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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Spineless Cactus Farm, Cendoj a. Santiago. 

 An excellent specimen showing the original 

 slab and the numerous sprouts which will 

 be used as nursery stock. 



Spineless Cactus l-arni. <!'endoya, Santiago. 



Rows of voung plants showing the distance 



between slabs when planted. 



Spineless Cactus, grown on land worthless for any other food crop, at $10 per ton amoimts to 

 $250 per acre, or $25,000 as the value of the.product of three waste caballerios or 100 acres, if it 

 proves to be the food claimed and if the stock will continue to eat it. 



Only three years ago, every spineless cactus plant in the world was growing on a quarter 

 of an acre of ground in the experimental nurseries of Luther Burbank, at Santa Rose, California. 

 During the recent World's Fair in San Francisco, attention was called to the marvellous work 

 accomplished by Burbank in plant life, and especially to the wonderous promise of his Spineless 

 Cactus. This plant is now successfully grown in California, Florida and Cuba, and it is the 

 intention of Cuban growers to use it locally and if necessary to ship it commercially as food to 

 the Argentine and South American markets. 



Disinterested parties in Cuba say the stock will not eat the cactus as food, also that under 

 certain conditions it will revert to the native spiney form, but it seems good logic to suppose that 

 the Spineless is a distinct species which can be propagated indefinitely, especially from cuttings, 

 and that it will no more revert to some other type than will corn or wheat. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



Bolelin de Minas, January, No. 2.— This 

 publication is issued by the Department of 

 Agriculture. This paper has a very full ac- 

 count of the geological survey which was 

 made in Cuba in 1901 by representatives of 

 the Geological Survey of the United States, 

 and it gives a great deal of information in re- 

 gard to the geological situation of Cuba. 



A large portion of this issue of the magazine 

 is devoted to information in regard to the 

 copper mines of Cuba. 



This number also has two charts in colors 



which give much information in regard to the 

 geological formation of the Island. 



Philadelphia Year Book, published by the 

 Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. — -This 

 gives an interesting description of industrial 

 Phihidelphia in all its aspects. It describes 

 the many industries and gives detailed in- 

 formation about the hundreds of articles 

 manufactured in the mills and factories of the 

 city. Philadelphia has been called the 

 world's greatest workshop and produces 

 more varieties of manufactured goods than 

 any other city in the world. 



