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THE CUBA R E V I P: W 



NEW BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC., RECEIVED 



The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company of 

 Jersey City, N. J., has iust puhHshed a 

 very neat folder entitled "Maintenance 

 Painting for Electric Railways." It gives 

 excellent photographs of street railway 

 viaducts, power plant stacks and car 

 trucks painted with Dixon's silica-graphite 

 paint. Cooies will be sent to anyone in- 

 terested in economic railway maintenance. 



"Cacao Culture in the West Indies" is 

 the title of a booklet published by the 

 Agricultural Bureau of the German Kali 

 Works, Havana, Cuba. It is printed in 

 English, Spanish and French, and its aim 

 IS to give the planter such information as 

 -may help him to solve the problem, daily 

 •confronting him on his plantation. 



The Havana office of the company is at 

 :30 Empadrado, where the book may be 

 obtained. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station of 

 the University of Illinois, U. S. A., issues 

 Bulletin No. 123, on the "Fertility in Illi- 

 nois Soils," by Cyril G. Hopkins and 

 James H. Pettit. The bulletin aims to 

 furnish definite facts and necessary infor- 

 mation regarding Illinois soils, and rep- 

 resents six years' work. There is a col- 

 ored soil map and many half-tone illustra- 

 tions of growing crops. 



The Hacendado .Mcxicanos' yearly sugar 

 report for the crops of 1910-1'.)] 1 has re- 

 cently come to hand. It is a book of some 

 90 pages and contains valuable articles and 

 statistics regarding sugar production in 

 Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Ha- 

 waiian Islands, Porto Rico, Java and other 

 countries. 



A description of the new model of the 

 "Lillie Multiple"-effect evaporators, made 

 by the Sugar Apparatus Mfg. Co. of 

 Philadelphia, is contained in a well-printed 

 booklet, issued by the company. It con- 

 tains numerous half-tones of sugar houses 

 and many valuable tables. 



The annual report of the Hawaii Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station for 1910 has 

 just been issued and covers a rich variety 

 of subjects, which will be touched upon 

 in later issues of The Cuba Review. 



There are special reports of experiments 

 in the propagation, insect control and va- 

 rieties of the "avocado" or alligator pear, 

 of the mango, pawpaw and citrus fruits. 

 There is also the report of the station 

 chemist on investigations in rice, pineapple 

 soils, cotton and rubber. The illustrations 

 in the report show fine fields of caravonica 

 cotton, and budding work on an avocado. 



Cemetery at Nuevitas. The vaults are above ground and the semi-circular opening after inter- 

 ment is sealed with cement. A mortuary tablet is then placed on the cement surface. 



El Cementerio en Nuevitas. Las bovedas estdn encima del suclo- y despiies del enticrro se 

 cierra la entrada con cemento. Entonves se pone una plancha vnortuaria en la snperficie de 



cemento. 



