THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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1907-08 Sugar Crop. 



The following are the official figures is- 

 sued October 2 by the Cpban Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, covering the 1907- 

 08 sugar crop and a comparison with the 

 figures for 1906-07: 



1906-7. 1907-8. 



Number of mills working 184 168 



Arrobas of cane ground. . 1,234.494,406 815,917,247 

 Bags of sugar produced. 9,947,130 6,757,047 

 Equivalent in arrobas .. 128,215,274 87,037,840 

 Reduced to tons 1,452,049 985,711 



Duty on Sugar Bags. 



By Decree No. 889, of September 9, 

 1908, the following clause is added to 

 paragraph 127 of the existing customs 

 tariff: 



"A." — Bags for packing sugar made 

 of cotton tissues, plain and without fig- 

 ures or twilled, whatever may be the 

 number of threads thereof and the 

 weight per 100 square meters of the com- 

 ponent tissue, it being necessary that 

 such bags be marked with the name of 

 the sugar mill for which they are in- 

 tended and place where the same is lo- 

 cated N. W. Kilo, $0.09. 



Note. — The bags above referred to are 

 hereby exempted from the surtax for 

 making up and also from the surcharge 



provided for in decree Xo. 44, of Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1904. 



Imports from the United States, 

 classed under paragraph No. 127, are en- 

 titled to a reduction of 30 per cent, of 

 the duty, and the rate of duty on sugar 

 bags from the United States will there- 

 fore be 6.3 cents per kilo. — -U. S. Trade 

 Report. 



Treatment for Hog Cholera. 



First. — Clean and disinfect the cor<-als 

 and burn the bodies of all hogs dying. 



Second. — Give the animals, once a 'lay, 

 sweet milk or beaten eggs, one table- 

 spoonful to two hundred pounds of the 

 following mixture, the ingredients of 

 which should be reduced to a fine pow- 

 der and perfectly blended: Charcoal, sul- 

 phur, sulphide of ammonia, sulphate of 

 soda, one pound each; chloride of soda, 

 bicarbonate of soda, hyposulphate of 

 soda, two pounds each. 



The complete incineration of the car- 

 casses of the animals dying of this ter- 

 rible disease is indispensable to the avoid- 

 ance of foci of infection. — Dr. N. S. 

 Mayo, Chief Veterinary Department, Cu- 

 ban Experiment Station. 



Early beginnings of American colonist life in Cuba. This house cost $200 to build. There 

 are American wash tubs in sight and also chickens, turkeys and ducks. Wire netting was stretched 

 between the supports, and tar paper laid over that. This kind of a house lasts several years. 



