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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview15muns (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 REVIEW
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Central IMercedita. and then the yield will be 15 to 25 per cent less than it would have been had the burned eane been cut away and the fields cleaned. The writer visited the sugar plantations of Alameida, Frmita, Fsperanza, Santa .Maria, La Union, and others of minor note in this section of the Province, passed through many thousand acres of cane that had been destroyed by fire and found that no attempt had been made to clear away the old cane. The effect of this, too, will be a large increase in the cost of cutting the cane next year, as the old stalks still in the ground will have to be cut as well as the new cane. A visit was also made to all the sugar cane-growing territory in the Province of (^riente east of the points between Santiago de Cuba, and the writer had a conference with practically every sugar-cane planter of importance in the territory. In the district between Antilla and Santiago de Cuba great destruction of property has been caused by disturbances. "With but one exception, every railway station between these two points has been destroyed, a large number of bridges have been wrecked, and most of the shops along the line have been burned. .All the railway bridges have now been repaired or reconstructed except the one between San Luis and Auza, and this will soon be repaired, leaving a clear roadbed from Habana to Santiago de Cuba. In the section of Oriente Province referred to, the rainy season has now .set in, and there will be practically no grinding until Decemb3r next, nor will it be possible to repair the damages in the burnt area. Mare Favorable Conditions in Other Sections. While there were many thousand acres of cane burned between Alto Cedro and Antilla the planters in this section had, to a large extent, cleared away all the burnt section, and the ratoon was standing well in the field. The spring rains that commence in this section about the middle of I\'ay usually end toward the close of June, so that many of the mills in this section will now start grinding and continue until September. A few of the mills in this dis- trict, notably the Preston :Mill at Xipe i?ay, Tuinucu, and Baragua, will produce about the amount of sugar estimated, but the remainder of the mills will all be between 60 and 70 per

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