THE CUBA REVIEW 



33 



PLANTATION CARS 7n.^^L^r.llt^l 



No. 1005 (Palabia del Cable, ZOMPI) 



Fabricamos carros de todas clases y tanianos para usarse en Ingenios. Lineas Au.viliares 

 y Servicios Analogos ; asi como piezas sueltas para estos carros. 



Escriban pidiendo infornies acerca de Carros para Carta. Carros Cerrados, Carros de 

 Plataforma (convertibles en carros para cana), Carros para Coinesiibles. Carros de 

 Volleo, Carros dc Tanqiie, Carros para Contratistas Carros para Ganados, etc. N'uestros 

 modelos v construccion representan el niejor producto americano. 



AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO., NEW YORK, U.S.A. 



Direccion por el cable: "Naixim" 

 Los mayores constructores de Carros del inundo 



should be planted alternately with the sugar crops for the special purpose of restoring 

 the nitrogen elements of fertility in the soil. There should be a more liberal use of 

 commercial fertilizers. Duggar states that a good cane fertilizer should contain 4..5 

 per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent available phosphoric acid and potash 4.."') per cent. Conner 

 (Phil. Agric. Rev., vol. iv, p. 56) suggests nitrogen, 5 per cent., available phosphoric 

 acid, 8 per cent, potash, 10 per cent. 



"Either of these formulas should be applied at the rate of 600 kilos per hectare (240 

 kilos per acre) in furrows by the side of the cane as soon as cultivation is begun, and 

 additional applications, in smaller or larger quantities, will prove quite profitable if 

 made during the active growing period of the cane. In the dry portions of the Hawaiian 

 Islands there is a tendency to make very heavy applications of nitrate of soda dissolved 

 in irrigation water and run over the fields at intervals of three to four weeks. Lime 

 as a fertilizer will prove valuable on heavy clay soils, particularly when they are first 

 being reclaimed after having grown up to grass. Lime is not a fertilizer in itself, but 

 has the power of decomposing vegetable substances and disintegrating heavy compact 

 soils, so as to make the plant food they contain readily available." 



Actual field experiments, says Austin H. Kirby, of the Imperial Department of Agri- 

 culture, Barbadoes, are necessary in a given locality to determine to what extent fertilizers 

 may profitably be employed on the soils of sugar producing countries, and it is more 

 largely a question of record keeping to ascertain the costs and profits rather than one 

 for the chemist to decide. 



CENTRAL RAMONA RECONSTRUCTED 



Central Ramona, near Rancho Veloz in 

 Santa Clara Province, which was burned 

 two years ago, has been entirely recon- 

 structed and has a capacity for 100,000 bags 

 or more. Mr. F. Arechavaleta, owner of 

 this central, has just commenced the con- 

 struction of another nine and a half kilo- 

 meters of narrow gauge (.'16') road through 

 his land. The total railroad will amount 

 to over 24 kilometers. 



Up to August 31st Cuba's sugar crop 

 compares as follows : 



The production thus far exceeds the total 

 crop of 1910 some 44,724 tons. The total 

 output for that year was 1.804,000 tons and 

 is the largest made up to the present. 



