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and bring 4 cents per pound. The 

 sweet potato slip bears in less time. The 

 people are all busy, getting their lands 

 cleared. They slash them down, take 

 out valuable timber, then fire them. 

 This burns up the vines, seed-timber, 

 leaving the ground clear, ready to plant, 

 which is then planted with the hoe and 

 hand planters, as small stumps are too 

 numerous. The savannah or prairie 

 land must be plowed, which is hard work 

 and expensive. — Mrs. Blosser in the Her- 

 ald and Presbyter, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



For a High School in La Gloria. 



La Gloria is petitioning the Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction to allow for 

 the salary of an additional teacher for 

 the higher grades. There are over forty 

 American children in the school at La 

 Gloria. The school building is a large, 

 model one, built by the colony itself, and 

 attended by both Cuban and American 

 children. The department provides two 

 teachers, one American and one Cuban. 

 The appropriation for a teacher will give 

 advanced scholars something of a high 

 school course. The colony also asks for 

 the extension of the new road, recently 

 completed from Viaro to La Gloria, on 

 to Camaguey. 



"Ten Days in Cuba." 



Mr. Duncan O. Bull, the general man- 

 ager of the Cuban Realty Company, Lim- 

 ited, is preparing for a vigorous cam- 

 paign for the Bartle colonists this win- 

 ter. He further advertises to send free 

 of charge to any address a copy of a new 

 book published by Hon. Nicholas J. 

 Whalen, Speaker of the Michigan Leg- 

 islature, which gives an interesting ac- 

 count of his ten-days' trip which Mr. 

 Whalen made to Cuba, in company with 

 Senator Snell, W. B. Wood of Detroit, 

 and others. After returning from Cuba 

 Mr. Whalen published a series of articles 

 in his newspaper descriptive of his trip. 

 He is a fluent and pleasing writer and 

 describes the various colonies and points 

 of interest which he visited, with an ac- 

 curacy and detail that is at once instruc- 

 tive and entertaining. The first edition 

 of 5,000 copies is practically exhausted. 



Cuban Fruit at Auction. 



ORANGES AND GRAPE-FRUIT.— 

 The offerings in Cuban oranges sold in 

 a range of $1.70 to $1.95 per box. The 

 sale included about 45 boxes. There 

 were a few lots of new crop Cuban 

 grape-fruit that went out readily at from 

 $6.25 to $7.87i^ per box for the fancy, 

 and $2,121^ to $3.87^ for the choice. The 

 fancy stock was taken freely, and the 

 high prices paid indicate that there are 



buyers here who are seeking good grape- 

 fruit. 



CUBAN PINEAPPLES.— There were 

 about 70 crates of Cuban pines sold with 

 24s bringing $3.50; 36s, $2.50, and 42s, 

 $1.12 per crate. There are for purposes 

 of market reporting no Cuban pines of- 

 fered from store. The few lots available 

 being taken up about as fast as they 

 arrive. 



CUBAN BANANAS. — The situation 

 in Cuban bananas is difficult to figure 

 out. The market has no established 

 basis on which to operate. Most of the 

 stock is sold at the auction sale and the 

 prices all along have been on an exceed- 

 ingly low level. Some Cuban fruit of 

 fair weight sold this week as low as 15c. 

 per bunch, and a few lots brought over 

 50c. per bunch, it is stated. — New York, 

 September 11, 1908. 



"Peggy," a Crystal White Orpington hen, born 

 and raised in Kansas City, and her portrait is 

 being painted to hang in the Missouri State 

 House in Jefferson City. She is valued at $5,000, 

 and five of her chicks were lately sold for $7,500. 

 She is ninety-seven and three-quarters perfect of 

 her type. — Collier's Weekly. 



To Get Rid of Charbon. 



J. S. Buckley, Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, says there 

 is no other way to get rid of charbon. 

 Stock should be vaccinated, and infected 

 stock be kept out of the pasture and away 

 from the healthy stock. If that is done 

 there is no danger of spreading the disease.. 



