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COCO-NUT CULTIVATION AND 

 POSSIBILITIES IN PANAMA: 



WITH SOME NOTES ON CATCH-CROPS AND 

 SUBSIDIARY INDUSTRIES. 



EXCEPT for vastness of area, as is obtainable 

 in Malaya and the Philippines, the coast line 

 of the Isthmus of Panama has always appealed 

 to us as being one of the best centres, if not 

 actually the best, for carrying on the " cult of the 

 coco-nut " on a large scale. Panama, we are 



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told, lies outside the hurricane belt of the West 

 Indies, owing partly to the peculiar twist in the 

 shape of the country, which causes a portion 

 of the Pacific (i.e., the west) coast of Panama 

 to be further east than a portion of the Atlantic 

 or the eastern shore is. It is this twist which 

 causes the Isthmian Canal to run north-west and 

 south-east instead of from east to west as many 

 people would, offhand, say it did. Being thus 

 sheltered enables the coco-nut palms to get 

 plenty of wind, which they like, but not enough 

 to break them or blow them down, even on 

 the Atlantic side, where the winds in the winter 

 are decidedly strong. A good proof of the 

 absence of wind-mischief, we are told, lies in 

 the fact that on the islands dotting Panama 



