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Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 7

Nearly three-quarters of the coffee consumed in the worlrl is produced in the State of San Paulo, Brazil, In that State alone there are now nearly 700,000,000 full, bearing coffee trees, although the coffee plant was only introduced to San Paulo about a century and a-balf ago. John Gough, the blind botanist, who lout bis eight when about two years old from smallpox, knew by the touch, taste, and smell evervl plant, within 20 miles of his home. He could argue with astonishing accuracy on the construction of the eye and the nature of light and colore. Bands of schoolboys in the agricultural areasof the Karat Mountains, Austria, striving to keep down the plague of locusts, have captured 11 railway waggon loads. The number of locusts which have been converted from a pest into a valuable food for farm stock is~estimated at 45,000,000.