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may increase shipping facilities so as to 
bring a larger amount of the lesser known 
tropical fruits into the Northern markets. 
But if trade and shipping conditions 
i 
should continue for a number of years 
as they have been in the past you will 
undoubtedly have to pave the \Vay as 
you did with citrus fruits and pineapples, 
and as you have later done with mangoes 
and avocadoes. Of course after you cre¬ 
ate a demand the tropics will help to sup¬ 
ply it as they have done in the past. 
