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the present time but tew experiments have been 

 made with it. 



On President Menocal's farm, some eight miles 

 from Havana, a splendid stand of this grass has 

 been made and several crops cut the first year. 

 Inocculation of the soil seems to be the only 

 requirement to make this excellent forage thrive 

 on the Island. 



The Government experimental station, at San- 

 tiago de las Vegas, has succeeded in introducing 

 several new grasses on the heavy clay soils of 

 that neighborhood. 



Water is available in almost any part of the 

 Island, in the rivers and small streams. Wells 

 may be sunk and made to produce excellent 

 water at depths varying from twenty to two 

 hundred feet, and in the mountains, never-failing 

 springs are found in abundance. 



The province of Camaguey has always been 

 noted for its fine "Potreros" or meadows since a 

 large part of that middle belt has always been 

 comparatively free from forest and devoted to 

 stock raising. 



In Havana and Matanzas provinces, good lands 

 command such prices that they are rather pro- 

 hibitive for stock raising purposes, but in Pinar 

 del Rio, there are still extensive tracts in the 

 level sections and in the foothills which hirnish 

 ideal grazing lands and which, if not absorbed 

 by sugar cane planters will eventually become 

 one of the most successful stock raising districts 

 in the Republic. 



These lands may be secured at the present 

 time, in large tracts, at prices ranging from 

 ^20.00 to I40.00 per acre, and should produce a 



