The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-06-03
Unions OF BANANAS
In SATISFY AMERICA
War a. MILLION PUNCHES
ConIIGHT INTO THE UNITED
PKo.TFS HUGE INDUSTRY.

,;ov the shade of your own
--ee and eat of its fruit, in the
''', where the bana lives, is TAR
Flnu Enterprise than IN have your
/ =. % ~ peach tree in our own land;
pc a W. to so common thing
CONF conn., own potato patch would be
you' Narrower. if you live in ba-
PER Ind YOU can pick your bananas
'lla a ia~a around. No fruit in the world
/ yea : staple food as the banana,
'uln lows " so luxuriously with so lit
lne and no general crop, not even
ca ,,.,elds so much actual food val
Ca 20 +he acre Of land,
10 wear 100000 punches OF ba,,
Ia. 1as' we're brought into the United
la' vet only a generation or two
Pc D., fr,it was a great luxury and
, o,rrrcbased by the piece. Only the
~ nfople bought bananas by the
pee. oni nobody except the store
IN, ever owned bunch. One OF
p a.ri;est shipments was in 1871,
L. about uoECh
en fought into Boston by schoon-
II S.o ~ ~ Jamaica. Now almost every
-, o +be wear a big ship docks at
vort city or New Orleans with
" w. 81 from 10000 to 10000 bunch
q T = iruit was at first looked upon
i" curiosity and no one dreamed
y would soon become a really
o-+.c. factor in the food supply
the country
Foundation of Enormous Industry
rbo banana is a wonderful shipper,
lb ,,I the most remarkable OF any
,bable iruit. 1t is picked or rather
Il moi only quite green but never
20 than two-thirds grown, yet its
h natures and ripens perfectly and
solesoInclv. although this last stage
;ts career is frequently 5000 miles
where il grew and in climate
81 degrees colder. While the COM
rec IN bananas, which is principally
,atter OF transportation, is OF recent
ans;on there is perhaps no other
irl plant in the world. 1t has been
tiya+ed from the earliest historical
es Egyptian and Asyrian carvings
Nv the esteem in which the banana
held several thousand years be-
the Christian era and when Alex
or the Great invaded India he
nd large banana plantations in the
Ter valley OF the Indus.
ndia IS thought to be its original
he Al the loot of the Himalayas,
re as the fruit of knowledge" it
been cultivated since earliest an
s Etv. Whether we have any native
kerican bananas is a question. Their
lin in the New World is as doubt
as the origin of the American In
The banana is stated to have
h brought first to America from
in early in the sixteenth century,
planted in the Island of Santo
hinge. whence it spread rapidly
bughout the surrounding islands
the mainland OF Mexico and Cen
America. This statement, how
has never been verified, and
authorities include the banana
bng the staple food supplies OF the
Is and the Aztecs before the arrl-
Of the Spaniards.
he banana today is the foundation
IN enormous industry; the trade in
es the building of many hundred
s Of railroads, the operation OF
BIT fleets OF steamships, and the
ntenance OF a far reaching organi-
on covering a generous part OF the
les OF the world. In still other
S OF the torrid zone where the eX-
trade has only slightly peneterat-
the growth of bananas for local
includes broad belt which COM
ely encircles the earth.
Banana Trees Grow Rapidly.
bur bananas in the United States
principally from the Central
erlcan countries, from southern
Fico to Panama, tapping over into
pmbla and reaching out into the
Indies. In the province OF Ii
alone, in Costa RIGA, some TO-