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Show B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Pineapples weighing 20 pounds are common in the New Hebrides islands is-lands in the South Pacific, reports the Associated Press. German school children have one or two days a week leave from school in order to collect strawberry straw-berry and raspberry leaves and camomile flowers for the production of a tea substitute. One of the great Mayan crops it Middle America is manihot, or tapi oca, made from the starchy rooi yucca. Centuries ago the Maya: learned how to grate the root anc j squeeze the pulp in a basketry pres: and thus remove the toxic juice ; how to press the pulp into cakes anc heat them until all the remaininj volatile poison was driven out. Th j end product was cassava bread. |