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each, and 1,500,000 eggs, worth 7s. 6d. per 100, were con- 
sumed weekly in the city of Havana, representing together a 
value of £400,000 per annum of home produce. Since the 
end of 1898 comparatively few Cuban fowls or eggs have 
been obtainable, and the Havana market is now princi- 
pally supplied from abroad, the imports of eggs averaging 
900,000, and of fowis 10,000, a week. The price is very little 
higher than formerly to the wholesale dealer, but the amount 
which has to be remitted abroad to pay for them (over 
£200,000) constitutes another not inconsiderable drain on the 
resources of the island. 
Mr. Carden is of opinion that the export of early vegetables 
from Cuba to the United States-would not fail to be pro- 
fitable. For years past, however, potatoes, beans, onions, 
olives, grapes, and other similar produce, which can be suc- 
cessfully grown in Cuba, have been imported in considerable 
quantities from Spain and the Canary Islands, and the 
official returns show that in the last ten years from £100,000 
to £120,000 worth of fresh vegetables were exported 
annually from the United States to Cuba. In 1899 the 
importation of potatoes into the port of Havana alone 
amounted to 1,000,000 bushels, valued at £150,000. 
The forests of Cuba, nevertheless, constitute a source of 
wealth which has not as yet been much worked. Besides 
the forests, which are private property, there are nearly 
1,250,000 acres of timber which belong to the State. 

CEREAL CULTIVATION IN TRIPOLI. 
In areport issued by the Foreign Office relating to the 
resources of Tripoli, Mr. Consul-General Jago states that the 
local methods at the present day employed in the cultivation 
of grain are the same which have obtained for ages past, and 
no attempt to introduce modern methods has ever been made. 
When the first heavy autumnal rains have well saturated 
the ground, the seed is sown broadcast by hand; the 
soil is then ploughed up, and the seed thereby covered. The 
