Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1920 — First Canned Pineapples, [ARTICLE]

First Canned Pineapples,

It was to the discovery of the possibilities of a trade In canned pineapples that the great pine-farming industry in the Far East is due. Taro Englishmen, at Singapore, saw the suitability of the fruit for canning. Its shape was just right; it could easily be grown to a uniform sise, and it was in great demand in countries where it would not grow out of doors. The trade was soon taken over entirely by the Industrious Chinese and has for a long time been one of their staple exports. In many of the warmer parte of China, miles of fields may be seen regularly and neatly planted with the pine. It is z Invariably multiplied by suckers from the root