. The international industries mining and forest bank ... rticle ofexport of Parana,the next in orderbeing pine andhardwoods. Theexports of bothproducts represent$8,000,000 per is a product little known in Europe; its principal and increasingconsuming markets are the River Plate countries, Uruguay, Argentinaand Chile. It is used as a substitute for coffee and the Chinese tea,proving more economical, more wholesome and nutritious than is preferred by the natives and foreigners in those countries, and itsuse has become a national custom. The extraordinary good qualities of the
. The international industries mining and forest bank ... rticle ofexport of Parana,the next in orderbeing pine andhardwoods. Theexports of bothproducts represent$8,000,000 per is a product little known in Europe; its principal and increasingconsuming markets are the River Plate countries, Uruguay, Argentinaand Chile. It is used as a substitute for coffee and the Chinese tea,proving more economical, more wholesome and nutritious than is preferred by the natives and foreigners in those countries, and itsuse has become a national custom. The extraordinary good qualities of the Brazilian Tea or Mate con-sist in that its leaves can be boiled and strained for use also, theconcoction drunk like tea; in such condi- | tions it nourishes, it is aromatic and med-icinal. A? - * The difference between the propertiesof coffee and Chinese tea, when comparedwith Mate or Brazilian Tea, consist inthat, whereas the first two, are only aro- SPECIMEN OF MATE TREES (CENTRAL PARANA) a value of about STOREHOUSE CONTAINING MATE LEAVESIN THE WOODS. VIEW OF THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER OF PARANA (MATE region) matic and stimulating to the nervous sys-tem, in the case of Mate, the effect is asedative for nervousness and is at the sametime nourishing and medicinal, since itpossesses certaindiuretic proper-ties which renderits use wholesomethrough its parti-cular action onthe kidneys. As this tree is
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