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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview17muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA R E V I E W 2\J
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Central Occidente, Province of Havana THE SUGAR INDUSTRY USE OF TRACTORS ON CUBAN SUGAR ESTATES The tractors used on the sugar estates of Cuba are of two kinds—ihe round wheel and the track-layer or caterpillar style, and are used almost exclusively for plow- ing. Consul C. S. Winans, Cienfuegos, re- ports that in the northern section of the Cienfuegos Province, owing to the hard, sticky, clayish soils, the caterpillar type seems to be the most successful, as it is claimed that in the use of round-wheel tractors there is a constant slipping of the wheels with the consequent loss of power and breakdowns. In the central and south- ern parts of this district the round-wheel tractors seem the most successful, and they have been found to be very satisfac- tory and economical—more economical when alcohol is used instead of gasoline. In the southern section tractors of S to 16 and li! to 25 horsepower have been used to some extent for hauling pur- poses, as well as in connection with the use of cane-planting machines. Experi- ments have also been made here with the track-layer type in connection with cul- tivating between the rows of cane. The chief objections to this type seem to be that its first cost is very much higher than the round wheel; that it is compli- cated and therefore more liable to break- age, and more difficult for inexperienced operators to handle. Several plantations are to experiment in the use of different kinds of tractors, and especially with the caterpillar type, for the purpose of haul- ing cane. JAMAICAN SUGAR CROP (ESTIMATE Consul C. L. Latham reports from Kingston, Jamaica, that the director of Agriculture of Jamaica estimates the prob- able size of the 1010 crop (export) of sugar from the colony ai 33,000 tons as against 26,0< tons for 1918.

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