. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 28 THE CUBA REVIEW AGRICULTURAL MATTERS. A Celebrated and Valuable Animal—The Aguacate, One of the Most DeUcate Fruits—Papaws and Chickens,. AUrcides Julip's Pietertje's Paul, No. 29830. Courtesy of Collier's Weekly. A High Priced Animal. Collier's Weekly finds the animal pic- tured above celebrated and his record impressive. He has thirty-two daugh- ters of A. R. O. (Advanced Registry Of- ficial), which corresponds in the bovines to the two-minute class in race horses, and a son with fourteen daughters in this coveted division. He is the cousin of Colan
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 28 THE CUBA REVIEW AGRICULTURAL MATTERS. A Celebrated and Valuable Animal—The Aguacate, One of the Most DeUcate Fruits—Papaws and Chickens,. AUrcides Julip's Pietertje's Paul, No. 29830. Courtesy of Collier's Weekly. A High Priced Animal. Collier's Weekly finds the animal pic- tured above celebrated and his record impressive. He has thirty-two daugh- ters of A. R. O. (Advanced Registry Of- ficial), which corresponds in the bovines to the two-minute class in race horses, and a son with fourteen daughters in this coveted division. He is the cousin of Colantha and is held at $20,000. He is great not in himself alone, but in those who are to uphold his name and glory after him—$10,000 has been offered for one of his sons. Paul himself weighs a ton and a quarter. The Aquacate Easily Damaged. The great susceptibility of aquacates to damage by bruising is a great ob- stacle in the way of building up an export trade. It is undoubtedly one of the most delicate of West Indian fruits and it is necessary to use the greatest care in gathering and handling it. The slightest bruise is sufficient to cause the pear to rot in a very short time; indeed, it is often much bruised by its own seed if carelessly shaken. Nevertheless it is possible to ship avocados successfully for very consid- erable distances, if due care is exercised in gathering, packing, etc. West Indian pears have been exported in small quan- tity to New York and to England, and experimental shipments from the Ha- waiian Islands to the Pacific Coast of the United States gave satisfactory re- sults. Cases in which avocados are packed for transport should be small in size and contain but few fruits. The crate found most satisfactory in _ the Hawaiian experiments (with medium- sized fruits) was of the following dimen- sions, inside measurement: 13x14x3^ inches. This crate contained about one dozen fruits, necessarily in a single layer, the fruits being merely wrapped in a sin
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