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THE CUBA REVIEW 



"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. 



