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THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



arc always buyers on the gmund in the 

 season ready to buy good stock at re- 

 munerative prices. Tobacco is as staple 

 as wheat; $1,000 to $3,000 per acre profit is 

 common under cover and $250 to $i,ooc 

 in the ooen air. Some growers are dis- 

 carding the cloth covering, setting up in- 

 >tead wind shields in the rows. One 

 grower, continued Col. Havens, had 13 

 acres under cover and sold his croD for 

 $22,coo. Labor and seed brought up the 

 cost to $7,000, leaving a handsome mar- 

 gin of profit. Seed is sown in Se])tember 

 and plants set out six weeks later. Usu- 

 ally cutting begins in November, this 

 year about January, owing to windstorms, 



which destroyed many plants. The seed 

 is homc-erown. as northern seed will not 

 answer. It can be purchased from the 

 natives for about $2 1 er pound. Cubans 

 sow the seed wastefully. The U. S. Ag- 

 ricultural Reports suggest a thimbleful 

 for 10 s(|uare feet. The best fertilizer is 

 well rotted stable manure, although many 

 use commercial fertilizers for reasons 

 already given. There are numerous in- 

 sect pests which must be closely watched. 

 The tobacco worm eats holes in the leaf, 

 and naturally such tobacco brink's a poor 

 urice. Col. Havens thinks Cuba is the 

 healthiest country anvwhere and never 

 felt better in his life. 



Heir:iilui;i. Ixokiiij: iicith frcni tlip R.Tihvay station. The liuikliufr on the left is the iKitel. 



NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST. 

 From our own Correspondents in Havana and other Cities of Cuba. 



Gen. Gomez's wishes, as it considers him 

 as the supreme chief of all the liberals. 



The Central Committee of Electoral 

 Propaganda will support Gen. Gomez for 

 the presidency. Among the prominent 

 members are Morua Delgado, Col. Manuel 

 Piedra. (Jen. Lara Miret. and Col. Rodolfo 

 Berges. 



A committee from Alquizar. under the 

 direction of the mayor, Senor Rodulfo del 

 Castillo, petitioned Gov. Magoon for a gen- 

 eral amnesty to all convicted criminals of 

 the "army of liberation." 



Political meetings are being held in 

 Matanzas, and the candidacy of Luis Fortun 

 is being advanced. 



.\t a recent meeting of constitutionalists, 

 attended by five constitutional generals, a 

 resolution was passed to call upon the Pro- 

 visional Government for still more dismis- 

 sals from office, of moderates, or those dis- 

 affected in the late revolution. This was 

 signed by Carlos Guas, Dionisia Arencibia, 

 Ricardo Fuster, Generoso Campos, Mar- 

 quetti and Jose Lara Mitet. 



Col. Carlos Aguirre. liberal, has been ap- 

 pointed special school inspector for the 

 Republic of Cuba, with a salary of $2,400 

 per annum. 



A new consular office has been created 

 at St. Louis, and Alberto Samiso has been 

 appointed consul. 



Gen. Jose ?kliguel Gomez disavows any 

 interest in the "Rebelde," in an open letter 

 dated January 24, in which he sa\''s : 



"I see that you have opened an active 

 campaign against our fellow liberal, Licen- 

 tiate Alfredo Zayas, and many times this 

 campaign has taken on an extreme violence. 

 Apart from the Avarmly amicable rela- 

 tions existing between myself and Zayas, 

 there exist the most cordial relations, which 

 impel me to beg you, who are my sin- 

 cere friend, not to pursue the road you 

 have taken." 



The editor replied that it will respect 



