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This is a large village of a few thousand people, mainly Indians or Indian descent. The place is full of orange orchards & surrounded by sugar cane fields. It is hotter than Cuernavaca owing to its 1000 ft. less alt. The oranges here are sweet & well flavored but suffer from attacks of a fly which pierces the rind of the ripening orange & deposits from one to half a dozen or more eggs. The eggs hatch & the larvae feed on the pulp of the fruit causing it to decay & fall from the tree. The oranges of southern Pueblo (Attixco &c) suffer from this same pest.