El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-13

as far away as those Of New York city.
American College in Brazil
Among the American Institutions IN
Brazil is the Mckenzie college here az
Sac Paulo. This is one Of the chief
educational institutions Of South Amer
ica and il has students from every part
Of the continent. The college is unde-
nOminational governed by board OF
trustees in New York city
It was founded in 1856, having devel-
oped out Of a Presbyterian mission
school known as the Escola AmeIl-
cana Some Of the buildings are gifts
Of United States senators. and the head
OF the institution is DR.. Horace A.
Lane, who was born in Maine, went to
college in Missouri, ana got his doctor
OF laws degree from the university OF
New York. He came to Brazil 10 prac-
tice medicine, but was Induced 20 take
the presidency of this institution, which
he has made famous for its high edu-
catiOnal standard.
The most Of the students come from
Brazil, but OF the 900 now in the col
lege, 1913 are Italians, IS Portuguese, %
Germans. IL Americans and 80 British
Altogether, something like $1,000 stu
dents have been graduated from the in
stitution, and Of these nearly 1000 have
been educated free Of charge
Greater Area Than Arizona.
The country is beautiful The high
lands are rolling and one rides Tor
miles through REGIONS that remind him
The state has an area greater than
that Of Arizona, and its population Is
now several million It is a country
Of highlands and lOwlands. The low
lands are along the coast and the high
lands are TO be found on the Brazilian
plateau, which runs from Paraguay al
most TO the Atlantic ocean It is on
the highlands that the coffee is raised.
but the plantations take up but very
small part of the area Of the state. and
they might be doubled or trebled in
size As it is now the state produces
about half Of all the coffee consumed
by man. In 1910 the yield was more
than 12,00O,00O bags, or enough to have
given every man, woman and child in
the world one pound Of coffee and LETT
some to spare.
2,O6O,OOO Acres in Coffee.
The number of acres devoted 10 COZ
fee culture is a little more than z,0OO,-
600. II is not One-half the size Of Massa-
chusetts, but, nevertheless, II contains
almost zoo. 100000 coffee trees A large
part Of the revenue Of the state comes
from export duties on coffee The
United States takes a great part Of the
coffee crop, and these duties come out
Of the price that we pay for the coffee.
In that sense we do much toward the
support Of sac PaulO. I doubt not that
half the readers Of this newspaper have
had with their breakfasts this morning
coffee that came from sac Paulo.
Is "A Progressive State.
Sac Paulo has live, uptOdate gov
eminent The officials are interested
in the development Of the country, and
they are importing experts from differ
ent parts Of the world to assist them
in its exploitation The agricultural
department has some experts who were
trained in our department at Washing
ton, and many OF the experiments that
are being made in the United States are
now carried on here
There are large government farms,
not only for coffee. cotton and cereals,
but also for the raising Of livestock.
New plants are being introduced and
lectures are given to the farmers. The
government sends out free seeds and
cuttings and il is now publishing an
agricultural review which is widely
distributed. The state has an agricul-
tural institute. a tropical garden FOR
the experimental cultivation Of crops
suited to the seacOast and also a botan-