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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GENERAL NOTES 



SHOULD SELL CUBANS EVERYTHING 



C. H. Whittington, Cuban honorary 

 consul to the United States, has moved his 

 headquarters from Atlanta, Ga., to Okla- 

 homa City, Oklahoma. From here he will 

 report to his government on all financial 

 and diplomatic matters for the entire 

 southwestern section of the United States, 

 exclusive of Galveston and New Orleans, 

 which cities are already provided with 

 consuls. 



"Cuba is a great field for the American 

 wholesalers and manufacturers," said Air. 

 Whittington. "That country annually im- 

 ports about $13,000,000 worth of grain and 

 grain products and only about half are 

 now being sold by the United States. We 

 can sell these people this class of product 

 from 10 to 32 per cent cheaper than any 

 other country in the world and there is 

 no reason why we should not sell them 

 everything they use in that line. There 

 is a reason why we don't, of course, and 

 it is simply because we do not go after 

 the trade. Flour and stock feed grains 

 find a ready market there and I believe that 

 kafir corn would find ready buyers. A 

 great amount of feed stuff is imported and 

 kafir corn is cheap and easily handled. — 

 Oklahoma Oklahoma}!. 



Omaha products have broken down the 

 barriers and are going into Cuba at a 

 lively rate, says the Omaha Bee. In other 



wurds, tile Cubans have acquired the habit 

 of eating the output of the Omaha packing 

 houses and are clamoring for more. 



During the last few weeks the Missouri 

 Pacific has hauled out of South Omaha 

 three solid trains of fresh and cured meats 

 for Cuba and in addition to this enough 

 more to fill the cars of two more long 

 trains have been contracted for. From 

 Omaha the meats go in refrigerator cars. 



HAVANA S HOUSEHOLD REQUIREMENTS 



In addition to the market trade there 

 is a large trade in vegetables and fruits 

 carried by street merchants in Havana. In 

 the early morning the roads leading to the 

 city are filled with country men bringing 

 in the product of the farm in large pan- 

 niers carried on horses and donkeys. The 

 panniers are filled with oranges, pineapples, 

 melons, sweet potatoes and other com- 

 modities. One often sees a mass of green 

 advancing without any visible means of 

 progression, but later it is found to be a 

 stack of green fodder covering and envel- 

 oping the animal bearing it. 



Poultry dealers bring in live chickens 

 and turkeys carried head down from their 

 shoulders and small live pigs are carried 

 in the same manner. The open-grilled 

 windows are favorable to the street venders 

 of all classes and their musical cries are 



The new sugar mill of tlie Cuba Company at Tobabo, Oriente Province. It is the newest in the 



sugar group and only began grinding in February. 



El nuevo Ingenio de acjicar de la Compauia Cuba, en Jobado, Provincia de Oriente. Es el mas 



moderno en su clase, y solamente empeso la molienda en febrero. 



