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Title: The Cuba review
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Yucca (Cassava) showing habit of growth. See item on this page regarding Starch Factory. THE CUBA REVIEW 29 providing, that some machine or device isintroduced for harvesting for the use of therice growers. It is useless for Cuba to thinkof competing in manj of the minor cropswithout also investigating and importingimproved machinery and methods. It mayeven in some cases be necessary to import ex-perienced help until our native labor becomesaccustomed to new methods.—Prof H. A.Van Hermann in Modern Cuba, Havana. Sr. )\Ianuel Xegreira, President of the Mer-chants Trade Unions is at the head of a move- ment in Havana to form an industrial com-pany, which shall acquire suitable lands forrice planting. Importation of American cattle intOCuba for the present is prohibited by presi-dential decree, in order to prevent thespread to the island of the foot and mouthdisease now prevalent in the States. All importations of cattle will accordinglyhave to be made from other countries.
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Cuban Cave Cutters at work in the Fields. The Woman is Holding the Knife with which the Cutting is done. 30 THE CUBA REVIEW FINE PEN PICTURES OF CUBAS UNRIVALLED SCENERY THE STORY OF THE SOUTH COAST. ITS HARBORS AND CITIES On the South coast of Oriente Province,steaming north, a tall tower marks the pointof the Holy Cross—the Santa Cruz light. Itis not one of our wise lighthouses of to-day,but one of those stately, lonely towers ofstone, smooth and unrelieved to the very top,such as we had in our childhood books, tellingof shipwrecks and deeds of heroism. It wasbuilt there a century ago by the Spanish andhas the dignity of an hidalgo as it marks theend of the Cuban archipelago of reefs andkeys and the beginning of the solid chain ofsierras that climb above 8,000 feet and runsin grandeur on beyond Santiago to dwindleaway toward Guantanamo. The same Spanish dignity was in the oldgentleman in black clothing and Panama hatcame forth from a cottage near the lighthouseto pilot the ship to

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