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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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VANILLA CULTURE IN PUERTO RICO 69 cooperative is allowed to advance to members 50 cents per pound of green beans received at the Plant. Nonmembers do not have this privilege. In 1944-45, $42,000 worth of cured beans were sold to a firm in Philadelphia, who paid $7.50 per pound of cured beans, "heads and tails," with 9 percent "cuts" included. Steps in curing.—The curing process should begin within about 7 days after the beans are harvested. In Puerto Rico curing operations begin in September and extend to about May. The curing process consists of essentially four steps: (1) Heating or freezing the beans
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Figure 54.—When tin is scarce, corrugated boxes are used by the cooperative in Puerto Rico for f. o. b. shipment of cured beans to Philadelphia. Six of these containers are packed in a special wooden box. The wax paper around each bundle and lining the box reduces drying of beans and the spread of mold and mites. to kill the tissues and stop life processes; (2) "sweating" the beans by drying slowly in sun or oven heat until they are flexible; (3) slow drying, usually at room temeprature until the beans have lost from 70 to 75 percent of their moisture; and (4) conditioning the beans within closed boxes at room temperature until they develop the characteristic fragrance. There are several methods of killing the green vanilla. They are: (1) Sun killing; (2) oven killing; (3) hot-water killing; (4) killing by scratching; and (5) killing by freezing. The first three methods

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  • booksubject:Orchids
  • bookpublisher:Washington_D_C_U_S_Dept_of_Agriculture
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