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Show Growth of Orange Industry. It Is ft n 'ally known that Spain KUppIlcs Ameilca with most of the oranges wo eat, but few people are aware how i-noi minis tho Industry lia become. The Spanish oinngu region extends, howiver, over eastern and southern Cntiilt.nla, Valencia, Allcun te, Mine!.,. .Malaga and Seville and In pnits of Vu'et cia and Murcla tho trees now grow In fotests, tho soil of the famous Yrtlcnchin 'hiieitn," Invlshls mnnureil wild guano, being the i Idlest In ICurope lino a single full grown tree will vleld l.flOO, and al times ns many ns. I, Kill) orangea In n, season, fruit bearing beginning when the trees leaih their sixth year, nnd Increasing In-creasing until they an. twent, when degeneration iiMinlly sets In. |