TOKAY GRAPES 



Photograph by Curtis & Miller 

 PACIFIC COAST FRUIT P.PLT 



"California's supremacy as a grower of the newer crops is shown all along the line. 

 Out of the nation's 6,793,000 pounds of almonds, that State grows 6,692,000 pounds; out of 

 4,150,000 bushels of apricots, it shows a production of 4,066,000 bushels; out of 35.000,000 

 pounds of figs for the entire country, 23,000,000 belong to her credit; out of the country's 

 total of 2,571,000,000 pounds of grapes, California is credited with 1,979,000,000 pounds" (see 

 text, page 79). 



turn crimson on ripening. They are then 

 picked, the pulp is taken off by machin- 

 ery, and the two husks which lie between 

 the pulp and the seeds themselves are re- 

 moved. The coffee has to be thoroughly 

 dried before the husks can be taken off, 

 and on many plantations there are whole 

 acres of concrete floors for this drying 

 process. 



When run through the machinery for 

 the removal of the husks, these latter are 

 blown away like chaff, and the coffee 

 grains are run over sieves so arranged as 

 to grade them and bag them according to 

 size, ready to be shipped to the world's 

 markets. 



PRODUCTION OP TEA 



The growing of tea is largely an Asi- 

 atic industry. The tea plant is a hardy 



evergreen shrub, growing from 12 to 15 

 feet high in its wild state, but dwarfed 

 under cultivation. It prefers a subtrop- 

 ical climate where the rainfall approxi- 

 mates 50 inches a year. After the leaves 

 are picked the tea reaches its commercial 

 state by two routes — one producing the 

 black variety of the tea and the other the 

 green. 



The leaves are first dried in the sun 

 in the case of black tea, and in pans over 

 fire in the case of green tea. In both 

 processes the leaves are next rolled until 

 soft. Black tea is next fermented, then 

 fired, and finally sorted. Green tea is 

 withered again following the rolling pro- 

 cess, sorted into bags, and then slowly 

 roasted. 



In China most of the tea gardens are 



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