Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview17muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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16 THE CUBA REVIEW
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"Fordson" tractor working in cane field, Ingenio Rosario. (Courtesy of Mr. Martial Facio, Havana.) much heavier tonnage of plant cane. One large company today hauls seven per cent, cane forty kilometers, while this tonnage could be secured within a radius of six kilometers of the mill, at a live per cent, cost, if these older lands were properly utilized. The outfit for such work should comprise a large tractor, a mouldhoard gang of four sixteen-inch bottoms or six bottoms of fourteen inches, a disc harrow of the rigid style, a tooth cultivator and a timber drag, size about fourteen by thirteen feet. The soil should be worked down as soon as possible after a heavy rain has fallen, using the harrow followed by the cultivator and drag, and finally the seed furrow should lie opened and the planting done at a period of good moisture content. Fieldmen should be taught the use of litmus in the test for soil acidity, and where the soil tested sweet or only slightly acid to an increasing depth the plowing should be proportionately deeper.

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