Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1889 — Banana. [ARTICLE]

Banana.

The consumption of bananas has increased enormously in the United States during the last ten years, which is a good thing, as it is a healthrid and nutritious fruit and very palatable to most people. West India tnrn.shes us the most of our supplyV but the demand so far has run ahead of it an i many sugar plantations i.i the West In lies are being turned igto banana oreliar is. The bulk of the crop com< sto New York, whence it is di«tribtiiyd thiough the' c.iuniry. We buy ovty *i.' <M <•“> a .V'nr, irom Jamaica; yet there ori- a hundred' other places raising them au.t ship, tig them to our market