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in the invoice. In Cuba if it be found that the actual weights of goods is more tlian /50% 

 greater than the weight given in the invoice the goods are liable to confiscation. 



General Inslructions. — The correct making out of invoices and other shipping documents 

 to Cuba and other countries, is not at all a difficult matter. All that is generally necessary- 

 is to give gross and net weight of each box or package and net weight of each article or class 

 of goods, and not bunch prices, but give prices separately. To such firms and merchants in 

 the United States who are comparatively new at the export trade it may appear a difficult 

 matter, but after a while it will be much easier. There are quite a number of firms in the United 

 States who now enjoy a prosperous trade with Cuba and who at first made all kinds of mis- 

 takes, but who are now sending their invoices and other shipping dociunents very correctly 

 and nicelv made out. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



Tropical Agriculture. By Earley Vernon Wilcox, of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 8vo. Cloth. $2.50 net. D. Appleton and Com- 

 pany, New York. 



This book is written from the standpoint 

 of the general reader, business man and agri- 

 cultural student. It deals with tropical 

 agriculture in the commercial sense, the pro- 

 duction of things to eat, wear, and use in 

 technical industries. It presents in a brief 

 form what everybody ought to know about 

 the tropics. Particular attention is given to 

 the nature, source, and commercial import- 

 ance of tropical products. The volume con- 

 tains an account of about 350 tropical pro- 

 ducts of peculiar interest and commercial 

 importance, and it presents also an intelli- 

 gible picture of animal industry in the tropics, 

 as well as of climate, soils, and economic 

 conditions. 



The author, now an Administrative As- 

 sistant in the States Relations Service, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, was for six years 

 in charge of the Hawaii Experiment Station. 

 Good general treatises on "Tropical Agri- 

 culture" exist in foreign languages, and there 

 are some large and expensive English works 

 which give a comprehensive view of the sub- 

 ject. American contributions are chiefly 

 monographs on individual crops, such as 

 bananas and rubber. Dr. Wilcox's book is 

 the first American publication to cover the 

 whole subject of the crops, cultural methods, 

 and livestock of the tropics in an authorita- 

 tive and popular style. 



The Inlernaiional Movement of Fertilizers 

 and Chemical Products Useful to Agriculture." 



Under this title the International Institute 

 of Agriculture in Rome has lately published 

 its half-yearly review on producing, trade 

 and consumption of chemical fertilizers, form- 

 ing a portion of the September number of 



the Bulletin of Agricultural and Commercial 

 Statistics. 



The 75 pages of this review include a con- 

 siderable number of statistics, some official, 

 some from other trustworthy sources. Phos- 

 phatic, Tyotash and nitrogenous fertilizers are 

 dealt with, as well as the principal chemical 

 products ^isijul to agriculture. 



Aparatos Destiladores de Agua, published 

 by Eimer & Amend, 205 Third Ave., New 

 York City. 



This booklet gives a full description of the 

 various types of apparatus for distilling water. 

 It is universally recognized that distilled 

 water is a very important factor in laboratory 

 analyses and also for other industrial opera- 

 tions, as weU as for domestic use. This appa- 

 ratus is, therefore, very important in the mod- 

 ern laboratory and in the modern industrial 

 plants. In selecting a distilling apparatus, 

 the following points should be carefully con- 

 sidered. 



1st. — -The quality of the product. 



2nd. — The economy of operation. 



Sd.^The easiness with which it may be 

 kept clean. 



4th. — -The cost of upkeep and simplicity 

 of operation. 



5th. — The durability of the apparatus. 



The Barnstead distilling apparatus, of 

 which this publication treats, is of such types 

 as may be heated by coal, natiu-al gas, gaso- 

 line or electricity, and the various sizes have 

 the capacity of producing one gallon per hoiu- 

 up to ten gallons per hour. 



Copies of this publication may be secured 

 by application to Messrs. Eimer & Amend, 

 New York City. 



HAVANA 



The Director of the Census Department 

 has stated that the census of Havana on the 

 31st of May, 1916, was 359,259. 



