The tree yields only one crop a year, the yield under normal conditions being about 300 pounds to the acre. The average consumption is estimated at 11,000,000 pounds per year.
There are a number of varieties of Cloves resembling each other in appearance, but vastly different in pungency and flavoring value.
The slender stems bearing the closed buds have, to a limited degree, the aromatic clove flavor, and as they sell for a very small fraction of the cost of Cloves, are frequently powdered and used for reducing the cost of Powdered Cloves, at the expense of quality and of common honesty.
McCormick & Company do not import, buy or sell Clove stems. Their Bee and Banquet Brands Cloves, whole or ground, are carefully selected for superior quality.
PRATT INSTITUTE
BROOKLYN, N.Y.
SCHOOL OF HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE AND ARTS
Isabel Ely Lord, Director
May 22, 1913.
Mr. W. M. McCormick, McCormick & Co., Baltimore, Md.
Dear Mr. McCormick: I have just received the report of the instructors who had charge of testing your products, and I am glad to tell you that it is a very favorable one. The report is that no one of the flavorings and spices was found unsatisfactory, and that the Orange Tipped Pekoe Tea was especially praised. We shall be very glad to know if you put your products on sale in New York, as in that case we shall certainly use them. Yours very truly, Isabel Ely Lord.
