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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Kentucky, Missouri or Montana stallions, they produce really excellent service animals, 

 especially for the saddle. About three quarters of a million are registered in the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



The breeding of mules too, for which there is always a demand in Cuba, will undoubtedly 

 prove a very profitable enterprise in the near future. With the investment of the necessary 

 capital, assisted by intelligent management, not only can Cuba furnish the local market for 

 beef cattle, horses and mules, but with her many advantages for successful stock raising, 

 there is no reaspjiwhy she shpul4npt supply a large quota to Jamaica, Bahama and adjacent 

 islands, and perhaps to the United States. 



Cuba, at the present time, is importing approximately ten million dollars worth 

 of pork and pork i roducts annually, notwithstanding the fact that this Island, 

 owing to exceptional conditions for raising hogs economically, should not only ^upply 

 the lo-al demand, but can and will, ultimately ex-port pork products to all of the nearby 

 countries bordering on the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. 



A Cuban Bui 



The royal palm, \\hich covers many of the hillsides and slopes of our long mountain chains, 

 running parallel with the coast, produces a small nut called "palmiche"' that furnishes a never 

 failing food which helps the stock-grower in raising hogs. 



I . The "palmiche," picked up by the animals at the base of the palms, if in sufficient quan- 

 tity will keep these animals in fairly good condition throughout the year. Shoats, intended 

 for market, as soon as weaned, should be turned into a field planted with sugar cane, sweet 

 potatoes, peanuts, yuca, corn, cow peas, "calabaza" or any of those food crops of which hogs 

 are fond and that produce flesh rapidly. 



The population of the Republic is two and a half millions, increasmg at the rate of about 

 seventy-five thousand per year. The demand for fresh pork in Havana is constant at from 

 8M cents to 9 cents per pound, gold, on the hoof. Hams, at wholesale, sell at 26 cents per 

 pound, and other pork products in proportion. 



Hogs breed twice a year in Cuba, and our climate, free from extreme of heat or cold, 

 enables probably a larger percentage of the young to be brought to maturity, with less care 



