Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . the henequin, lanseveria, and lengua de vaca. Thefirst produces from twenty-five to thirty leaves a year fortwelve years, each leaf from five to nine feet long, weighingfrom four to seven pounds. So far as Spanish statistics may be correct, there were inCuba in 1891 a total of 2,485,768 cattle of all kinds; but atthe close of the war in August, 1898, it was estimated byAmerican stockmen, who were* apprised
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . the henequin, lanseveria, and lengua de vaca. Thefirst produces from twenty-five to thirty leaves a year fortwelve years, each leaf from five to nine feet long, weighingfrom four to seven pounds. So far as Spanish statistics may be correct, there were inCuba in 1891 a total of 2,485,768 cattle of all kinds; but atthe close of the war in August, 1898, it was estimated byAmerican stockmen, who were* apprised of the condition ofaffairs throughout the Island, that not over 75,000 headwere left. For a number of years past, owing to excessiveimport duties and other exactions, shipments of cattle toCuba have been kept far below the demand, not only forworking, but for slaughtering purposes; and as the Cubansraised few cattle, though every natural condition of climate,forage, and water was favourable to grazing, there was nevera surplus to meet any emergency. Therefore the resultwas that, when the war came the ports were blockaded andno new supplies could be brought in, the people, as well as. Agriculture and Stock 333 the soldiers, had to be fed, and the cattle were slaughteredindiscriminately. It should be stated here that just priorto the war, cattle were admitted free, and the imports,chiefly from South American countries, reached from 70,-000 to 80,000 head per month. These were nearly all beefcattle. From August, 1897, to May, 1898, 83,868 head ofcattle were received at Havana, of which 37,129 came fromthe United States. These cattle came chiefly from Texas,Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana, for southerncattle are much better suited to the Cuban climate and con-ditions than northern or western cattle. The fact that cattleare bought by weight in the United States and sold by thehead in Cuba has been against the American stockmen. From a report of a dealer in Havana, under da
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