Identifier: cubareviewbullet05muns (find matches)
Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (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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tates newspaper press on Cuba will be found on page 15.Also comment on the cigarmakers strike, which threatens to seriously injure agreat industry, follows on page 16. One of the most beautiful plantations in Cuba illustrated on page 17. Agriculturaland American colony notes will be found on page 18. General Notes begin on page 19 and run to page 24. There is an illustrated descriptionof two weeks on the Isle of Pines, together with a note regarding important publicworks from the same section. Rubber in Cuba. A nev^f fan in use in India is described and illustrated. An interestingillustration is that on page 23 of a picnic of School No. 35 of Camaguey. Sugar. An interesting chart will be found on page 26, showing the receipts and theconsumption of centrifugal sugar at four ports of the United States. It indicatesall too clearly that a forced market is the cause of the low prices. Willett & Grayhave some very interesting comment on (his subject. THE NUMBER IS PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.
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THE CUBA REVIEW AND BULLETIN ALL ABOUT CUBA Copyright, 1907, by the Munsbn Steamship Line. Volume V. JULY, 1907. Number 8. A TYPICAL CUBAN FARM. LIBRARY NEW YO.l^y;BOTANIC a; Its Characteristic Neglect and its Great Possibilities Under Expert Treatment Described. The Conditions Exactly Those of Hundreds of Other Cuban Estates. BY C. F. BAKER, ESTACION AGRONOMICA, SANTIAGO DE LAS VEGAS, CUBA. A recent visit to a magnificent finca, near Bainoa, on the United Railway, made pos-sible through the kindly hospitality of the owner, furnishes a most illuminating text onthe present condition of certain branches of Cuban agriculture, and the possibilities inlarge part yet lying dormant. This finca is one of the very best types of Cuban farms-rich soil, beautiful surroundings, and broad acres,—all combining to make it what it i?to-day—the valued heirloom of an old family. There are countless fine trees of all thenative fruits. The soil is of the red type, characteristic of the Partidos tobacc

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