Friday Farming. September 13, 1919. Gum and Global Commerce

Men with barge-loads of bundled blocks of chicle in Belize Harbor.  Scientific American, September 13, 1919.

Odd to think of in context.  Chicle is a constituent of chewing gum. And it grows in the tropics.  Here, in 1919, we see that already there was a global trade in agricultural products.

Of course, there had been for centuries, even millennia. Which makes pondering the cost of things, interesting.