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INFORMATION FOR THE AMERICAN SETTLER 



TOO MUCH RELIANCE ON ONE CROP — BANANA MEAL— SHORT PINE- 

 APPLE SUPPLY — HONEY CROP 



The One-Crop idea 



A tri)) iliroiigh the tobacco-growing sec- 

 tion of Pinar del Rio will show farms 

 which have had large fields planted to to- 

 bacco this year, but not a single row of 

 vegetables can be seen about the house, 

 says J.a Lticlia. There is nothing grow- 

 ing on which the family could depend for 

 food if the advance money on the crop 

 gives out before the crop is marketed. Few 

 fowls surround the house, no domestic ani- 

 mals, such as cattle and hogs, which assist 

 in making the living of the country people. 

 Every dependence is placed on the gamble 

 of the tobacco crop, and if tiiat number 

 fails to turn up, there is a family thrown 

 ujion the public bounty to support. 



Failing in one crop, the people have had 

 al)solutely nothing to fall back upon. No 

 diversification of crops, no preparations in 

 the way of vegetables or fruits to till the 

 mouths of the children when the credit at 

 the store gives out. Families live on one 

 patch of ground for generations and not 

 a guava, mango, aguacate, orange, lime, or 

 any kind of fruit is attempted, when the 



iiKTc i)lacing of a seed in the ground years 

 before would have now been producing 

 fruit that would do its share to support 

 a family. 



Canned Mangoes 



There is a splendid opportunity for the 

 investment of American capital in establish- 

 ing canning factories for canning and pre- 

 serving mangoes, guavas, and kindred 

 troi)ical fruits, which will not bear shipment 

 to the United States in their natural state. 



The mango, sliced and canned in heavy 

 sirup, is delicious, and needs only to be 

 properly placed on the markets of the world 

 to fmd a ready and constantly increasing 

 demand.— -L'. 5. Consular Report. 



Tobaccos grown in Pennsylvania from 

 Cuban seed from the Vuelta Abajo district, 

 in their new environment even in the 

 first generation, almost entirely lack their 

 normal aromatic character, although they 

 do not at once assume that of the tobaccos 

 thoroughly acclimated in the State. — U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture Report. 



I cga dc labaco, cii Pcnsil-^aii::: ,; . ,/ ,ic 



colgar las liojas cu listoncs, coiv.u ic tLn^Hn^cn lus tabladus y la clasc dc ca>i\js que sc nsan 

 para Hevar el labaco al cobcrtizo donde se cura. El tabaco que se produce en esta region pro- 

 ceaente de la semilla del tabaco de Vuelta Abajo pierde su cuatidad aromdtica aun desde la pri- 



mera plantacion. 



A Pennsylvania field of tobacco during harvest, showing the way the stalks are strung on laths, 

 the manner of Ecaffolding, and the type of wagon need in hauling the tobacco to the cur- 

 ing shed. 



