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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Copjri^ltt by LiKlcr\\ uuct ^ Lnder LOADING BANANAS IN PANAMA (Bananas are placed in canoes at Gatun, on the Chagres River, in the Canal Zone, for shipment) These are the future hands of the bunch, so Anything under this minimum is discarded by ancalled on account of their resemblance to those inspector at the wharf. Bunches of 17 hands aremembers when held in a certain position. It is by exceptional, and those of this abnormal size aremeans of these hands that the fruit is classified for not usually shipped, owing to the inconvenienceshipping. A bunch of 9 hands or over of storing in the steamers hold. . . .(the average being 10 to 12) constitutes The plants grow to a height of from 15a first; between 7 and 9, a second. to 35 feet, spreading in all direc-
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102 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS tions.. . . The banana plantation yields a con-tinuous harvest for years without replanting.Some that are fifty years old are yielding to-day as prolifically as in their jhird or fourthyear. In 1899 banana trading was organized onmodern commercial lines, and since thenmore than 125 vessels, specially built for thetrade, have been plying between New Yorkand the tropical fruit belt. Bananas grownfor the market are usually planted along theborders of navigable waters; and in large-•producing countries, as Costa Rica, extensiverailway systems to facilitate the shipping ofthe fruit have been built. The fruit is cut bymeans of long lances with broad steel blades,and the stalk of the plant is half severed ata point about 8 feet from the ground. Theweight of the fruit causes the top of the plantto bend slowly to the earth, where the bunch is cut from the stem by a stroke of themachete. The loaded train is rushed to theport, where the steamer is waiting for

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