. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 31 experience of years in cultivation, this cotton may be improved by grafting, as well as in selection of seed. "As near as I have been able to esti- mate," said Mr. Wheeler, "from my ex- perience, the cost of this cotton is about $ a hundred pounds of seed cotton, or 3% cents a pound for lint, at the planta- tion, and could be placed upon docks at seaboard at a cost of 6 to 8 cents a pound, less the value of the ; In spite of the fertility of the soil, says Mr. Wheeler, the abundance of insect life has been one of the great obst
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 31 experience of years in cultivation, this cotton may be improved by grafting, as well as in selection of seed. "As near as I have been able to esti- mate," said Mr. Wheeler, "from my ex- perience, the cost of this cotton is about $ a hundred pounds of seed cotton, or 3% cents a pound for lint, at the planta- tion, and could be placed upon docks at seaboard at a cost of 6 to 8 cents a pound, less the value of the ; In spite of the fertility of the soil, says Mr. Wheeler, the abundance of insect life has been one of the great obstacles to cultivation in Cuba, but none of these ap- pear to attack the wild cotton. Attempts to cultivate Egyptian cotton and Sea Island cotton in Cuba have not been successful, on account of the attacks of ants and other insects, and the same may be applied to IMr. Wheeler's own ex- perience with Carvonica cotton from Aus- tralian seed, which he had planted in Con- necticut.—Boston Advertiser. ILLITERACY IN CUBA Charles Stelzle in the Mason City (la.) Times-Herald says that Cuba's population of ten 3'ears of age and over amounts to 1,481,573 persons. He finds the total for- eign whites number 196,881 persons and the percentage of illiteracy in that class The total colored race foot up 453,- 714 and the illiterac}^ 55. The total nation, white, 830,978; percentage of illiteracy According to the census of 1907, the conditions with regard to illiteracy in Cuba were as indicated in the figures given. Out of a total population of 2,048,980, 21,420 were carpenters, one out of every seven being illiterate. Of cigar factory operatives there were 24,161, the proportion of illiteracy being slightly higher. But these constituted the better type of workers. Of farmers, planters and farm laborers there were 364,821 males and 3,110 females. Of the males 235,027, or nearly two-thirds, were illiterate. The illiteracy among the female was in about the same proportion. About one-ha
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