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small coco-nut is found in the States of Jalisco 

 and Sinaloa There are more plantations on 

 the Pacific than on the Atlantic side, but the 

 planted area in Mexico, on the whole, is insig- 

 nificant at present.. As a remarkable instance 

 of the lack of attention coco-nut cultivation 

 receives in Mexico, we can mention that the 

 handbook issued by the National Railways 

 of Mexico in 1912, entitled "Facts and 

 Figures about Mexico," hardly mentions the 

 name of coco-nut, although pages are devoted 

 to Mining and Hunting, as well as to Cattle 

 Raising, Sugar, Pineapples, Cotton and other 

 productions. Notwithstanding, we are told 

 that the Mexican Government will heartily 

 welcome English planters and afford them 

 every facility for the planting of coco-nuts, 

 and that there are assured fortunes awaiting 

 the right type of man who is willing to seize 

 such opportunities by the forelock. 



In Mexico the cattle industry is confined to no 

 particular section. Where the rains are lacking 

 for part of the year, as is the case in considerable 

 portions of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Durango 

 and Coahuila, the grass in ordinary years is 

 sufficient for grazing, but hardly for the fatten- 

 ing of the stock ; often, however, the thin stock 

 from the northern part of the Republic is fattened 

 on the haciendas of the central and southern 

 portions, and this is where the large coco-nut 

 planter would get his chance to buy lean beasts 

 and fatten them up on his richer grass lands and 



