Show Olive Crop in in Italy Has Much to Do With Business There Is hold gold ol In the olive sa says s 's an Italian lallan proverb and it is true that Inmany in inmany inmany many parts of Italy prosperity depends upon the success of ot the olive crop As for various allous reasons this success cannot be expected every year notes a writer in the Montreal Herald the trees are always watched with much ranch Interest and anxiety from the time of their flowering until the fruit matures Except In a few mountainous districts districts districts dis dis- olives grow everywhere in Italy which leads the world In oil production and exportation But Sicily and the neighborhood of Barl BarI contain the greatest greatest greatest great great- est number of ot trees although the best oil Is produced In slightly cooler regions regions re re- gions as for Instance In Tuscany Olive trees look very much the same the Fear jear ear round since all the leaves lea never neTer fall a at one time The flowers are small smal and white The olives are very small until toward the end of ot the summer and do not contain oil before autumn Most rost varieties of olives turn turna a dark purple when ripe In different parts of ot Italy different methods of collecting the fruit are employed employed employed em em- but generally It Is picked by hand and carried with as little bruising as possible in flat baskets to the mill mm It must be kept dry and clean and pressed at nt once otherwise It Is likely to spoil |