THE CUBA REVIEW 



21 



Foodstuffs 



The Department of Agi'iculture, Com- 

 merce and Labor has pubhshed the follow- 

 ing figures regarding articles of food 

 imported by Cuba during the eight months 

 •ending August 31, 1921: 



Valued at 



Hams and shoulders, 314,698 lbs $112,674 



Lard, 50,222,973 lbs 7,091,874 



Eggs, 10,597,796 doz 3,509,181 



Bacon, 20,020,210 lbs 2,913,921 



Butter, 485,171 lbs 211,325 



Cheese, 1,200,387 lbs 383,178 



Condensed, evaporated and other forms of 



milk, 23,245,341 lbs 4,246,549 



Cottonseed oil, 5,170,004 lbs 1,455,473 



Wheat flour, 706,640 sacks 6,355,582 



Salt pork, 1,074,732 lbs 180,608 



Butter substitutes, 5,990,313 lbs 728,628 



Cattle Resources 



According to statistics issued by the 

 Cuban Department of Agriculture, Com- 

 merce and Labor, the wealth of the 

 Cuban Republic in livestock has increased 

 as follows since 1915: 



Percentags 

 Totals Increase 



in 5 years 

 r-ot+i^ (1915 3,703,928 head) „o a ^^. „^„t 



^a"le |i920 4,592,503 headl 23-8 per cent 



w„„.. (1915 720,040 head) if.7„„, „^„ + 



Horses 1^920 840,522 headj 16.7 per cent 



T\/r 1 (1915 54,264 head) on c: „„„ „„„<. 



M^les 1^920 7o;e9g i^g^dj 30.5 per cent 



Asses !^915 2,882 head) , - 



■*^^*^® U920 3,310 head) ^^ percent 



Exports of Agricultural Implements 

 to Cuba 



Exports of implements to Cuba for the 

 first nine months of 1921 show a decrease 

 of $270,669 as compared with the cor- 

 responding period of 1920. As tractors 

 are not included in the total for 1920 

 and are included in that for 1921, the total 

 decrease in exports of implements to Cuba, 

 excluding tractors, is $305,909. The value 

 of tractors and parts exported is $35,240, 

 these figures being for the period beginning 

 April 1, 1921, from which date tractors have 

 been classified under agricultural imple- 

 ments. However, an unusually large vol- 

 ume of business was done with Cuba in 

 1920, the total value of implements ex- 

 ported during that year being $1,591,672, 

 while for the preceding year it amounted 

 to only $589,932, which is $149,391 less 

 than the value of implements exported 

 during the first nine months of the current 

 year. 



"Plows and cultivators" show the 

 largest total for the first nine months of 



1920, while for the same period in 1921 "all 

 others" lead in value, showing a very 

 large increase over 1920, while "plows and 

 cultivators" show a considerable decrease. 

 "Mowers and reapers" increased 812,790 

 in 1921, while all other classifications de- 

 creased, the totals being small in all cases. 

 In the table below are given the compara- 

 tive figures of exports of implements for 

 the first nine months of 1920 and 1921. 



Exports of implements fi om the United States 



to Cuba during the first nine months 



of 1920 and 1921 



First nine 

 Article months of — 



1920 1921 



Tractors: 



Complete $24,235 



Parts of 11,005 



Hayrakes and tedders $1,831 1 , 309 



Mowers and reapers 9,896 22,686 



Planters and seeders 363 162 



Plows and cultivators 427,716 126,037 



Thrashers 3,185 



All other 55,005 477,409 



Parts of 511,996 76,480 



Total iSl,009,992 739,323 



Cuban Importation and Consumption 

 of Rice 



The normal consumption of rice in Cuba 

 is about 120,000 bags (224 pounds per bag) 

 per month, but at present, owing to the 

 financial depression, the consumption has 

 dropped to about 100,000 bags per month. 



While most of the rice is now coming 

 from French Indo-China, some is being 

 imported from Siam, the United States, 

 and Spain. Formerly large quantities were 

 imported from India, but for the past two 

 years no direct shipments were received, as 

 a result of the embargo on the exportation 

 of rice from that country. As soon as the 

 embargo is lifted, it is expected that im- 

 ports from India will exceed all others. 

 During the past two months sales of Ameri- 

 can rice increased owing to the above- 

 mentioned embargo, to the lifting of the 

 embargo on the importation of rice into 

 Cuba by the presidential decree of Juh^ 1, 

 1921, and to the fact that supplies were 

 available for immediate shipment. The 

 latest published statistics show the quan- 

 tity and value of rice imported into Cuba 



