Identifier: successfulfarmin00gardrich (find matches)
Title: Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Gardner, Frank D. (Frank Duane), 1864-1963
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : Smithsonian
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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zil nuts, but in the main are triangular in form. They are of a lightbuff color, irregularly grooved lengthwise, and have a close-fitting cork-likeshell which encloses a single, delicately flavored kernel of fine texture. Both the pili and the Paradise nuts are like the Brazil nut in that theirtropical natures apparently preclude any likelihood of their ever becomingcommercially important in any part of the United States proper. The culture of the cocoanut, together with the drying and shippingof its dried flesh or copra, forms one of the leading industries throughoutall tropics. The cocoanut produces the worlds most important nutfood supply. To some extent the cocoanut palm is grown in southernFlorida, but thus far more largely as an ornamental and a curiosity thanfor commercial purposes. During the winter season cocoanuts are locallyin lively demand as souvenirs among the tourists, who place postage andthe addresses of northern friends on the smooth outer surfaces of the thick (499)
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Schley Pecan Tree.In its seventh year and beginning to bear. Cairo, Ga. (500) NUTS AND NUT CULTURE 501 husks and send the nuts through the mails. The expense of removing thehusk from the nut has thus far made commercial cocoanut growing in thiscountry in competition with the cheap labor of the tropics practically outof the question. Nevertheless, it is not unlikely that the devising of specialmachinery will soon overcome this problem, and that a more or less thrivingindustry will develop in the marshy borders of southern Florida. A fewcommercial cocoanut plantings recently set may be found off the Floridacoast from Miami and near Cape Sable in Monroe County; but it appearsaltogether unlikely that the growing of cocoanuts will ever be of importanceto American farmers outside of the southern parts of Florida, Texas andCalifornia. The cashew nut likewise is of tropical nature. Trees of this speciesare rarely seen in the United States except in experimental plantings inFlorida and in Cali

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