. The Cuba review and bulletin. sugar leaves the mill it is coarse in grain and of a rich golden color. I,in my ignorance, had expected to see it come out white. Nevertheless this brown sugaris in use all over the island. The hotels and better class of residents use the carried away several small bags of different grades. Again were we conducted to the casa where refreshments were once more hospitablyurged upon us, and two of the seven sons presented each of us with an enormous bouquet THE CUBA REVIEW 39 culled from the choicest in their garden. One bright eyed little chap ran after
. The Cuba review and bulletin. sugar leaves the mill it is coarse in grain and of a rich golden color. I,in my ignorance, had expected to see it come out white. Nevertheless this brown sugaris in use all over the island. The hotels and better class of residents use the carried away several small bags of different grades. Again were we conducted to the casa where refreshments were once more hospitablyurged upon us, and two of the seven sons presented each of us with an enormous bouquet THE CUBA REVIEW 39 culled from the choicest in their garden. One bright eyed little chap ran after me urgingthe acceptance of a treasured doe skin. Our volante was laden with fruit, cocoanuts, palmleaves and sugar cane, some of which we brought back to the States for friends lessfortunate. The drive home through the hush of the golden twilight was something to beremembered forever. Every mile or so as we rode through the fields, we would comeupon a solitary laborer cooking his evening meal in the open, using simply a small. TWO HOMES OF SUGAR PLANTERS, SET IN GARDENS OF LUXURIANT CULTIVATION. earthen vessel balanced over a tinycharcoal fire. He would greet usgravely, and the sun set and the afterglow kindled the clouds into a thousand opalescent tints,a mysterious silence seemed to settle over everything as if the course of nature had beensuddenly arrested. The palms which had nodded so gayly in the afternoon breeze, stoodmotionless like giant sentinels; not a breath stirred the cane fields. Quietly the shadows,deepened; night closed in and the day was done. 40 I THE CUBA REVIEW. Cubas Agricultural Possibilities. By Prof. F. G. Earle. Late Director Cuba Agricultural Experiment Station. ^
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