—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 13,1957
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JAMAICA BANANAS start their ripening process enroute
to consumers in the United States and other lands. Here
boatmen load a refrigerated ship at one of the island’s
many banana ports In some areas, lighters such as these
carry the green bunches to ships anchored off-shore in
deeper waters (Jamaica Tourist)
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Staple of Jamaican Farmer
HALF WAY TREE, Jamaica — 1
To the Yankee, driving on the left hand side ot the street,
there’s a feeling of uneasiness at first. With Mitch piloting
the Prefect—a small, British Ford, this word ot warning was
almost constant. Driving rules are strict, and even with an
international driver’s license some delay is encountered in
obtaining a Jamaican permit.
But the Prefect functioned to perfection on mountain
roads, through the flatlands west of Kingston, deep into the
Grand Cayman Estates where sugar cane and bananas are
grown commercially.
Seeing a native walking along
balancing a bunch of green ban
anas on his (or her) head, per
haps a bundle of sugar cane, an
armful of stove wood, even a wash
tub filled with fruit wonders one
When asked about casualties in
this national sport, one native
perhaps it was “Sonny Boy,” the
Montego Bay boatman an
swered, “Only in joustlmg, or per
haps during the Junkanop (John
Canoe) festivals”
Every home has its goat Here
is a milk supply and often the
young kids wind up in the cook
pot It’s difficult to 'distinguish
an> farming plots among the
country homes which range
from thatched roof huts to frame
homes of monotonous architec
tme But often there are a few
banana trees, a few coconut trees,
Sugar cane is still the Number
One agricultural product in this
island, and at the time of our visit
the fields were were “caning,”
Miss Wallace explained the
stalks were taking on the divi
sions you see in corn stalks be
fore tasseling. Some wild cane
was in tassel as October opened,
and it was recalled that in Puerto
Rico in late November entire
fields were in tassel.
You might imagine bananas
and coconuts grow wild, but as
surances were given each tree is
private property. Some residents
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told there is a nine-months’ jail
term for those violating this law,
picking some one else’s bananas
Banana harvest was underway
throughout the island. At Port
Antonio rpuch activity was m evi
dence at United Fruit Co. docked j (Continued on page 14)
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its Antarctic Seas. Early in the
morning the “beep-beep” of the
tiny train indicated the future
cargo was coming to town. Na
tives trudged down the roads with
green hunches atop their heads,
in perfect balance Going price at
the moment was a shilling a hand,
vuth a minimum of nine hands ac
cepted per bunch With the shil
ling worth approximately 14 cents
U S , the producer would receive
approximately $126 for a stalk
of bananas.
It is customary here to see
youngsteis chewing on a piece
of sugar cane stalk To them it’s
candy Two schools of thought
advance from this practice, one
that it develops strong, white
teeth—while others point out the
dangers of sugar to teeth. Per
haps one might deduce the jaws
benefit most
Clumps of bamboo grow every
where, along streams, high in the
hills—and across a valley a group
of bamboo trees gives the appear
ance of gigantic green featheiy
fiends waving softly in the
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