. The international industries mining and forest bank ... ies, and are of the same race. There is no other example in theworld of any other people I | who have devel- oped, produced more wealth § from ag- riculture _ Jk ^^ S^k a, during those in Northern n CENTRAL STATION OF THE SAO PAULO RAILWAY CO. AT SAO PAULO _p •_! The State of Parana formed part of the State of Sao Paulo up tofifty years ago. With the exception of the pine and the Yerba Mate (Brazilian Tea)and the fields under cultivation, the nature of the products is identical inboth states. Sao Paulo possesses lands for the cultivatio
. The international industries mining and forest bank ... ies, and are of the same race. There is no other example in theworld of any other people I | who have devel- oped, produced more wealth § from ag- riculture _ Jk ^^ S^k a, during those in Northern n CENTRAL STATION OF THE SAO PAULO RAILWAY CO. AT SAO PAULO _p •_! The State of Parana formed part of the State of Sao Paulo up tofifty years ago. With the exception of the pine and the Yerba Mate (Brazilian Tea)and the fields under cultivation, the nature of the products is identical inboth states. Sao Paulo possesses lands for the cultivation of coffee which areunrivaled anywhere else in the world; they are exceedingly fertile andof a surprising productiveness. The area which is to-day under culti-vation is: 750,000 acres, which yield 575,503 tons of coffee, worth 130,750,688dollars gold. Coffee is still to be considered a very expensive product for universal consumption; and even if its actual cost could be reduced by 50 per cent, and its output doubled, even then it would A PLANTATION. VIEW OF COFFEE GATHERING still be beyond the reach of the poorclasses in Europe. In view of whichSao Paulo and Parana hold out largepossibilities for the exploitation and ^|cultivation of their fertile lands and put 1them in a state of yielding abundantlythis product whose universal dealing is atpresent practically controlled by the Stateof Sao Paulo. Experience has shown repeatedly that with a coffee plantation two years oldwell-directed and methodical work, there is no other product from thesoil which yields better returns to the planter than coffee, as we shalldemonstrate by the following description. Coffee.—The State of Sao Paulo alone produces more than two-thirds
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