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THE CUBA REVIEW 



of oranges. Vou note in your travels on 

 the railroads liow almost universally the 

 K-rapefruit is served at breakfast. In the 

 middle of the winter, when berries, canta- 

 loupes and tiiose kinds of fruit arc not to 

 be had. nearly every one orders a grape- 

 fruit. 



Of course vvc need not tell the average 

 liorticulturist in California that the market 

 for lemons is not quite so broad as that 

 for oranges, and that at this time the mar- 

 ket for grapefruit is not quite so l;road as 

 that for lemons. Set out fewer lemons 

 than oranges and fewer grapefruit than 

 lemons, but divide up your crop. There 

 are several advantages in this. Xcver in 

 any season will all these members of the 

 citrus fruit family fail, and you will have 

 something coming on the market at all pe- 

 riods of the year. This gives you a steadier 

 income and less pressure in the picking 

 and preparing for market of your fruit 

 than if yon had all Xavels to be marketed 

 in four months, or all Valencias to be mar- 

 keted in the other part of the year. 



sary is 2.") degrees. Vanilla can i)e culti- 

 vated up to an altitude of from :U)0 to 4()(i 

 meters.- .1/r. liduardo Lniiisfus. Chief of 

 the Department of Horticulture. Cuban 

 .\gricultural IC.xperimcnt Station. 



Yield of Copra 



The 'I'rof'ical Agriculturist of London 

 says that an experiment was made at the 

 agricultural station in Ceylon recently, in 

 order to lind out what percentage of Copra 

 could be obtained from 10,000 cocoa-nuts. 

 The nuts which were small weighed 1,284.5 

 lbs., the shells ;57(j.5 lbs. and the kernels 

 7o.!.r. lbs. From the latter W.M.'y lbs. of dry 

 copra were obtained or 44.8 per cent. To 

 sum up from the experiment, it may be 

 sai<l that 1 ton of cocoa-nuts may be ex- 

 pected to yield l.:515 lbs. of kernels, and 

 from these oS9 lbs. of copra. 



Cultui-e of X'anilla 



On account of the similarity of the cli- 

 mate of Cuba with the climate of Mexico 

 it seems that vanilla could be successfully 

 cultivated in some places in this island. 

 But it would be useful to make an experi- 

 ment before undertaking that cultivation. 

 The climate should be favored by frequent, 

 but not copious rains : vanilla does not 

 grow well in places where the drought is 

 very severe and where the winds from the 

 sea blow hard and frequently during the 

 winter. The average temperature neces- 



On May 9th heavy rains at all points 

 gave relief from the six months' drought. 

 The rainfall especially benefit the grazing 

 districts and tobacco sections, the dryness 

 seriously interfering with the handling of 

 the leaf in process of curing. The people 

 were on the verge of want, having been un- 

 able to plant the ordinary food crops. 



Secretary of Public Works Joaquin Cha- 

 lons on May 6th ordered the bureau of 

 harbors and rivers to proceed at once \\ ith 

 preparations for the dredging of Cayo 

 Franco Anchorage at Caibarien. This 

 work will be done as the result of a peti- 

 tion filed with the department of public 

 works. 



Percentage of Water to be Evaporated from Cane Juice to Syrup of Different Densities 

 (Exa<ft Within 4 of One Per Cent at 60 DcKrees Fahrenheit) 



The above table gives valuable information not only to the sugar boiler but all engaged 



in the sugar industry.^ It was prepared by the engineers of the Pratt Engineering 



and Machine Co. and has never before been published in this form. 



