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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...pound for bananas as to pay 10c per pound for five kinds of dried fruits. One pound of dried banana product is cheaper at 47c than an average one-pound can of vegetables generally used in the country at a cost of 20c. The United States consumed about 40,000,000 bunches of bananas last year and the trade is rapidly increasing. The banana, to be successful and perfect in size and flavor, requires about 100 inches of rainfall per annum. Philadelphia parties are offering to put in a banana-drying plant in any town or on any plantation that will guarantee 100 bunches daily, taking all the fruit that can be delivered. The evaporated or dried fruit is toasted and ground and used as coffee. The beverage is pronounced a most delicious substitute for coffee, and when properly made only the constant coffee drinker can tell the difference. There is a demand greater than the supply for dried banana, for many uses, for making mince meat for bakers and confectioners uses. It is claimed by parties now in the business of drying bananas, on plantations, that there is a profit of about $200.00 to $400.00 per acre in the business. As the dried fruit product can be shipped at any time, at nominal cost for transportation, and as the drying outfit is a simple affair, it is evident that small plantations could handle a drying plant successfully, on the plan adopted by creameries and fruit-drying plants in the United States. The importation of bananas, fresh and dried, into the United States during the past five years was: 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 $5,665,588 $5,877,835 $6,550,186 $7,307,437 $8,541,156 ORANGES AND LEMONS. In 1866 California shipped 150,000 boxes, or 500 carloads of oranges, and lemons. The crop of 1901 and 1902 was 16,387 carloads, or 6,000,000 boxes, about 85 per c...
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