Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-25 | Page 5 | Tabasco Bananas Coming in Plenty

MAY 25 1921 IT i TABASCO ABASeD BANANAS COMING IN PLENTY r I American Companies Bu Buy Up Great Cr Crop I VILLAHERMOSA OSA Tabasco Tabasco May 25 25 25 ail All the Middle West est is du dufor due for Increasing shipments of Tabasco bananas Fruit buyers for five American America n companies Predict they will ship 3 32 3 2 nS 0 bu butches buches ches this year and have hay ft as their 1922 goal The got 30 cents American Ameri Amerl- can money per bunch in 1914 f for bark bananas nas that averaged to the th e bunch In 1920 he got sot as high as CO GO cents cent I American gold per bunch Now w the price has d declined to to 4 45 cents Want Yant to beco become e a banana banana grower grower I Listen to H. H S S. S Marshall formerly o of f Winchester Va employed down here her 1 I for twenty years by several severa large arge fruit companies and now proprietor of Jf a machinery business i i Raw v land and ideally adapted for rals- rals I ling inS ing b bananas nanas can be purchased for 2 25 American money hn an hn acre To clear and plant it to bananas banana will cost another 25 Eleven months after planting yo you youcan can begin to ship bananas The cro crop is constant n One acres already plant plant- ed and d bearing T will wIIl cost 50 an acre o or I Such a farm will produce fort forty bunches of bananas a month per acre the year round That means an annual gross income at present prices of The costs of operations will not b be two-thirds two of that After the first year ar profits on ot such suc such a farm should be 40 per cent