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Riding Through Mr. Nickcrson's Orange Grove, near Bartle. 



northern vegetables and small stuff here at present, except for one's 

 own use, but good money can be made raising plantain, yams and 

 yucca, which the natives eat, and which are superior to our Irish 

 potatoes when one becomes accustomed to them, and knows how 

 to prepare them properly to eat. Bananas do not do v/ell. Coffee 

 is good, but cocoa is not profitable; two and three crops of corn 

 can be raised yearly, but the yield is light. 



CITRUS FRUITS. 



This year has opened up the eyes of many skeptics who had 

 little faith in citrus fruit groves, and the returns prove beyond a 

 doubt the big profits that are possible, and anyone with a few acres 

 of good land properlv planted and cared for until five years old, will 

 be independent. 



Some have just now reached this stage. Mr. T. R. Towns, of 

 Holguin. oft'ers for sale 3(35 days in a year grape fruit, etc., and is 

 making monthly shipments all over the world. He has no patent 

 on this, and others can with the same energy he has expended do 

 likewise, and the meaning of this is apparent. 



Bees work .365 days in a year here, and never ha\e to be fed. 

 A colony will produce from 15 to •?() gallons yearly at 50 cents a 

 gallon to say nothing of your increase and queens if you go into the 

 whole thing. Fruit trees and bees go together. The bees are good 



