. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REl'IEJr. Home Mixing Scene, Herradura, Province of Pinar del Rio habits have been cultivated by a great many of our fertiUzer manufacturers, especially those managing locally organized companies. These have not been any too careful in the selection and use of the raw materials employed to make up their goods, nor in re- quiring definitel}^ that their manufactured products conform to the analysis under which they are sold. The trying period of the fertilizer industry into which we are entering, will, however, sift the chaff from the wheat, and we believe that it wil
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REl'IEJr. Home Mixing Scene, Herradura, Province of Pinar del Rio habits have been cultivated by a great many of our fertiUzer manufacturers, especially those managing locally organized companies. These have not been any too careful in the selection and use of the raw materials employed to make up their goods, nor in re- quiring definitel}^ that their manufactured products conform to the analysis under which they are sold. The trying period of the fertilizer industry into which we are entering, will, however, sift the chaff from the wheat, and we believe that it will not be long before only the solid substantial companies putting out worthy and meritorious goods in which implicit confidence can be had, will continue to supph' the demand for fertihzers in Cuba. The prospects of the fertilizer industry here at present are similar to those con- fronting practically every other industry, not only here but throughout the world. Througliout the United States wheat, corn, cotton, peanut, rice, fruit and truck growers have all felt the influence of smaller demand and lower prices. Just so in Cuba, the growers of our principal crops, sugar and tobacco, have found the demand much below nonnal, and prices obtainable very much low'er than even the cost at which these pro- ducts are being grown, with the result that the greater the crop the heavier the loss. Naturally no incentive remains for the use of fertilizers, especially on a crop like cane, which stands in the field for so long and is harvested at such a late date after planting, as to enable calculations regarding the possible price to be obtained therefor to be rather hazardous. Therefore, we believe that in the cane industry fertihzers will be used only by those whose lands without fertilizer would produce so little as not to return the cultivation expense, or by those who are so favorably situated as to enable them to pro- duce with extraordinary cheapness. But this condition must be only t
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