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dc otras nacionalidades, que pareccn apreciar la inagotable riqucza de aquel suelo mejor 

 que los naturales del pais. 



VEKDLRAS EXTRANJERAS QUE SE RECIBEN EN ESTA PLAZA. 



Como asunto de interes y con el proposito de dar a los cubanos una idea de las 

 vcrduras que se reciben en Nueva York procedentes de paises extraujeros, a continuacion 

 mencionamos algunas que vienen de Europa y otros lugares. 



Los esparragos recibidos de Francia y de Belgica estan escasos, cotizandose a muy 

 altos precio-s, vendicndosc los esparragos blancos franccscs dc 7 a 8 centavos el niazo 

 alcanzando algunas voces mayor prccio, si bien los mazos pcquenos de esparragos verdes 

 belgas, se venden a $1.00. De Roterdam se recibio esta semana un cargamento de zana- 

 horias, de Nueva Orleans vienengrandes cargamentos de achicoria y escarola, pero se 

 cotizan tan alto que las existencias procedentes de Francia y de Belgica se venden a 

 buenos precios. Los rabanos picantcs se reciben a menudo de varios puntos de Europa, 

 vendiendose gencralmente a unos cinco centavos la libra. La escarola belga se cotiza dc 

 12 a 15 centavos la libra, cuyo precio satisface a los exportadores. Las existencias de 

 alcachofas francesas son abundantes, habiendose cotizado ultimamente a razon de $2.00 la 

 doccna. De California se ha rccibido enestos ultimos dias varias consignaciones de 

 vcrduras, casi todas frescas, pero los precios obtenidos ban sido demasiado bajos para 

 dar motivo a nuevas consignaciones, y lo unico que se recibe de California al presente son 

 tomates, que llegan en abundancia y tiencn activa demanda, cotizandose de $2.00 a 

 $2.25 la caja pequena, que contiene unos 9 litros. Las habas, chalote, lechuga y otras 

 verduras para ensalada se estan recibiendo de Nueva Orleans en grandes cantidades, 

 cotizandose a muy buenos precios, sobre todo la lechuga que obticne de $8.00 a $10.00 

 por bocoy. Tambien se reciben de la Florida habichuelas, guisantes, berenjenas, pimien- 

 tos, lechugas, calabazas, tomates y otras verduras que se cotizan a precios satisfactorios, 

 lo que demuestra que los agricultores cubanos tendrian grandes oportunidades para 

 obtener buenos precios si exportasen sus productos ahora. 



Sugar in November. 



Importation of Japanese Suggested for the Cuban Cane Fields. Large 

 Numbers Employed on Hawaiian Sugar Estates. 



Specially written for The Cuba Review by Willett & Gray, of New York. 



SUGAR in November is generally a quiet subject to write about and this year is no 

 exception. 

 The European beet crop is under manufacture but scarcely on the market 

 to any extent. The Cuba and West India crops are still in the canefields. The 

 Louisiana and Texas cane crops are only beginning. All crops are surrounded with such 

 uncertainty as to make the month of November a month of guesswork rather than of 

 settled facts. As regards the Cuba crop which has already passed through several 

 periods of guessing at results, there is still another such period close at hand. A few 

 months ago prospects warranted the expectation of one of the largest crops on record. 



Then came the insurrection which threatened (if continued to the crop maturity), to 

 cut the estimates in half, then the U. S. intervened and restored conditions to the first 

 level in all respects except as to labor. Now, close at hand, is the labor problem UDon 

 which depends the cutting of the cane to keep the factories going. The end of the in- 

 surrection has by no means settled the labor problem. 



The negroes who are the cane cutters have had a taste in the war of living without 

 working and their nature is such that they may be disinclined now to work for a hvuig, 

 to the extent that is necessary to harvest the full crop. A suggestion to meet this difficulty 

 may be acceptable just now taken from the methods of our domestic beet sugar industry. 



Contracts are made with the leader of a band of Japanese in San Francisco to 

 furnish the requisite labor for making and harvesting a beet crop in Utah or Idaho or 

 elsewhere. The Jap brings his laborers, camps them out in tents, feeds them on rice and 

 does all that is required for a certain sum per acre. These Jap communities are now 

 about through with their beet root engagement and might be induced to transfer them- 

 selves to plantations in Cuba for the cane cutting campaign. The U. S. would undoubt- 

 edly see that these colonists were protected during their stay in the island. The Japs 

 have been employed in large numbers on Hawaiian sugar estates. 



While this uncertainty exists regarding the labor question, the market for sugar in 



