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Title: Vanilla culture in Puerto Rico
Identifier: CAT31289489 (find matches)
Year: 1948 (1940s)
Authors: Childers, Norman Franklin, 1910-
Subjects: Vanilla; Orchids
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Figure 4.—The relative production of vanilla by country is shown on the basis of average figures from available data in table 1. Islands in the West Indies have been magnified, but not the black circles. The figures indicated may vary considerably from year to year and, therefore, serve only as an approxi- mate index of the relative importance of each country in world production. Note that vanilla is produced within an area 25° above and below the Equator. Future prices are bound to fluctuate with the supply and demand for vanilla. The lowest recorded price for vanilla on the United States market was $1.90 in 1930 and the highest price was $14 in 1941. The average price for vanilla over 45 years, from 1900 to 1945, in- clusive, was slightly over $2 a pound. However, it could hardly be recommended that the grower raise only vanilla when prices are high, and discontinue growing it when they are low. A diversified farm, rather than one restricted to one or two crops, is usually a better busi- ness proposition in the long run where several crops such as coffee, tobacco, bananas, possibly vegetables, bay trees, and similar crops are maintained, thus enabling the grower to quickly stress one or the other, depending upon the market situation. A practice similar to this has

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