THE CUBA R EVI E W 



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AGRICULTURAL MATTERS. 



Sanitation of Cocoanut Groves Essential — Retirement of Station Director J. T. 



Crawley. 



Diseased Cocoanut Trees. Director Crawley has held the post 



United States Department of Agriculture, since about six years ago and has been 



Bureau of Plant Industry, enthusiastic about his WOrk. 



'^^^SnIton! D.T Mir2T'i909. He had collected about him a corps 



To the Editor of the CUBA REVIEW: of experts, who were hard and mtelli- 



Permit me to urge you in writing any gent workers. Nearly all of these were 



letter to cocoanut planters in Cuba to a few weeks ago discharged from the 



assure them that careful cutting out of service. 



diseased trees and destroying them, in Cuba's Pineapple Exportations. 



general complete "sanitation" of the jpO^ ^908. 



grove, would more than repay any work ooi^n i,ivoc 



involved, although it might not abso- January 22,149 16,785 



lutely eradicate the disease. There are Ffb''"^'">' ^7,589 16,349 



more planters in Cuba careless of their ^iarch J6,4JU 1/1/1 



cocoanut groves than in any place I have ^pr^>\2-^^;^^,^y ;; |ig? f^^l'^ 



Very truly yours, ^ , , ..^ cot I^jcTao^ 



(Signed) JOHN R. JOHNSTpN, Total (crates ) .. . 645 ,587 639,482 



Scientific Assistant. ,. ,, . 



"Gum disease is very common in 



citrus fruits in California. An illustrated 

 Director Crawley Out. pamphlet (Bulletin No. 200) has lately 

 Josiah T. Crawley, director of the been issued by the Experiment Station, 

 Government Agricultural Station at San- Berkeley, which deals in a thorough man- 

 tiago de las Vegas, resigned May 5. ner with the causes and methods of con- 

 No reason is given. trol of this disease. 



Colonists' Homes in Cuba. Residence of Mr. L. Rose, an American settler at La Atalaya, a 

 colony on the beautiful bay of Nuevitas. La Atalaya, which means watch-tower, is the site of an 

 old sugar plantation. 



