. Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics . Young Avocado Tree in Fkuit, Trapp Vaiukiy. Sandersha Mango Tree in Bearing FRUITS AND NUTS 93 beefsteak or wheat bread. The absurdity of such claims issufficiently apparent when one remembers that the fresh ba-nana contains 75 per cent, of water and that a comparison ofthe composition of the dry substance of one product with an-other product in a fresh condition is obviously unfair. Manyexaggerated statements as to the yield of bananas as comparedwith the y
. Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics . Young Avocado Tree in Fkuit, Trapp Vaiukiy. Sandersha Mango Tree in Bearing FRUITS AND NUTS 93 beefsteak or wheat bread. The absurdity of such claims issufficiently apparent when one remembers that the fresh ba-nana contains 75 per cent, of water and that a comparison ofthe composition of the dry substance of one product with an-other product in a fresh condition is obviously unfair. Manyexaggerated statements as to the yield of bananas as comparedwith the yields of potatoes and wheat have also crept into theliterature of this subject. For example, in a recent book onbananas, which is perhaps the fullest and most satisfactorydiscussion thus far presented of the whole subject from anagricultural and botanical standpoint, the statement was madethat the total yield of food material produced by bananas is240,000 pounds per acre. The utter impossibility of such ayield is apparent from the fact that the average number ofbunches of bananas per acre per year is from 230 to 240. Inorder to secure a total yield of 240,000 pounds per acre
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