Salt Lake Herald | 1893-12-07 | Page 5 | Home of the Pineapple

Home ot the Pineapple A group of five small keys lying off the extreme southerncoast of Florida is now the principal pineapple producing produc-ing district of the world Less than 700 acres altogether are here devoted to the cultivation of this fruit but from this area 4500000 pineapples have been shipped to New York in a single year The plant is propagated from suckers or slips and 10000 maybe may-be planted to the acre twothirds of which will bear fruit so that if a dollar dol-lar a dozen could be realized the crop would be a lucrative one A field of pineapples raised from slips will bear for five years though after the second year the yield steadily decreases A field planted with suckers only yields for two years After this the land seems exhausted and its strength must be renewed with fertilizers and I by growing other crops while plantations planta-tions of pineapples are made in another an-other fieldYouths Companion I