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ing streets and roads clean of brush and 

 weeds. 



The sawmill, shingle mill, and planer are 

 in daily operatit)n, the bnilding enclosing 

 the same being 40x80 feet. The fnll ont- 

 fit. inchiding fnrnitnre factory, wagon shop, 

 lath and box factory, veneer saw, portable- 

 house factory, ice plant, and electric light 

 plant, will be running within the next few 

 months. 



The school has closed for vacation after 

 a successful term of eight monihs. Arrange- 

 ments are being made to open a high school 

 the first Monday in September. 



There are nine languages represented 

 among the Omaja colonists, viz.. English. 

 Spanish. German, French. Swedish. Nor- 

 wegian. Danish and Dutch, and six resi- 

 dent ministers take turns in preaching in 

 the schoolhouse Sunday mornings and 

 evenings. Omaja is the chief mission center 

 of the German Baptists in Cuba. 



Mr. William Carleton has a lot of men 

 at work planting their first 100 acres of 

 citrus fruits. They will follow this with 

 a full section. 640 acres, in November and 

 December. 



Tomatoes will be largely planted in 

 Omaja next fall for the northern market. 

 Many of the plants set out last September 

 and .October are still producing tomatoes 

 of a good quality, in spite of the prolonged 

 dry spell. These plants produced many 

 specimens weighing over a pound each. 



Much corn is being planted, there being 

 one field of 100 acres and many others of 

 from five to twenty acres. With corn at 

 $1.25 per bushel bottom price and two crops 

 a year, it is a good crop to plant. 



Splendid rains the last week in May. The 

 nursery trees grew right along through the 

 worst dry spell that Cuba has had in 

 sixty-three years, and many of the trees 

 were successfully budded during this 

 drought. Everybody is now plowing and 

 planting. 



There is a large deposit of sand here of 

 the very best quality. A cement block ma- 

 chine will be put in'^o commission very soon. 



A colony of industrious Finlanders are 

 coming to Omaja. C. E. B. 



Omaja, Cuba, May 30. 1907. 



.\I.F.\LF.\ IN' CIB.V. 

 S.\NTI.\C.O DE L.\.S VeG.VS, 



.May 31. 1907. 

 Editor The Ciha Review and Bulletin, 

 Cii-iitlciHi-ii : — We have tried alfalfa each 

 year at the station, but have failed as yet 

 to obtain a grnd stand of it. It remains 

 now ti> determine if soil inocidation or 

 previous planting of burr clovers would 

 give good results, and these experiments 

 we are undertaking this year. 



Respectfully vours, 

 C. O. Baker, 



Acting Director. 

 [If our readers In C'ul>a have lunilc any experi- 

 ments in the growing of alfalfa, will they kiudly 

 send results to The CUBA HEVIEW Editor.] 



ol'araxtine against insect pests. 



Prof. J. r. Crawley, the director of the 

 Cuban agricultural station, desires the de- 

 l)artment of agriculture to establish a rigid 

 quarantine against insect pests. Cuban 

 planters, he says, are earnestly engaged in 

 developing their industry and displaying 

 that enterprise that has generally char- 

 acterized those engaged in the industry 

 everywhere. In doing this, however, they 

 are liable, by importations of new canes, to 

 bring into the country insect pests which, 

 finding a suitable habitat in Cuba, may de- 

 velop so enormously as to eflfect very gen- 

 eral injury. 



foreign market opening for oranges. 



Consul Chapman Coleman, of Roubaix, 

 France, calls attention to a prospective mar- 

 ket for citrus fruit there. He says Amer- 

 ican oranges are not in evidence in the 

 markets and, it would seem, should find 

 ready sale at seasons when oranges of 

 French and other European origin have not 

 yet matured. No oranges are marketed 

 here in the summer and autumn. With the 

 beginning of winter they first appear, but 

 are sour and of poor quality, generally, and 

 not until March are good ones to be had. 

 The opportune time for the sale here of 

 oranges would be during the six months 

 from September to March ; providing that 

 the fruit can be gotten here in good condi- 

 tion, and that it is oflfered for sale at a 

 fair price. 



The beginnings of an Orange Grove. 

 Los prlnciplos de nn naranjal. 



