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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Broom Corn 



The rcccntlv piililislicd eighteenth aiimial 

 report U^of^-") o^ •'i^' Oklahoma Agricul- 

 tural Experiiueut Station says the market 

 <leiuanils a hrush of fresh green color, so 

 that the heads should he free from stains, 

 and therefore it should he harvested when 

 the plants are coming into full hloom. If 

 tile crop is allowed to remain after this, 

 and the weather is wet, the heads which 

 remain inside the leaf sheath will have 

 a tendency to turn red. Similar damage 

 mav he done through attacks of i)lant lice, 

 and through over-ripeness and exposure to 

 the sun. 



Messrs. I'.arlow and 1 Icnnershects of 

 Columbia, Cuba, recently sent two bundles 

 of broomcorn grown in their section to 

 Ihooins. Brushes and Handles, a publica- 

 tion of Milwaukee, Wis. The senders .say 

 neither of the samples received any rain, 

 but were grown during Five months of 

 drought. The magazine mentioned com- 

 ments on the samples as follows : "The 

 two samples of lirush sent by Messrs. Bar- 

 low and Hcnnershects are quite different. 

 Xo. 1, grown on heavy black soil, is long 

 and straight and of excellent color, some- 

 what coarse in fibre, but with little or no 

 center stem. No. 2, grown on light gravel 

 soil, is short, finer and more stem. No. 1 

 is of considerably better quality, though it 

 is. perhaps, better adapted to heavy brooms 

 than to parlor grades. No. 2 seems to 

 have been cut when nearly ripe, while No. 1 

 was cut when green and has nnicli the bet- 

 ter color." 



Sues for Cuban Land 



Sixteen hundred acres of Cuban planta- 

 tion land are involved in a suit for .$80,000 

 liled liy the Colombiano Cultan Developing 

 Co. against the Southwest Land Co. in fed- 

 eral court, says the Cleveland (Ohio) 

 Plalndealer. Alcn in a number of Ohio ci- 

 ties are interested in the outcome. 



The plantiff says that in June, 1007, a 

 jiroject was started in which Frank E. 

 (irosshans was to buy from the defendant 

 cnnii)any ],<)(io acres of land in tiic province 

 (if Pinar del Rio, and the defendant was 

 to build a railroad to it. Grosshans, it is 

 alleged, caused the plaintitif company to be 

 formed later and the plaintiff Ijought the 

 land from the defendant, making a first 

 payment and installing valuable improve- 

 ments. 



The contention now is that the defendant 

 refuses to convey title to the land and has 

 not built a railroad, as it was bound to do. 

 The land, it is alleged, is now in the pos- 

 session of others. W. H. Spence of Lisbon, 

 ()., is attorney for the Colombiano Com- 

 pany. 



Agricultural Schools Planned 



Sr. Francisco P. Machado. secretary of 

 agriculture, commerce and labor, has pre- 

 pared plans and estimates for the construc- 

 tion of agricultural experiment schools, 

 which have I)een officially approved. The 

 assistant secretary of the department. Col. 

 Luis Perez, has been sent to select the 

 locations in Camaguey and Oriente prov- 

 inces where the new schools will be built. 



Canning factory at McKinley, Isle uf Pines, now nearing cimipletion. The machinery 

 to be installed will, it is claimed, turn out 20,000 cans a day 



