THE CUBA REVIEW 



21 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



NEW CUBAN POSTAGE STAMPS 



It is now thought that the issue of new 

 Ciiban postage stamps will not be made until 

 February 24th, 1917. This date is a national 

 holiday commemorating the "Grito de Baire." 



In this connection, there has just been 

 issued a new set of telegraph stamps all of 

 the same design, that is "Ajax Defying the 

 Lightning." The stamps come in different 

 colors and denominations and are used on 

 telegrams to prepay them. 



TOBACCO 



The explanation for the forthcoming an- 

 nouncement of advance in the price of all 

 Cuban cigars and tobacco by a recent article 

 in "Tobacco Leaf" gives the following reasons: 

 Increased action ties in other industries has 

 made labor in the tobacco-growing districts 

 scarce, and the price of labor unprecedently 

 high. The wooden cases in which domestic 

 tobacco is packed, the cheesecloth under 

 which shadegrown tobacco is grown, fertilizers 

 necessary to the soil, implements used in culti- 

 vation, etc., etc., have all advanced, and 

 particularly in Cuba where the great boom 

 in the sugar industry has diverted agricultur- 

 ists to that industry and created a shortage of 

 good Havana leaf . The result is that all lands 

 of leaf tobacco used for cigar purposes in the 

 United States have gone skyward. 



PATENT GRANTED 



A patent has been granted to Sr. Menalio 

 Marin covering a process of manufacturing 

 paper from various vegetable fibers, princi- 

 pally henequen and sugar cane. 



AUTOMOBILE TEST 



Near Santiago, Cuba, is the celebrated 

 Boniato road, which winds up the side of a 

 mountain 2,000 feet high and is considered 

 the severest test in Cuba for an automol>ile. 

 Recently a car made the ascent in six minutes, 

 the car being driven on the second gear. 



COTTON GROWING IN CUBA 



In the rocky sections of Pinar del Rio 

 Province in that incomparable land oi tobacco, 

 cotton grows beautifully as the traveler may 

 witness by taking a trip to the southern 

 section of the province where he can see the 

 beautiful plantings of this product, says La 

 Lucha of Havana. 



It says that the district aromid Mangas, 

 Candelaria, San Cristobal, and in that dis- 

 trict thereabouts are most excellent lands 

 for cotton growing as experiments made there 

 demonstrate. Reports have been made of the 

 formation of a company which will exploit 

 the business on a great scale, a fact that 

 should be well taken into consideration by 

 land owners in these places. 



CAMAGUEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



The Agricultural College of the province of 

 Camaguey, has been opened for the admis- 

 sion of students. The requirements for 

 entrance are: They must be over 13 years 

 of age and natives of Cuba. It is required 

 that the applicant be of good physical con- 

 stitution and he must pass an examination 

 in writing, geography of Cuba, and have 

 some knowledge of arithmetic. 



A certificate must be secured from the 

 professor of the district in which the appli- 

 cant resides, as to age, state of health and 

 deportment. 



The course at the college is free of tuition 

 and other charges. 



LUMBER 



Cuba imports annually about 600,000,000ft. 

 of lumber. This consists, for the most part, 

 of pine, spruce and fir, and is imported in the 

 form of inch boards, running from 6 to 12 

 inches in width, planks two and three inches 

 thick ind of various -nddths. The greater 

 part of this lumber comes from the United 

 States, principally from the Gulf ports, but 

 Canada also supplies a large quantity. 



LIMA BEANS 



It is reported that a shipment of Cuban 

 lima beans was received in New York early 

 in November, and was sold at the rate of 

 ,1f3.£0 per box. It is expected that there will 

 be regular shipments of this commodity in 

 the future. 



