. The Cuba review and bulletin. h felt and a piston of rubber, while asingle operation twists the paper so as tocompletely envelop the orange. There is inall this a notable saving of paper overwrapping the fruit by hand about 20 percent. Moreover, this avoids the buying ofpaper of different sizes, as it is possible toadjust the machine for oranges of all sizes. The machine operates with such delicacythat even eggs can be handled without theslightest injury. The inachine wraps 72o^anges a minute, or 40,000 in ten hours. EXPORTATION OF CUBAN PINEAPPLES. The exportations of Cuban pineapplesfrom J
. The Cuba review and bulletin. h felt and a piston of rubber, while asingle operation twists the paper so as tocompletely envelop the orange. There is inall this a notable saving of paper overwrapping the fruit by hand about 20 percent. Moreover, this avoids the buying ofpaper of different sizes, as it is possible toadjust the machine for oranges of all sizes. The machine operates with such delicacythat even eggs can be handled without theslightest injury. The inachine wraps 72o^anges a minute, or 40,000 in ten hours. EXPORTATION OF CUBAN PINEAPPLES. The exportations of Cuban pineapplesfrom January i to November 2, inclusive,were as follows: 1906 1907- 920,542 crates. 650,776 crates. The abnormal drought all through the pineapple season of 1906-07 had the effect of materially decreasing the crop, as the figures show. Nevertheless the exports for the fourweeks ending- November 2 show an in-crease over the same period of 1906. Theexportations were: 1906 1907 5,170 crates. 6,295 crates. TIIF. CUBA RFAIEW And CASTILLOA ELASTKA. about throe years old. One of the rubbers for Cuba, and RUBBER IN CUBA. CUBAS position in the worlds rubberproducing territory while on the edgeis yet distinctly within the rubber to this tiine but comparitively little at-tention has been paid to the rubber plan-tation possibilities of Cuba, said recentlyMr. Henry C. Pearson, of the India Rub-ber World, and there are no definite recordsof rubber planting attainable. The rainfall,he found, is heavy enough for rubber and • See the July, 19<J7, Issue of the CCBA REVIEW. the soil and climate of Cuba, especially inthe eastern part of the island, very suit-able for the cultivation of these trees, factswhich have been known for a half centuryor more. He found rubber bearing plantsin the province of Pinar del Rio, indigenousto the island and known to the native asgoma, gomero and palo babo. C. F. Baker, chief of the Botanical De-partment at the Cuban Agricultural
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