. The Cuba review and bulletin. -carding the cloth covering, setting up in->tead wind shields in the rows. Onegrower, continued Col. Havens, had 13acres under cover and sold his croD for$22,coo. Labor and seed brought up thecost to $7,000, leaving a handsome mar-gin of profit. Seed is sown in Se])temberand plants set out six weeks later. Usu-ally cutting begins in November, thisyear about January, owing to windstorms, which destroyed many plants. The seedis homc-erown. as northern seed will notanswer. It can be purchased from thenatives for about $2 1 er pound. Cubanssow the seed wastefully
. The Cuba review and bulletin. -carding the cloth covering, setting up in->tead wind shields in the rows. Onegrower, continued Col. Havens, had 13acres under cover and sold his croD for$22,coo. Labor and seed brought up thecost to $7,000, leaving a handsome mar-gin of profit. Seed is sown in Se])temberand plants set out six weeks later. Usu-ally cutting begins in November, thisyear about January, owing to windstorms, which destroyed many plants. The seedis homc-erown. as northern seed will notanswer. It can be purchased from thenatives for about $2 1 er pound. Cubanssow the seed wastefully. The U. S. Ag-ricultural Reports suggest a thimblefulfor 10 s(|uare feet. The best fertilizer iswell rotted stable manure, although manyuse commercial fertilizers for reasonsalready given. There are numerous in-sect pests which must be closely tobacco worm eats holes in the leaf,and naturally such tobacco brinks a poorurice. Col. Havens thinks Cuba is thehealthiest country anvwhere and neverfelt better in his
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