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Show OLIVE TREES LONG-LIVED. Olive trees are known to live for five hundreds of years. A grove of the trees, according to history, his-tory, was planted 450 years ago and the trees are still bearing olives, although they look very aged. The fruit on the trees is still in abundance and Ls of a very fine quality. The method of grinding the olives for oil and picking the fruit is peculiar. Neither the grinders nor pickers receive any wages, but they are paid on a percentage. The pickers receive about 6 per cent of the fruit picked and the grinders get about 10 per cent. The workmen then dispose of their per cent in the same way as their employers. |