Nuhou, Volume I, Number 17, 22 April 1873 — ISLAND PRODUCE, [ARTICLE]

ISLAND PRODUCE,

Buch as preserved and dried fruits ? pre«erved meats, pickies, jams, jellies, and the like ought to be important artieles of export. There is an inexhaustible .supply of ; bananas 7 pohas 7 and other fruits that grow spontaneous!y, The hanana ean be dried, and the poha ean be jammed. We are throwing away fat mutton; but we oūght to find a market for sweet eanned meal; also for corned mutton, and spiced mutton hams, than whieli you never eat anytliing more toothsome in the way of meat, imless it may be young goat or kid. If you have never paiiaken of a stew, or pottage, made out of the ribs or shoulders of a kid, say half grown, you don-t know what is the ne 2)lus ultra of delicate animal alimentatioii. The tender albuminous, oleaginous tissue melts in your moutli> tiekles your palatal aeumen, and harmonizes and satisfies your gastric economy, as a perfect savory salvation of the pliysical man. No wonder that Rebekah tempted the heart, and satisfied the appetite of Isaac, tlie old •s]iepherd king with a kid stew. Bhe could not have done better, orhave procured anything more savory; if she had had the cartes of those celebrated restaurants, the Cafe Anglais, Les Trois Freres Provencaux, or the Hawaiian Hotel to select from. Well we have plenty of tliis going to waste; aelual hecatombs of carcases pilēd up to rot and laden tlie desert air with disease. Now we propose to some of 3 r ou rancliers and farmers, and even planters who have spare time to put up some canned preserved and #iced meats, beef, mutton and goat; also eanneei and preserved fruits, and send samples to our grocers, and if we know anything about such consignment r we will take it up, advertise it, and spread tlie knowledge of it before the community gratutitously; so tliat they ean test appetizing articles of diet, forward thein to a foreign market. and tlius prepare the way for an importanf item of export.