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THE CUBA REVIEW 



INFORMATION FOR THE AMERICAN SETTLER 



FRUIT GROWERS TO ORGANIZE— A NEW COLONY— THE BEST PAYING 



CROPS FOR CUBA 



I'icst-l'aying Crops 



The astonishing inactivitj- of the farmer 

 or settler in Cnba is, in most cases, due to 

 the lack of capital for necessary improve- 

 ments, and most disastrous when combined 

 with ignorance regarding farming and mar- 

 ket conditions in Cuba. 



Kven when the raising of citrus fruit 

 sliall become the main business the settler 

 should raise salable crops, as corn, potatoes, 

 beans, etc.. as soon as possible. Cuba is 

 importing for $2,000,000 corn, but could ex- 

 port corii. Of course, not by using the 

 degeneraie Cuban corn as seed corn. Raise 

 better corn, select the seed and make it 

 a business to deal in selected seed corn ; 

 it will pay well to a large number of 

 farmers. Raise peanuts, now mostly im- 

 ported from the Havana market. Raise 

 eggplants, peppers and onions from -Xo- 

 vember till March, when the New York 

 market is offering top prices. Raise beans 

 — lots of them, one of the best paying 

 crops, marvelously well adapted for Cuba's 

 soils, an.l salable at any store, any time 

 in the year. 



If a farmer will raise live stock or con- 

 duct a dairy, he should realize the feeding 

 value of sugar cane. Corn and vest beans 

 on the same ground and harvested by the 

 hogs will pay splendid profits. But don't 

 forget to give to the hogs plenty of fresh 

 water and charcoal or there might be 

 trouble with the cholera. — Paul Karutc, In- 

 dustrial Agent, Cuba Railroad. 



Fruit (irowers W'ill Organize 



The fruit growers and shippers of Cuba 

 are trying to get together to organize an 

 exchange, similar to those in Florida and 

 California. 



Those interested have been hard at work 

 for two years and are confident that at the 

 commg meeting, which has been called for 

 October 8th in Havana, the organization 

 will be completed. Circulars have been 

 sent to about five hundred of the principal 

 growers asking for data on the estimated 

 crop of fruits and vegetables for the com- 

 ing year. 



The officers for 1910 are: President. Col. 

 H. E. Havens. Herradura : secretarv, H. C. 

 Hendricksen, Havana, and treasurer, H. A. 

 ^ an Hermann, Santiago de las Vegas. 



The Cuba Review has received a copv 

 of the fourth annual report of the Cuban 

 National Horticultural Societv for 1910. 

 from the secretary of the societv. Mr. H 

 C. Henrick=en. of Havana. 



This report gives in full the proceedings 

 of ihe meeting which was held in Havana 

 last January, gives the papers and speeches 

 in full, and gives other information of 

 great value to Cuban horticulturists and 

 a.yriculturists. 



The I-"aniier and Ili.s Land 



The farmer and his land cannot prosper 

 until stock raising is an inseparable ad- 

 junct of agriculture. The natural increase 

 of animals, the dairy products, the meat 

 market pnxlucts, create the wealth of such 

 countries a.~ Holland, and may and should 

 l)c valual)le revenue producers on every 

 farm. Hogs can be raised at small cost 

 of food or labor and bring a sure income. 

 Still more important is the fact that of 

 all forage fed to livestock at least one- 

 third in cash value remains on the land in 

 the form of manure that will aid in re- 

 storing exhausted land to fertility and 

 maintaining good land at its highest pro- 

 ductive point. — Janies J. Hill. 



To Establish a Colony 



The Era Xueva Mission and Industrial 

 School Syndicate is described in a recent 

 issue of the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader. 



The object of this syndicate is to estab- 

 lish a colony in Cuba for the education 

 and training of men in practically every 

 l)ranch of work in which mankind is en- 

 gaged. 



A university is to be erected at a de- 

 sirable location and made the center of 

 the cultured members of the colony. 



The money is coming from wealthy 

 philanthropists, and no money-grabbers will 

 I)c allowed to become interested in the 

 project and turn the colony into a money- 

 making organization. So says Dr. A. E. 

 Schade. well known in Cleveland. He 

 states further that 150.000 acres of land, on 

 which is located the most beautiful moun- 

 tain 8,000 feet high, has been secured. On 

 the mountain will be erected facilities for 

 making it a summer resort for Cubans and 

 a winter resort for other nationalities. The 

 shore line contains an excellent harbor, the 

 timber being mahogany and other expen- 

 sive varieties. 



But little rain has fallen in Nuevitas 

 and vicinity. Camaguey Province, since 

 last Januarj-. and orange and grape fruit 

 orchards have suffered severely. 



