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accompanying illustration. The fruit varies in size from four to eight inches in 
length and from two to four inches through, tapering upward like a pear. The color is 
usually green, but some varieties are nearly white or cream colored. A single plant when 
grown in good soil and trained on a suitable arbor or trellis often produces as much as 
two hundred so-called pears, and as many as three hundred have been counted in one 
season's growth. 
Northern travelers in the tropies are usually not very fond of the prepared vegetable 
pear in any form, but to the natives and to those who have lived in the West Indies for 
many years, it is generally regarded as being more delicately flavored than our northern 
squash. The cooked fruit is generally creamed, baked or made into fritters, sauces, tarts, 
puddings, salads, or used like potatoes with other vegetables and meats. 
Not only is the fruit a valuable product, but the young shoots, tender immature 
branches and tuberous roots are used as important articles of diet. Of these the tubers are 
most valuable, often weighing as much as twenty pounds, and are prepared and eaten like 
yams. They contain about 20 per cent of starch and have a good flavor. 
It is believed that the fruit as well as the tubers would find a ready sale in the northern 
markets, if they were brought to the United States and offered under the most favorable 
circumstances during a time of the year when other vegetables are scarce in the city 
markets. 
Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation 
To the Holders of 7% Convertible Debentures 
of Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation: 
The Cuba Cane Sugar Corporation has 
arranged with a group of bankers to secure 
at once a loan of $10,000,000 under an 
arrangement which requires the subordina- 
tion of the debentures to the new money 
for the period of said loan and of any re- 
newals, substitutions or refundings thereof. 
As a consideration therefor, the corpora- 
tion is offering to increase the rate of inter- 
est on assenting debentures from 7 per 
cent to 8 per cent per annum from July 
1, 1921, to the maturity of the debentures, 
provided the plan becomes effective. 
The corporation has addressed a_cir- 
cular letter to all of the debenture holders 
whose names are known to it, setting forth 
its present condition and the details of the 
plan. All holders of debentures who have 
not received this letter should communicate 
immediately with the corporation at its 
office, No. 123 Front Street, New York 
City, or obtain copies of the letter from 
Bankers Trust Company, New York City: 
Old Colony Trust Company, Boston, 
Massachusetts, or Continental and Com- 
mercial Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, 
Illinois. 
Debenture holders are urgently request- 
ed forthwith to assent to the plan by de- 
positing their debentures at the offices of 
any one of the three institutions above 
named. Temporary negotiable receipts will 
be issued therefor, and application will 
be made at once to list these receipts on the 
New York Stock Exchange. 
By order of the Directors, 
Cuspa CANE SuGAR CORPORATION, 
By W. E. Ogilvie, President. 
Cuban Telephone Company 
An issue of $4,000,000 Cuban Telephone 
Company gold, series A, 71% per cent. 
bonds, due in 1941, and not redeemable be- 
fore 1931, has been purchased by the 
National City Company. The bonds are 
offered at 95, to yield 8 per cent. on the 
investment. They are redeemable, in whole 
or in part, on any interest payment date, 
on thirty days’ notice, at 10744 and ac- 
crued interest, between September 1, 1931, 
and 1936, and at 105 and accrued interest 
from that date prior to maturity. 
The Cuban corporation virtually con- 
trols the telephone system of Cuba. 
Through an agreement with the American 
Telegraph and Telephone Company cover- 
ing the tolls and revenues from the three 
submarine cables recently put in operation 
between Havana and Key West, all of the 
borrower’s telephones in Cuba are brought 
into direct connection with all cities in the 
United States and Canada. The Cuban 
corporation’s gross earnings in the year 
ended July 31st were $2,923,142; balance, 
after taxes and charges, was $1,191,433. 
