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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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Old Castilloa—Rubber Tree. Grows to a greatheight in Cuba. (See article on page 20.) Un arbol viejo de caucho en Cuba, cuyonombre cientifico es Castilloa elastica. Es de di-liiensiones gigantescas, teniendo mas de dos piesde dianietro al pie. El rendimiento cada aiio de■ip-ido V parecido a la crema de estosarboles grandes suele ser de una a dos libras.Terrenos plantados con arboles de caucho debenproducir de $300 a $500 el acre, sin gastos porabonos y cultivo. Hace tanto tiempo como elaiio de rS^o que los Jardines Botanicos de laHabana distribuyeron entre los hacendados lassemillas de este arbol. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin.
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Cuban ox-cart in Palm Avenue, near Havana.Una carreta cubana de buey en la Avenida de las Palmas, cerca a la Habana. ■ing, planting of soil-renovating legumes, the formation of compost heaps,planting of permanent crops of staple value, and all the other operations whichtend to make a farm worth more next year than it is now—there is none of it here.And this can mean but one thing—impoverishment and depreciation in value. Yet even a superficial inspection will convince anyone familiar with the bestmodern intensive methods in tropical agriculture, that places like these possessimmense possibilities under proper management—resident management—for one ofthe common causes of failure in tropical agriculture is non-resident direction—afatal condition at the outset. For what is true of farms of this size anywhere, isequally true in the tropics—they are worth expert management—and under such man-agement are often highly remunerative. Fine cane could just as well begrown here as

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