Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE CHIRIQUI VOLCANO GETTING THE BANANAS TO MARKET 297 haps the most technical work of the cultivator is toselect the suckers so that the plantation will notbring all its fruit to maturity in one season, butrather yield a regular succession of crops, monthafter month. It was interesting to learn from arepresentative of the United Fruit Company atBocas del Toro, that the banana has its dull season—not in pro-duction but inthe demand forit which fallsoff heavily inwinter, thoughone would sup-pose that sum-mer, when ourown fruits arein the market,wou

Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE CHIRIQUI VOLCANO GETTING THE BANANAS TO MARKET 297 haps the most technical work of the cultivator is toselect the suckers so that the plantation will notbring all its fruit to maturity in one season, butrather yield a regular succession of crops, monthafter month. It was interesting to learn from arepresentative of the United Fruit Company atBocas del Toro, that the banana has its dull season—not in pro-duction but inthe demand forit which fallsoff heavily inwinter, thoughone would sup-pose that sum-mer, when ourown fruits arein the market,wou Stock Photo

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Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE CHIRIQUI VOLCANO GETTING THE BANANAS TO MARKET 297 haps the most technical work of the cultivator is toselect the suckers so that the plantation will notbring all its fruit to maturity in one season, butrather yield a regular succession of crops, monthafter month. It was interesting to learn from arepresentative of the United Fruit Company atBocas del Toro, that the banana has its dull season—not in pro-duction but inthe demand forit which fallsoff heavily inwinter, thoughone would sup-pose that sum-mer, when ourown fruits arein the market, would be theperiod of itseclipse. While mostof the fruitgathered in the neighborhood of Bocas del Toro is grown onland owned and tilled by the Company, thereare hundreds of small individual growers withplantations of from half an acre to fifty acresor even more. All fruit is delivered alongthe railway lines, and the larger growers. l^t^^^K^nariJiin^-

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