. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. TH E CUBA REVI E W 29 AGRICULTURAL MATTERS. Cocoanut Palm Yield —Fruit Packing for Export — An Ingenious Fertilizer Distributor. Cocoanut Palm Yields. A good cocoanut tree should yield an average of 100 nuts per year, and under favorable conditions 200 have been ob- tained. In Porto Rico, however, a re- turn of sixty-five nuts per tree is prob- ably about the average figure. This low return emphasizes the general want of care and attention from which the in- dustry is suffering. The cocoanut palm will continue in bearing for so long as seventy or eighty
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. TH E CUBA REVI E W 29 AGRICULTURAL MATTERS. Cocoanut Palm Yield —Fruit Packing for Export — An Ingenious Fertilizer Distributor. Cocoanut Palm Yields. A good cocoanut tree should yield an average of 100 nuts per year, and under favorable conditions 200 have been ob- tained. In Porto Rico, however, a re- turn of sixty-five nuts per tree is prob- ably about the average figure. This low return emphasizes the general want of care and attention from which the in- dustry is suffering. The cocoanut palm will continue in bearing for so long as seventy or eighty years. During the early years of its growth, catch crops of various kinds, as provision crops, etc., may be planted between the trees or, bet- ter still, leguminous plants, as cowpeas or velvet beans. In planting, select only fine, ripe seed nuts, the produce of healthy, well de- veloped trees, of good bearing capacity. The ripe nuts are first set out at dis- tances of one foot from each other in holes two feet deep, and with about two inches of the surface of the nut ex- posed. The seed bed should be kept moist, but not wet. After a period of from four to six months the young seed- lings can be transplanted. They should be set thirty feet each way and the soil around the young trees should be mulched with leaves. The cocoanut palm responds well to cultivation and applications of manure. Green manuring is frequently recom- mended, and by growing crops of beans between the trees and digging the vege- tation into the ground growth is consid- erably hastened. They bear transplant- ing well, and if the young trees do not appear to be flourishing they may be taken up, some manure and trash worked into the hole, and the trees replanted. The period at which the cocoanut palm begins to bear fruit varies from five to ten years, depending largely upon the location and the care given to it.—Bar- bados Agricultural News. Citrus Fruits for Export. The best months to export citrus frui
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