Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1918 — Nature Not to Be Thwarted. [ARTICLE]

Nature Not to Be Thwarted.

About 200 years ago the Dutch destroyed every nutmeg tree In the Moluccas, and planted the trees In their own possessions, so that they might have a monopoly of the trade. Despite this action, however, the Islands were constantly being restocked. For a long time the thing was a mystery, but finally it was solved. The doves of that region are of large size and readily swallow , the seeds of the nutmeg tree. They traverse wide stretches of sea and land in a few hours, and they deposit the seeds, not only uninjured, but better suited for germination by the heat and moisture of the bird’s system.