Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-08-28 | Page 4 | Bananas Vs. Corn

BANANAS VS. CORN. ' Heretofora the limit for banana cultivation baa supposed to be 30 degrees north ud 31 degrees south of the equator. But on the warm eoast of Spain it ia said the fruit does well aa high aa the thirty-seventh parallel. That would about bring St. George, Utah, withia- the limits and central Ari-xnna Ari-xnna ought to be a great banana orchard. Humboldt Hum-boldt estimated that more real food could bo produced pro-duced on an acre of land in bananas than in any other plant that the world knows anything about But for food and drink combined we suspect that Indian corn would bear away the palm. To All the stomach nothing is mora filling than corn-bread corn-bread or hominy; for satisfying the stomach, well ask Judge Judd!