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Show On a Banana Farm. It Is estimated that a single bunch of bananas coming from South America passes through not less than 12 palr3 of hands before It is finally restored aboard a ship en route to a northern market. As soon as the tree is cut and a large bunch detached It la swung on to tho head of a native laborer and Btarted to tho collecting point on the plantation. Long lines of natives may bo seen filing from tho depths of tho banana forest, bearing the bunches of fruit. When the bunches are all gathered they are put on a car and carried to the wharf, where thy are unloaded and again passed through a chain of hands to tho ship's hold. |