. The Cuba review. 26 THE CUBA Improved Native Hut in Cuba. Farming in Camaguey Province. E. W. Locke, of Alinas, Cuba, writes in the Southern RuraHst, regarding farming life in his section, from which the follow- ing extracts are taken : Our money crops here are potatoes, beans, peas, onions, melons, corn, cabbage, to- matoes, bananas, peanuts and grapefruit. We grow three crops of corn in a year. The Irish potato does the best planted in November and we grow good crops of them. The Cuban field corn does better than other varieties. The farmers here never use fertilizer or manure, an
. The Cuba review. 26 THE CUBA Improved Native Hut in Cuba. Farming in Camaguey Province. E. W. Locke, of Alinas, Cuba, writes in the Southern RuraHst, regarding farming life in his section, from which the follow- ing extracts are taken : Our money crops here are potatoes, beans, peas, onions, melons, corn, cabbage, to- matoes, bananas, peanuts and grapefruit. We grow three crops of corn in a year. The Irish potato does the best planted in November and we grow good crops of them. The Cuban field corn does better than other varieties. The farmers here never use fertilizer or manure, and they do not irrigate; but they do cultivate all the year around, because their crops are grown mostly in their grapefruit groves. Mr. Henry Colby planted one barrel of Irish potatoes in his yard and harvested $ worth. He sent them to Camaguey and they returned him $ Mr. Gilson planted one-half barrel of Irish potatoes on his lots last fall. He dug and sold $ worth and he sold $ worth at his door. A part of the seed rotted and he planted white beans, and he sold them for $ Onions do well here and retail from 5 to 7 cents a pound. Reans are another good crop and are sold by the farmers at wholesale for 5 cents a pound. Peanuts produce a goocf crop and sell for $ a hundred. I sold my cabbage for 70 cents a dozen, big and little. They were all good, hard heads. Red kidney beans retail for 10 cents a pound and they produce a good crop. There is good money in eggs and poultr\' here. The farmers raise corn, kaftir corn, broom corn, sorghum, sunflowers and cow peas for poultry; also sweet potatoes and pea- nuts: and the feed costs next to nothing. Eggs sell for 20 to 25 cents a dozen all the year here, and Camaguey eggs usu- ally bring 35 to 40 cents a dozen. The farmers raise chickens here all the year. Insects are not troublesome. Chick- ens sell for 20 cents a pound dressed. In Camaguey fowls bring a dollar apiece. The farmers are raising a good many
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