Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1920 — Spanish Fruits. [ARTICLE]

Spanish Fruits.

Among ghe various fruit crops of Spain, a prominent place must be assigned -to the fig, because as its widespread cultivation throughout the peninsula and its general use as a food product. In a number of provinces the fig leads all other' fruits ip importance. Hie dried fruit serves as food for a large portion of the poorer classes, and in yeato of great abundance It is also used for fattening pigs for the local markets.