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THE CUBA R E \" I E W 



have a great amount of scale is tliat many 

 of her groves were originalK' phmted in 

 strips cleared in the forests. 



"The treatment of orange groves in 

 Cuba is not the same as in Porto Rico. The 

 general practice is to allow the grass to 

 grow in the groves during the rainy 

 season, cutting it as it grows high, and 

 saving it for a mulch to place around the 

 trees during the winter months. This has 

 been practiced during the past season hy 

 many, and good results have been shown." 



The San JManuel and the Chaparra 

 sugar estates in Oriente Province have 

 ordered their attorneys to withdraw their 

 cases in the Supreme Court attacking the 

 constitutionality of the ports improvement 

 law- recenth' passed by the Cuban congress. 

 There were originally eight suits attack- 

 ing the constitutionality of the law. but 

 with the withdrawal of the San INIanuel 

 cases all have been abandoned. 



Cuban shoe manufacturers are incensed 

 at learning that the footwear .required by 

 the rural guard and the permanent army 

 will be bought in foreign countries instead 

 of at home. They claim that as good shoes 

 are made in Cuba as well as reasonable 

 in cost as anywhere else. 



BEET AND CANE MOLASSES 



]\Iolasses from beet and cane sugar are 

 almost identical, both in appearance and 

 physical properties, although the color of 

 the former is usually a little darker than 

 that of cane molasses, while the latter 

 possesses a more pleasant smell. 



In feeding it to stock, notice must be 

 taken of the fact that the alkaline salts 

 in molasses, particularly in beet molasses, 

 serve as irritants to the kidneys, with the 

 effects that may be expected from them. 



One of the reasons why molasses bought 

 in Europe is likely to contain a compara- 

 tively high percentage of water is that it 

 has probably, as a matter of convenience, 

 being made more fluid by blowing steam 

 through it. The food value of such mo- 

 lasses is inferior, and it is very likely to 

 ferment and become useless for the pur- 

 pose for which it is required. 



There is ample proof that in moderate 

 quantities molasses is a useful and eco- 

 nomical food for all classes of larger 

 stock. It is necessary, however, to give 

 proper attention to the fact that the feed- 

 ing of large quantities of molasses, even 

 where the laxative effect does not become 

 great, is likely to be uneconomical, on ac- 

 count of the reduction of the digestibility 

 of the other foods through the presence 

 of large amounts of sugar. — Agricultural 

 Nczvs.^ 



Notes From the Isle of Pines 



The 1911 parrot "crop" will be short, 

 and it is doubtful if more than 2,800 of 

 the birds will be shipped from the Isle 

 of Pines this year. Up to the present 

 time only 1,000 birds have been sent 

 north. A disease has affected the young 

 birds this year and hundreds of them have 

 died in their nests. 



Outgoing mails leave the Isle of Pines 

 Sunday at 6 a. m. and at 3.30 p. m., Tues- 

 day at 3.30 p. m., Thursday at 8 p. m. 

 and Friday at 3.30 p. m, Mails arrive Sun- 

 day, Tuesday, Wednesday. Friday and 

 Saturday in the mornings. 



A sudden illness caused the death on 



July 14th of Andrew Gunderson, one of 



the pioneers and well-known colonists of 

 Los Indios. 



The annoyance suft'ered by the Amer- 

 icans in the Isle of Pines because of the 

 delay in issuing deeds for property has 

 become insufferable. At present all deeds 

 must go to Havana for the affixing of the 

 government tax, a task that takes some 

 ten or fifteen minutes when the clerks 

 once get at it. Deeds are frequently kept 

 in Havana three months and seldom are 

 returned to the Isle of Pines in less than 

 six weeks, says the Appeal. In addition 

 to the apparent inconvenience of this 

 method, many sales are lost here because 

 of the seller's inability to deliver a deed 

 at once. By the present method, rapid 

 transfer of property is impossible. Be- 

 tween 600 and 1,000 deeds are issued 

 annually for Americans. The Central 

 Association proposes to use its influence 

 towards remedying this injustice. 



The new bridge across the Nuevas 

 River at ]\icKinley is finished, and only 

 the grading remains to be done, when it 

 will be thrown open to the public. 



It will be an improvement long hoj)ed 

 for by the public. 



2\Irs. Doyle, wife of E. A. Doyle, of 

 the Isle of Pines, died August 2d after a 

 lingering sickness. Burial took place at 

 Columbia Cemetery. 



The docks at Siganea Bay are nearly 

 completed. 



