Popular science monthly . The Nuts Are Stored on Board River Lighters to theNearest Port of Call for Ocean Steamers. TheyAre Turned Over with Shovels Each Day and Ventila-tors Keep a Current of Air Circulating Below Decks APOD with a diameter of from fiveto six inches, in a thick, hardwoody outer covering, containsthe so-called Brazil nut of commerce,from twenty to twenty-four ofthese seeds being closely packedin one shell. On board the ves-sels the greatest care is taken ofthe nuts. They arc turned overdaily and kept supplied with aconstant current of fresh hours of stormyweat
Popular science monthly . The Nuts Are Stored on Board River Lighters to theNearest Port of Call for Ocean Steamers. TheyAre Turned Over with Shovels Each Day and Ventila-tors Keep a Current of Air Circulating Below Decks APOD with a diameter of from fiveto six inches, in a thick, hardwoody outer covering, containsthe so-called Brazil nut of commerce,from twenty to twenty-four ofthese seeds being closely packedin one shell. On board the ves-sels the greatest care is taken ofthe nuts. They arc turned overdaily and kept supplied with aconstant current of fresh hours of stormyweather in which the ventilatorshave to be closed is suflicient toruin an entire cargo. Every pre-caution is taken to kee|) theatmosphere comfortable, forthe sensitive nut feels the slight-est change of lem[)eralure. As they begin to ripen the podsfail and are gathered by the na-tives, who, cutting the outer shell with a machete, collect the nutsand carry them in baskets to therivers on which they are transportedby canoe, lau
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