THE CUBA R E V I E W 



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General testinion}- comes from Cuban 

 officials and public alike that to Mrs. 

 Jeannette Ryder ''above ail others, and 

 beyond all others, is due the marvelous 

 progress made in Cuba in changing con- 

 ditions from the humane point of view." 

 Her treatment by the judges when she 

 comes into court with her cases, the 

 loyalt}' to her of almost the entire police 

 force, the unqualified endorsement of her 

 work, her methods, her wisdom, by so able 

 and honored a public man as General 

 Riva, are witnesses, entirely apart from 

 our observations, to her extraordinary- 

 genius as a leader in our common cause. 



Mrs. Rj'der is an American lady, the 

 wife of a leading American physician in 

 Havana, who something like eleven years 

 ago taking up her residence in that Cuban 

 cit}-, at that time unable to speak the 

 language of the country, saw the multi- 

 tudinous evidences on every hand of 

 cruelty to the animal world about her, and, 

 practialh' alone, sustained at first only l.y 

 her husband's confidence and support, 

 consecrated her life to the cause of justice 

 as against injustice, of kindness as against 

 cruelty. — F. H. R. in Our Dumb Auiu.ais. 

 Boston, Mass. 



CUBA WANTS TO BUY 



St. Louis is making a bid for the Cu- 

 bans' business. In 1910 it shipped $62S,0S9, 

 and, to give you some idea of what is be- 

 ing done in the southeast, the port of Mo- 

 bile handled in ^lay, 1911, exports to Cuba 

 amounting to $884^000. 



During 1910 Cuba bought $142,260 worth 

 of canned peaches, pears and apricots ; of 

 this amount we only furnished $87,780, yet 

 the duty on above from this countrj' is onh^ 

 IdVa per cent, while all other countries 

 must pay 32% per cent. 



Cuba bought in 1910 : Cotton goods, 

 $10,000,000, United States selling $1,250,- 

 000: iron and steel, $1,250,000, United 

 States selling $4,000,000; manufactured 

 wood, $2,500,000, United States seUing 

 $1,500,000 ; corn, wheat and cereals, 

 $13,500,000, from United States $6,500,000; 

 fruits and vegetables, $5,000,000, from 

 United States $1,500,000: shoes. $4,000,000, 

 from United States, $3,000.000 : the United 

 States furnishes all the typewriters and 

 bicycles, most of the sugar-grinding ma- 

 chinery and agricultural machinery and 

 implements. 



Cuba offers a splendid market for bed 

 springs, furniture, paints and colors, 

 wagons and farm implements and cotton 

 goods. 



It is not often that a customer, bm-ing 

 over one hundred million dollars per j-ear, 

 comes to the manufacturer and tells him 

 he wants to buv, as a rule the manufacturer 



is exerimg every effort to show and sell 

 lus products ; but here is Cuba, a little over 

 a hundred miles from our extreme south- 

 ern coast, standing ready to buy from this 

 country over hundred million dollars' 

 worth of goods if we will but take the 

 tune and trouble to sell them. — C. H. Whit- 

 tiugtoii, consul for Cuba at Atlanta, Ga. 



FINE HORSES WANTED 



A special agricultural commission from 

 Cuba arrived m Xew York recentlv to buy 

 a hundred or more of the best Kentucky 

 thoroughbreds and a shipload of other 

 American animals for breeding purposes. 

 The commission is composed of Luis 

 Perez, assistant secretary of agriculture of 

 Cuba; Emilio Luaces, chief of the Depart- 

 ment of Animal Industry at the Govern- 

 ment Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 and Honore F. Laine, professor of ani- 

 mal husbandry of the University of Ha- 

 vana. 



Dr. Luaces in an interview given the 

 Washington (.D. C.) Post, said further re- 

 •^arding the work of the commission as 

 follows : 



"What Cuba needs in an agricultural 

 way more than anj^thing else is diversified 

 farming Under Spanish rule, the people 

 of the island were given no encouragement 

 to improve their condition. Sugar and 

 tobacco were the two crops that Spain 

 cared for, because these crops yielded good 

 revenue. The Spanish government didn't 

 care for the farmers themselves, and 

 made no effort to improve their condition. 



"Such a thing as truck farming hardly 

 was known in Cuba until the last year 

 or two. There isn't an}- kind of a vege- 

 table that cannot be grown in Cuba, yet 

 the people have been sending to New 

 Orleans for their melons, tomatoes and 

 other fruits and vegetables. 



"It is the purpose of Secretary Qunco 

 to teach the pupils at the six agricultural 

 schools how to raise fruits and vegetables, 

 and at the same time to experiment with 

 breeding thoroughbred stock. Until the 

 last year or two we had no thoroughbred 

 cattle in Cuba. It is our purpose now to 

 buy in the L^nited States the best thorough- 

 bred cattle, horses, hogs, sheep and 

 poultry we can find. 



RACING SEASON ASSURED 



The new race track at Havana will be 

 one of the most up-to-date that has ever 

 been erected. The lumber for the erection 

 of the stables has alread\- been shipped 

 from Jacksonville and they will be built 

 first, so that the horsemen can go right into 

 them on arriving in Cuba, says the Nezu 

 York Telegraph. The track will be then 

 completed, so as to enable horses to work 



