HONDUE 16 



FRUITS AM I HI i \DE. 



Of fruits Honduras produces a large variety, \\hieh find 

 ready sale at home, as well as in the markets of other , 



I among these in commcn-ial. as in food vali.- anas. 



Of these there are several kind-, tin- mott 

 platano or plantain. All through the country ti M im- 



portant part of th- daily food of the people. Along the : 

 coast of the Republic quantities of bananas and plantains are 



n. principally for the market* of the 1'niti d Stale-. \\ jihjn 

 the last ten year- the iralVu- in this fruit and otlx 

 has grown so largely that three lines of sterner- I'M 

 employment in carrying the ercjs to il:e North. Vet all this 

 trade has been, and is now confined to that part of the coast 

 beginning seventy miles from the western boundaiy of the ( 

 and extending to Guatemala. 



A plan often recommended by planter- in Hoi 

 Inuaiiaor plantain sprouts fifteen feet apart, making 1!'. 

 the acre. Each of these plants will yield a bunch of fruit in 

 about nine months after planting. These sell on tin 



- ranging at dill'erent time- from IK 



.although rarely, for $1, and even for sl.iT> ea< h. Thi- 

 givetfiom $78 to $940 for the first crop from : that 



tin yield is larger, as two to four of the young -pri-nt- which 

 sprinir up around the paren' 



imatex as to the cost of planting and car 



tion-f hanaiias or of plantain- differ in variou- ; pieal 



America. In some hu -alitie- in Central and untie- 



tems < inelit f.llo\\t(l liy m:i!i\. the co.-t is from > 



$25 a maii/ana of 10,000 squat* !" tin- 



latest and i that \\liii li u:i- \ tinted 



1 

 ragua. It -tale- that it- e-timate\\a- pulili-ln d to 



jilllilic liy lilt- ( 'icfuf the Mi-(|Uilo I ; '. hieh 



latter estiin heiiift "pessimistic, 



exaggerated, extravagant, and calculated to mi-l -ad tin pul 



