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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
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more favorable here than in any part of the Southern States. The lines already discussed, sugar cane, tobacco, fruit and vegetable growing, arethe principal ones attracting attention at the present time. Coffee growing was oncean important industry in Cuba, but the high price of labor seems to prohibit itsplanting except for home consumption. Owing to a protective tariff the price nowobtained for Cuban coffee is very high. Cacao is but little planted, although many parts of the country are well adaptedto its growth, and the business, ifproperly conducted, would doubtlessprove profitable. There are a great many otherproducts that might well receive at-tention : Corn, beans and rice areall imported in large quantities;these can all be grown here anddoubtless it would be more profitableto grow than to import them. Thegrowing of rice, in particular, seemsto offer a very attractive field; greatareas of land suitable for it, can be PALMICHI,FRUIT OFTHE ROYAL PALM, USEDAS A FODDER FOR SWINE.
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bought very cheaply, so located that irrigation would be easyand mexpensive. The same methods of planting and harvesting with ma-chinery, so successfully adopted in Louisiana and Texas, wouldbe equally applicable here.The demand for nursery stock for orchard planting is destined to increase rapidly.Besides citrus fruits there will be a demand for budded aguacates and mangoes, of thefiner varieties, and there is a real need of nurseries for propagating other nativefruits and the numberless ornamentals that can be so successfully grown in this coun-try. There would seem to be a field, too, for growing palms and other ornamentals forthe northern greenhouse trade. 44 THE CUBA REVIEW The possibilities of rubber planting are almost unknown in Cuba. The very littlethat has been done in this line has yielded some promising results. The original,magnificent forests of middle and western Cuba have practically all been cut downand destroyed. Some valuable timber still remains in the eastern part

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