27 Agricultural Cuba 



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per hundred weight, which will yield about 

 ^loo.oo per acre profit. 



The method of gathering the crop is as follows: 



The pods are removed from the trees in both 

 Spring and Autumn. They are heaped in piles 

 in order to hasten fermentation, which lasts four 

 or five days. After this is completed, the beans 

 are separated from the pods, washed in tanks and 

 dried. The process is simple and rapid, requires 

 no machinery and only a comparatively small 

 amount of labor. 



