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Show FACTS Aboot FOOD You May Not Know CUBA is expected to produce more than 3,000,000 tons of sugar this year, exceeding ex-ceeding its previous best crop by 500,000 tons. Every square mile of the sea is estimated esti-mated to contaiu 120.000.000 fish. The pineapple Is a solidified blossom, say the horticultural experts, aud it is pineapple pine-apple blossom time from June to October iu Hawaii. There 7,000 acres are given over to the cultivation of this fruit. Iu li14 Hawaii exported a million cases of canned pineapple and 100,000 cases of the juice. Coconuts generally prow at the edge of seas or rivers, and many of the nuts as they become ripe fall into the water. The nuts are covered with a thick husk, which has a waterproof covering, so that they will float. As they Goat, writes a naturalist, natural-ist, the three eyes, which are all at one end of the nut, are always on top. Once in the water, nature goes to work. From one of ttao eyes there comes a shoot that sends forth broad leaves that act as sails. The wind catches these sails and wafts the coconut coco-nut on a journey that may be many miles long. As it sails the other two eyes send out roots, which at first grow among the fl hers of th e wood y husk. T n time the coconut is swept on another shore, perhaps on another island. The roots embed themselves them-selves in the soft earth, the sail becomes the trunk, and very shortly a thrifty coconut coco-nut palm Is growing where none grew before. |