f4 //"MX 



in this countr\ . [wlCglTOToa tbeoostand product o1 



< ot land planted with bananas: 



Cost of clearing the land , -In!*. 



outs 

 Planting TOO sprouts <T sucker- in MI 



cultivating until ftrt crop to harvested 



Interest 'ii investment mi.- v Ml 



Total 348 75 



This ^Imitation the t:i--t \. ar. ..r probably in ten iiii.< laiit- 



intr the suckers, will \ ield T.'.n bunches i.f banana-, wlr.di ai i | M - , 

 price ol :-event\ '.nil here will jrive SV>.'. nr a net pi 



".on an in\ estincnt, with int-n-st added, of *; ,iu-h lor the 



lii.-t \-ai. For tin- -< ron. 1. ami if tin- land is jfoo.l. t.,r t wt-nt\ |U< 

 in>r \i-ars, tin- said i)aiitaliin "I !""\ard> xjuan- wili . ..liiiual 



product iat-1-onlinjr t> s<.il "t 1'rom two to tour times a> niudi as that of 

 the tirst year. The only expense after the !ir-t liai \ -t woiil.: 

 out the weeds 01: liiout sltii, and that of cutting and deli\ 



th< iruit to vessels, which would be from six to i, 

 bunoh. 



Of course tlx-re are drawbacks to this, as to almost all other ku 

 farming. No crop i.- more certain than that of banana* Th- 

 I Ix'lieve theonly .iit-mv to tin- fruit planter in Honduras is tin- north 

 wind. In tin- winter months we sometimes ha\<- li<-a\ \ ^alt--. n< i 

 which uproot the banana trees which an- not pr..ti--t.'d by hills <T by 

 forest trees, and a partial lo.-s of tin- crop is the coi:^-<|in-nc-. Hut only 

 tin- fruit suffers. Th- trc- is m-ver killt-d, ;i>-, wh-thei it is stain: 

 lymg'On the ground, new suckers will alwa\ - conn- up from tin- i< 



Th pn>\ in,-.- ot Mi -juitia has as yet -\poi t.-,| no 1 1 ml. although no 

 < th.-r part of the count ry possesses as nian\ BdVBI n- I'loduc- 



tion. Kanaiias ^i"u spontaneously, and attain the I. 



r ion on t lie margins ol all it- principal i i\ . -r-. and a (lord an inex- 

 haustible supply of food for moiike\ -. parrot^ :in ,| other wild i|. ' 

 oftheforest. I'lantain river, whii-h deri\cs its name ti,,;u theabun- 

 dance of wild banana- and plantain- which irn.u -|.ontaneoii-l\ on its 

 bank- and in its \ all-y-. i- worths of esjK'i-ial attention, o" 

 does, a I a rye and c.-itain -upplv of fruil. e-nia! to the best in t In- coun- 



'. hich I- -eellled to i,- - ,nt 1 I'olll t lie ( J o\ ernillell I 



uilK-hcail be made Jmilie-: \.lllle Tlie-e I 



- are flrst seen ab ut i mles up tin- Plantain n\er ! i -in 



nth, and I nun thence lurtlier up foi .,,iit thirty 



miles, the river. ,, M |,,,th -ides, i- almo-t one , - -nt niu-.n- banana planta- 



. - on either l.ank. u Inch -c ! i-ionall\ 

 a oonciderable dmtanc<- back into the bottom laml-. It i- ditliciilt to 



make anything like an MttflMte of the amount of frull ra 



