. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 27 the helpless condition of the Cuban farmer. As he cannot read, the pamphlets issued from time to time by the station are of no use to him. This ignorance is great and natural under such conditions. He still believed, in this twentieth century, that the full moon produces tetanus in his cattle, although the farmers in the neighborhood of the station are enlightened in this regard having seen the curative work of Dr. Luaces on their horses, and received his professional advice. The farmer's ignorance brings much un- intentional suffering to their stock and o
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 27 the helpless condition of the Cuban farmer. As he cannot read, the pamphlets issued from time to time by the station are of no use to him. This ignorance is great and natural under such conditions. He still believed, in this twentieth century, that the full moon produces tetanus in his cattle, although the farmers in the neighborhood of the station are enlightened in this regard having seen the curative work of Dr. Luaces on their horses, and received his professional advice. The farmer's ignorance brings much un- intentional suffering to their stock and only one instance will suffice to show this. Young oxen have trouble with their te^th forming. Their gums become sore and they avoid food because the process of mastication is painful. Being ignorant of the true condition of the animal the farmer has in his ignorance classed it as a disease wliich requires most radical treatment. And it has come to pass that when an animal is afflicted in this way and refuses food and drools at the mouth that igiaorance plus ignorance, has established a fiendish custom. The animal is taken to the blacksmith who, with a knife matle red hot, cuts the membrane in the mouth of the animal. A new law suggested by President Menocal takes the station's affairs entirely out of the politicians' hands. Prof. J. T. Crawley, director of the station, is rapidly getting his work in hand and he hopes, by the first of the fiscal year, to be able to start out with competent help and a full complement of experts which will once more place the Cuban experiment station on the high plane it occupied in former years. CACAO INSECT PESTS In an article on "Entomological Pests and Problems of Southern Nigeria," by A. D. Peacock, in Bulletin of Entomolo'jical Researcfi, London, 1913, the writer gives an account of the results of a journey made in Southern Nigeria with the object of studying the economic conditions of the colony in connec- tion with the insect pes
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