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experience of years in cultivation, this 

 cotton may be improved by grafting, as 

 well as in selection of seed. 



"As near as I have been able to esti- 

 mate," said Mr. Wheeler, "from my ex- 

 perience, the cost of this cotton is about 

 $1.25 a hundred pounds of seed cotton, or 

 3% cents a pound for lint, at the planta- 

 tion, and could be placed upon docks at 

 seaboard at a cost of 6 to 8 cents a pound, 

 less the value of the seed." 



In spite of the fertility of the soil, says 

 Mr. Wheeler, the abundance of insect life 

 has been one of the great obstacles to 

 cultivation in Cuba, but none of these ap- 

 pear to attack the wild cotton. 



Attempts to cultivate Egyptian cotton 

 and Sea Island cotton in Cuba have not 

 been successful, on account of the attacks 

 of ants and other insects, and the same 

 may be applied to IMr. Wheeler's own ex- 

 perience with Carvonica cotton from Aus- 

 tralian seed, which he had planted in Con- 

 necticut. — Boston Advertiser. 



ILLITERACY IN CUBA 

 Charles Stelzle in the Mason City (la.) 



Times-Herald says that Cuba's population 

 of ten 3'ears of age and over amounts to 

 1,481,573 persons. He finds the total for- 

 eign whites number 196,881 persons and 

 the percentage of illiteracy in that class 

 25.6. The total colored race foot up 453,- 

 714 and the illiterac}^ 55. The total nation, 

 white, 830,978 ; percentage of illiteracy 41.4. 

 According to the census of 1907, the 

 conditions with regard to illiteracy in 

 Cuba were as indicated in the figures 

 given. Out of a total population of 

 2,048,980, 21,420 were carpenters, one 

 out of every seven being illiterate. Of 

 cigar factory operatives there were 24,161, 

 the proportion of illiteracy being slightly 

 higher. But these constituted the better 

 type of workers. Of farmers, planters 

 and farm laborers there were 364,821 males 

 and 3,110 females. Of the males 235,027, 

 or nearly two-thirds, were illiterate. The 

 illiteracy among the female was in about 

 the same proportion. About one-half of 

 the males of voting age are illiterate. An- 

 other striking fact in connection with the 

 life of Cuba is that 257.888, or 12.6 per 

 cent of the total population, are illegiti- 

 mate children. 



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