. The Cuba review. 28 THE CUBA R E \' I E W. Cuban tohncco vepa or iilaiiuiiiuii near San in Pinar del Rio I'roviiice. View sliows owner's house in a mango grove and two curing sheds. The growing tobacco in the fo'eground is the second growth, or sucker crop left for seed. It is a typical vega of the middle grade, yielding its owner a most comfortable living, enabling him to purchase practcally all food com- modities. It seems to be the rule in the N'uclta Abajo, say observers, that where tobacco is raised as a specially nothing else is raised to amount to anything. Vega 6 plantacion de
. The Cuba review. 28 THE CUBA R E \' I E W. Cuban tohncco vepa or iilaiiuiiiuii near San in Pinar del Rio I'roviiice. View sliows owner's house in a mango grove and two curing sheds. The growing tobacco in the fo'eground is the second growth, or sucker crop left for seed. It is a typical vega of the middle grade, yielding its owner a most comfortable living, enabling him to purchase practcally all food com- modities. It seems to be the rule in the N'uclta Abajo, say observers, that where tobacco is raised as a specially nothing else is raised to amount to anything. Vega 6 plantacion de tabaco en Cuba, cerca de San Luis, en la Provincia de Pinar del Rio. El grabado muestra una vista de la casa del hacendado, en una alameda de mangos, y dos cobertizos para secar el tabaco. Las plantas del tabaco del frentc son la segunda plantacion 6 retonos para semillas. Esta es una vega tipica de mediana clase, (|ue proporciona a su ducno una vida comoda. facilitandole el poder comprar todo lo ncccsario para cl sustento. Hay la crecncia en Vuelta Aliajo de f|ue donde se planta tabaco como esi)ecialidad no pueda darse otra cosa (|ue sea de alguna utilidad. The Tobacco Commission's Report. The tol)acco commission appointed by President Gomez some months ago to investigate the tobacco interests of Cuba, including the cause of lower prices, the lessening of the amount of tobacco grown and the acknowledged decline in quality of the leaf in some parts, has made its report. The commission was composed of the folowing members: the presidents of the Economic Society of Friends of the Century, the Chamber of Commerce, the Agrarian League and Sres. Leslie Pantin, Hoening & Co., Theodore L. Gar- l)a(le, and General Alberto Xodarse. The report recommends among other remedies the establishment of an ex- tensive irrigation system in the Velta Abajo. The decrease in the exportation of manufactured tobacco to European countries is discussed, especially the de- crease in the exportations
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