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. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW. 27 1907-08 Sugar Crop. The following are the official figures is- sued October 2 by the Cpban Depart- ment of Agriculture, covering the 1907- 08 sugar crop and a comparison with the figures for 1906-07: 1906-7. 1907-8. Number of mills working 184 168 Arrobas of cane ground. 1,,406 815,917,247 Bags of sugar produced. 9,947,130 6,757,047 Equivalent in arrobas .. 128,215,274 87,037,840 Reduced to tons 1,452,049 985,711 Duty on Sugar Bags. By Decree No. 889, of September 9, 1908, the following clause is added to paragraph 127 of the existing customs tarif
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW. 27 1907-08 Sugar Crop. The following are the official figures is- sued October 2 by the Cpban Depart- ment of Agriculture, covering the 1907- 08 sugar crop and a comparison with the figures for 1906-07: 1906-7. 1907-8. Number of mills working 184 168 Arrobas of cane ground. 1,,406 815,917,247 Bags of sugar produced. 9,947,130 6,757,047 Equivalent in arrobas .. 128,215,274 87,037,840 Reduced to tons 1,452,049 985,711 Duty on Sugar Bags. By Decree No. 889, of September 9, 1908, the following clause is added to paragraph 127 of the existing customs tariff: ";—Bags for packing sugar made of cotton tissues, plain and without fig- ures or twilled, whatever may be the number of threads thereof and the weight per 100 square meters of the com- ponent tissue, it being necessary that such bags be marked with the name of the sugar mill for which they are in- tended and place where the same is lo- cated N. W. Kilo, $ Note.—The bags above referred to are hereby exempted from the surtax for making up and also from the surcharge provided for in decree Xo. 44, of Feb- ruary 1, 1904. Imports from the United States, classed under paragraph No. 127, are en- titled to a reduction of 30 per cent, of the duty, and the rate of duty on sugar bags from the United States will there- fore be cents per kilo.—-U. S. Trade Report. Treatment for Hog Cholera. First.—Clean and disinfect the cor<-als and burn the bodies of all hogs dying. Second.—Give the animals, once a 'lay, sweet milk or beaten eggs, one table- spoonful to two hundred pounds of the following mixture, the ingredients of which should be reduced to a fine pow- der and perfectly blended: Charcoal, sul- phur, sulphide of ammonia, sulphate of soda, one pound each; chloride of soda, bicarbonate of soda, hyposulphate of soda, two pounds each. The complete incineration of the car- casses of the animals dying of this ter- rible disease is indispensable to the avoid
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