THE CUBA REVIEW 



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providing, that some machine or device is 

 introduced for harvesting for the use of the 

 rice growers. It is useless for Cuba to think 

 of competing in manj' of the minor crops 

 without also investigating and importing 

 improved machinery and methods. It may 

 even in some cases be necessary to import ex- 

 perienced help until our native labor becomes 

 accustomed to new methods. — Prof H. A. 

 Van Hermann in Modern Cuba, Havana. 



Sr. ]\Ianuel Xegreira, President of the Mer- 

 chants Trade Unions is at the head of a move- 



ment in Havana to form an industrial com- 

 pany, which shall acquire suitable lands for 

 rice planting. 



Importation of American cattle intO' 

 Cuba for the present is prohibited by presi- 

 dential decree, in order to prevent the 

 spread to the island of the foot and mouth 

 disease now prevalent in the States. 



All importations of cattle will accordingly 

 have to be made from other countries. 



Cuban Cave Cutters at work in the Fields. The Woman is Holding the Knife with which the 



Cutting is done. 



