. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. Spineless Cactus Farm, Cendoj a. Santiago. An excellent specimen showing the original slab and the numerous sprouts which will be used as nursery stock. Spineless Cactus l-arni. <!'endoya, Santiago. Rows of voung plants showing the distance between slabs when planted. Spineless Cactus, grown on land worthless for any other food crop, at $10 per ton amoimts to $250 per acre, or $25,000 as the value of of three waste caballerios or 100 acres, if it proves to be the food claimed and if the stock will continue to eat it. Only three years ago,
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. Spineless Cactus Farm, Cendoj a. Santiago. An excellent specimen showing the original slab and the numerous sprouts which will be used as nursery stock. Spineless Cactus l-arni. <!'endoya, Santiago. Rows of voung plants showing the distance between slabs when planted. Spineless Cactus, grown on land worthless for any other food crop, at $10 per ton amoimts to $250 per acre, or $25,000 as the value of of three waste caballerios or 100 acres, if it proves to be the food claimed and if the stock will continue to eat it. Only three years ago, every spineless cactus plant in the world was growing on a quarter of an acre of ground in the experimental nurseries of Luther Burbank, at Santa Rose, California. During the recent World's Fair in San Francisco, attention was called to the marvellous work accomplished by Burbank in plant life, and especially to the wonderous promise of his Spineless Cactus. This plant is now successfully grown in California, Florida and Cuba, and it is the intention of Cuban growers to use it locally and if necessary to ship it commercially as food to the Argentine and South American markets. Disinterested parties in Cuba say the stock will not eat the cactus as food, also that under certain conditions it will revert to the native spiney form, but it seems good logic to suppose that the Spineless is a distinct species which can be propagated indefinitely, especially from cuttings, and that it will no more revert to some other type than will corn or wheat. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED Bolelin de Minas, January, No. 2.—This publication is issued by the Department of Agriculture. This paper has a very full ac- count of the geological survey which was made in Cuba in 1901 by representatives of the Geological Survey of the United States, and it gives a great deal of information in re- gard to the geological situation of Cuba. A large portion of this issue of the magazine is devoted to information in reg
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