. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 36 CROPS THAT PAY. and in many places the waste figs form an important item of their midsummer diet. In fact no cheaper food can be grown for them. This, at least, is valuable evidence of the cheapness of fig production, and the pigs and chickens are surely no worse because they are tona of such delicacies. But the foreign fig growers can teach the -aouth- ern orchardist. for here is what is done with the refuse of the hg market in Mediterranean countries: "All inferior fruit from places where first class
. Crops that pay : pecans, figs, mangoes, avocados, kumquats . Pecan; Fruit-culture. 36 CROPS THAT PAY. and in many places the waste figs form an important item of their midsummer diet. In fact no cheaper food can be grown for them. This, at least, is valuable evidence of the cheapness of fig production, and the pigs and chickens are surely no worse because they are tona of such delicacies. But the foreign fig growers can teach the -aouth- ern orchardist. for here is what is done with the refuse of the hg market in Mediterranean countries: "All inferior fruit from places where first class figs cannot be produced, finds its way to the Aus- trian 'chicory coffee' makers, or to the French distilleries, in which latter places figs are converted into fine champagne, wine, cognac and vinegar. The liquor known as annisette is made in Spain from figs, also the ardent spirit ; It is even rumored that a certain brand of Vienna coffee, famous for its fine flavor, owes its reputation entirely to an admixture of roasted figs. Here is a sug-. BY PERMISSION TEXAS FIGS IN BOXES AG'L EXPERIMENT STA. gestion for some wideawake coffee concern—fig coffee! But this is a matter for industrial enterprise rather than for the fig grower. French and English gardeners, with much care, and no little cost to over-winter their trees, have long been able to supply the markets of Paris and London with fresh figs at good profit. Should our gardeners near large cities go in for fig culture, they would at first find but small demand for the fresh product. Few Northern people know any other figs than dried figs. Of these we import yearly 11,000,000 pounds besides consuming as many pounds more. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dygert, Henry Arthur, 1856-. Philadelphia : H. A. Dygert
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