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Show A Bohaek Plantation. The work of gathering and drying the buhooh blossoms is in full blast at the buhacb plantation. About one hundred men are . scattered through the fields picking the blossoms. As fast as they are picked they are stowed away about two inches deep In wooden boxes, the boxes being 2, feet square. Wagons are employed in hauling the boxes to the drying house. Probably it is called a drying house because it is alongside of the spot where the drying is done. Certainly Cer-tainly no artificial beat is needed at the bnhach plantation to dry anything at this time of the year. The sun's rays come down within the inclosure of big poplar trees with a force that makes it pleasant to stand from under. The trays are allowed to lie there, the blossoms being stirred up by a force of men until they (the blossoms) are fairly cured. Afterward they are placed on a large platform about sixty feet square, where they remain until dry, and then are sent to the reduction works, where they are ground into dust This is done by men who are proof against sneesing, otherwise it could not be done at all. Whether or not it makes flies and mosquitoes sneeze we don't know, but it is certainly the best preventive pre-ventive in use to keep those inRecta at a distance. Merced (Cal.) Star. |