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THE CUBA REVIEW 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



Louisiana State University Catalog of 1915 — 



Baton Rouge, La. 



It is interesting to note that in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, a sugar experiment sta- 

 tion is devoted to the study of the jiroduction 

 ■of sugar cane and its manufacture into sugar. 



Year Book of United States Department of 

 Agriculture, 1914. 



This volume contains the annual report of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, and also many 

 ■articles on a great variety of subject written 

 'by the various experts of the Department of 

 Agriculture. These articles are handsomely 

 illustrated. The volume also includes sta- 

 tistical tables of great value. 



FLORIDA 



At Florida, on the main line of the Cuba 

 railroad, big improvements are under way in 

 the building of new houses and much new 

 land is being cleared and planted in cane. 

 This follows the proposed building of two new 

 sugar mills at this point. Additional railroad 

 facilities in new sidings have been added. 



Near Florida, while clearing ground recently, 

 the fire spread across the railroad tracks and 

 •burned about 45 acres of sugar cane before it 

 was extinguished. 



At Cespedes much activity is shown in the 

 large log shipments. Miles and miles of fine 

 logs of mahogany and cedar can be seen along- 

 side the railroad tracks and loading in cars for 

 shipment. There is also a saw mill located 

 here for the preparing of railroad cross ties for 

 the Cuba Company. 



CASPAR 



At and near Caspar, on the main line of the 

 Cuba Railroad, much land is being cleared and 

 prepared for the planting of new sugar cane. 

 Not much development is noted otherwise in 

 the line of new buildings, etc. 



JOVELLANOS 



At Jovellanos the United Rys. have a newly 

 completed station which is one of the best 

 along the line. It is used as a junction point 

 -and serves for both branches of the road at 

 this point. 



NEW SUGAR CENTRAL 



It is reported that the Central '"Vertientes" 

 has placed a contract for a new central to be 

 located near Florida. The new central will be 

 named "Agramonte," and it is specified that 

 the new mill will be ready for operation before 

 the first day of January, 1916. The new cen- 

 tral will be connected by rail with the main 

 line of the Cuba Railroad Company. 



At the annual convention of the American 

 Cotton Manufacturers' Association, held at 

 Memphis, Tenn., recently, the President, Mr, 

 T. I. Hickman, in the course of his address, 

 had this to say in regard to the need of foreign 

 trade : 



"A great deal has been said about the 

 necessity of securing more foreign trade. We 

 ought to do a much larger business with Cuba 

 and South America — -though the main trouble 

 with the South American trade at present 

 seems to be a lack of knowledge as to exactly 

 what they want (so that we can go ahead and 

 make it for them) ; and the necessity of formu- 

 lating some plan whereby we could carry 

 their accounts for the long periods which Ger- 

 many and England have heretofore done, or 

 to finance these accounts in such way as we 

 could handle them. With reference to this 

 South American trade, we are as yet touching 

 only the countries bordering on the Carib- 

 bean Sea (where our trade is increasing some- 

 what), but of Argentine and Brazil we know 

 scarcely anything, and the business in these 

 two countries ought to be a very important 

 matter to us." 



Recent shipments to Cuba by The Spray 

 Engineering Company, of 52 Broadway, New 

 York City, have been as follows: 



{These are water cooling spray ponds and de- 

 signed for cooling condenser water in sugar 

 centrals). 



One plant with a capacity of 3,000 

 gallons per minute, designed for the 

 Mapos Sugar Company, Sancti 

 Spiritus, Santa Clara. 

 Three plants, each with a capacity 

 of 4,000 gals, per minute, which have 

 been shipped to Central Ermita at 

 Arroyo Pedro, Central Florida at 

 Florida and Central Palma at 

 Palma Soriano. 



