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Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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vegetables. In fact, themoisture requirements of tobacco, tomatoes, egg plants and peppers seems to beabout the same. Orange trees on these lands can not be said to have suffered at all.Where well cultivated they are even continuing to put on new growth, but mostorchards arc in a half dormant condition. While these soils have again demonstrated their great droutli-rcsisting i)roi)erties,the fact remains that both tobacco and vegetable growers vvould have profited enor-mously by irrigation. Since this entire region is crossed at intervals of three or fourmiles by fine running streams from the mountains the greater part of it could becheaplybrought under ditch irrigation. The ability even in a season of normal rain-fall to turn on water at pleasure and thus be entirely independent of the weather as totime of jilanting gives such a great advantage in growing crops that it seems certainthat these stream-- which now run to waste will soon be utilized for irrigationpuri)Oses. Jan. I, 1907.
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One of the old blockhouses of Cuba. The Govornment intends to preserve many of these picturesque landmarks. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin.

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