THE CUBA REVIEW 



Industries of Cuba — The Henequen Defibering Factory at Nuevitas. 



The company also has a large plantation 

 at Itabo and another at Nuevitas, where it 

 has a factory now in operation, and which 

 has been in operation for some years. 



The Matanzas plant will give employ- 

 ment all the year round to about a thou- 

 sand laborers. 



The plant is easily and profitably grown 

 and will flourish on the poorest of soils. 

 The combined output will exceed the home 

 demand, but it is believed a good export 

 trade can be built up. 



Low Prices for Pineapples 



All stocks of pineapples at auction have 

 shown a lack of color that has caused buy- 

 ers to bid low figures, says the Fruitmaii's 

 Guide of December j7th. There has been 

 a good deal of the fruit in the small sizes 

 that has sold out at below cost to shippers. 

 Buyers seem to be afraid to handle the fruit 

 in any quarter, and at some of the small 

 sales we know of business done in 42s down 

 to 50c. per crate for Cuban stock. If ship- 

 pers could be induced to hold back this 

 small immature fruit until the stock was fit 

 to ship, there would be a better market here 

 and some profit to them on the shipments. 

 In a good many cases Cuban stock seems 



to be undesirable on even the medium sizes, 

 and sales are noted here at $1.75 to $2 per 

 crate for the best in the 24s. A few lots 

 have sold down as low as $1.50 per crate. 

 The 36s in Cuban stock in some cases sold 

 down as low as 75c. per -crate, but as a rule 

 up to $1.25 was asked. There has been a 

 fair sale on 30s in the range of $1 to $1.75 

 per crate as to quality and condition. 



To Grow Cuban Tobacco 



Clark Bros, of Poquonock, Conn., well- 

 known tobacco growers, are going to make 

 a new venture in tobacco raising next year. 



They are convinced that the best pro- 

 gram for the large grower to follow is to 

 raise the Cuban variety under shade, this 

 variety being now in great demand. 



Previous experiments of seven or eight 

 years ago cost the growers and promoters 

 nearly $1,250,000. The present assertion of 

 promoters of shade-grown tobacco enter- 

 prises is that, profiting by the past, experts 

 have succeeded in producing a strain of 

 wrapper leaf that defies competition, that 

 this tobacco is better and cheaper than Su- 

 matra tobacco, that it passes readily for a 

 high grade of Havana leaf and is in great 

 demand for wrapping clear Havana cigars. 



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