THE CUBA REVIEW 



The Department of Agri- 

 Stock culture, in accordance with 

 Improve- the law voted by Congress 



merit Plans for the celebration of the 

 National Live Stock Exposi- 

 tion, in Havana, recently authorized the 

 purchase of the prize-winning stock for 

 distribution over the island to better the 

 live stock industry and sent them to the 

 agricultural experiment station and to the 

 agricultural schools in the six provinces. 



The services of these animals will be free 

 and a record will be kept at each school to 

 which a cattle dealer may apply at any time 

 and obtain a certificate declaring that his 

 stock is the result of crossings with first class 

 stock. 



The prize-winning animals include rams, 

 jennets, hogs, jacks, trotting stud horses 

 and bulls and cows, Holsteins and Herefords. 



Modern Cuba, of Havana, has an article 

 on cattle raising, in Cuba, part of which 

 follows: "We consider the importation and 

 acclimatization of new breeds of animals 

 in Cuba is of far greater importance to the 

 welfare of the Island of Cuba than a political 

 revolution. 



"The climate and soil conditions are 

 suitably adapted for stock raising and after 

 a few years there will be no excuse for Cuba's 

 importing mules and horses from foreign 

 countries, providing the stock raisers are 

 wide awake ; in fact, they should be able 

 to export animals of similar class. 



"Of course it is a well known fact that 

 imported animals degenerate very quickly, 

 so that the majority of the offspring are not, 

 as a rule, comparable to their parents. It 

 is not common knowledge among the people 

 who buy blooded stock that the people 

 who make a business of breeding do not 

 save more than a small percentage of the 

 offspring. In close breeding it is known 

 that a very small per cent, of the offspring 

 are equal or superior to their parent, so 

 that the majority of the animals born of 

 blooded parents might be called second grade, 

 and as a rule, are not used for breeding 

 purposes. What we wish to state simply 

 is that even among registered stock, selection 

 is necessary in order to improve the herd 

 or keep it up to its standard, using only 

 here and there one of the males or females 

 to become parents of the future herd. 



"There has been considerable importation 

 of good blood among our Cuban cattle, and 

 every year we see the change for the better; 

 cattle are becoming heavier and of more 

 standard type, suitable especially for beef 

 and working stock. Less attention, how- 

 ever, has been paid to what might be called 

 standard blooded stock. In localities where 

 farmers have had the services of Jersey bulls 

 and Holstein stock there is a decided type of 

 milk-producing cattle. 



"While at present there does not seem to 

 be much money in breeding horses, every 

 one who owns a horse should take pride in 

 its being as good as money and circumstances 

 will permit. 



"The raising of mules in the Island of 

 Cuba should be a very profitable business 

 when large, imported jacks are used with 

 the larger female of native stock. Mules 

 are in constant demand at high prices, and 

 •will be for many years; as time goes on the 

 mule will, to a large extent, surplant the 

 ox for agricultural purposes." 



President Menoeal has ap- 

 Cuba's pointed a commission corn- 

 Boston posed of Dii-ector of Agri- 

 Exhibit culture Roberto L. Luaces, 

 Sub-seci-etary of Agriculture 

 Lorenzo Arias and Chief of the InJFormation 

 Bureau George Reno, to arrange for the 

 Cuban exhibit at the exhibit of food products 

 which is to be held in Boston, Ma.ss., in 

 October. 



In addition to preparing an exhibit of 

 Cuban food products, including all the fruits, 

 vegetables and by-pi-oducts of cane and 

 tobacco, Cuba will demonstrate the advant- 

 ages of life in Cuba and an illustration of 

 the comforts which may be enjoyed will 

 be prepared by the Woman's Club of Havana, 

 who will prepare a Cuban home of the 

 well-to-do class, showing usual interior 

 arrangements. A Cuban kitchen will serve 

 meals prepared a la crioUa. 



President Menoeal has set aside the sum 

 of $12,000 to pay the expenses of this exhibit. 



The erection of the new 



New Calixto Garcia Hospital to 



Havana replace the No. 1 Hospital, 



Hospital will be begun at an early 



date. Bids will be asked of 



contractors for the purpose. 



The new building is to occupy the site 

 of the No. 1 Hospital, which covers 600,000 

 square feet of ground. It will be a general 

 three-story building divided into wards, 

 each ward to have a capacity of 30 persons, 

 the total capacity of the hospital being 500 

 beds. The patients will be installed on the 

 second and thii'd floors and the offices will 

 be on the ground floor of the building. 



J. Gutiarrez Quiros, of Hav- 

 Visits Night ana, a Justice of the Cuban 

 Court Supreme Court, visited the 

 Woman's Night Court in 

 New York while in that city and sat on the 

 bench with Magistrate Barlow. He evinced 

 a keen interest in the proceedings. He re- 

 mained about an hour, and praised the man- 

 ner in which the proceedings were conducted. 



President Menoeal, on June 25th, appointed 

 Carlos Manuel Cespedes to be Minister to 

 the United States. Seiior Cespedes is the 

 son of one of Cuba's gi-eatest hero martyrs, 

 and for .several years has been Minister to 

 Italy. 



