0 a year in
Turkey in buying and preparing to-
bacco
But if Christianity has taught the
tobacco, the Mohammedans cannot
shirks the blame for the spread Of the
coffee habit 1t was from Turkey that
coffee drinking was introduced into
Europe.
The national drink Of Turkey is cof-
fee. The best comes from Yemen. IN
southwest Arabia. Yemen is the home
of the famous Mocha coffee. the finest
in the world. The choicest OF the
choicest cuttings go to the sultan ano
the Turkish nobility. The poorest
quality enters commerce, but this
poorest is better than the best coffee
to be found anywhere else, not except
ing Java
Few Americans have ever drunk the
real Mocha coffee. How we used te
be cheated is plain now since the
pure food law prohibits false labels
and we rarely see the name Of Mocha
any more, whereas nearly all conee
used to be called Java and Mocha But
even in its native land Mocha coffee IL
so dear that only the wealthy use j:
1t is a fact, therefore, the the great
bulk of the coffee consumed in Turkey
comes from Brazil. the same source
that supplies the United States.
Smyrna figs are known the woric
over. They too are products wherein
Turkey excels. After being dried
they are packed in camefs hair bags
of two Turkish knitals each "a knital
is about 125 pounds), and carried tt
the railroad station on camel back
Thus the crop is always reported by
camel loads, each load representing
two bags, or about 500 pounds. The
annual production of figs in Smyrna is
about $4,000 tons.
From Turkey our pistachio nuts
come. America is Turkeys best Gus
toner in the pistachio market, taking
nearly two-thirds Of the total exports
but there is an enormous home con-
sumption for confectionery. Nut
growing is developing into a very i'm
portant Turkish industry. Over 10o,-
900 pounds of filberts are annually ex-
ported from the Black Sea districts
Asiatic Turkey produces nearly 1000
tons Of walnuts a year, and European
Turkey 1900 tons.
Turkeys wheat crop amounts to
about 165,000.00O bushels, valued ut
$165, 000, 900. other cereal crops include:
Barley, 12o,000,000 bushels. worth
SIS, 900, 900; oats, 21,000.00O bushels,
worth 100000; rye, 100000 bush
els, worth $14.ooo.oOo; corn. S3,ooo.ooo
bushels, worth s25,6Oo,000.
The largest single item Of export
from the United States to Turkey is
cotton seed oil. It amounts to nearly
100000 year. It Is said that
Americans get much Of the cottonseed
oil back as olive oil. The expectation
of Albanian cheese to the United States
only began in 1910 and the trade is
growing rapidly. Turkey excels all
other nations in the making Of sausage
castings. America imports 100000
worth Of them q year.
An amazing agricultural revival Is
going ON all over Palestine, due large
" to the eAests Of the Zionist move
ment- Often it has been said that
the Jews never could be an agricultural
people, but here in their own land
the love Of the soil seems to return to