. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW. Industries of Cuba—The Henequen Defibering Factory at Nuevitas. The company also has a large plantation at Itabo and another at Nuevitas, where it has a factory now in operation, and which has been in operation for some years. The Matanzas plant will give employ- ment all the year round to about a thou- sand laborers. The plant is easily and profitably grown and will flourish on the poorest of soils. The combined output will exceed the home demand, but it is believed a good export trade can be built up. Low Prices for Pineapples All stocks of pineapples at a
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW. Industries of Cuba—The Henequen Defibering Factory at Nuevitas. The company also has a large plantation at Itabo and another at Nuevitas, where it has a factory now in operation, and which has been in operation for some years. The Matanzas plant will give employ- ment all the year round to about a thou- sand laborers. The plant is easily and profitably grown and will flourish on the poorest of soils. The combined output will exceed the home demand, but it is believed a good export trade can be built up. Low Prices for Pineapples All stocks of pineapples at auction have shown a lack of color that has caused buy- ers to bid low figures, says the Fruitmaii's Guide of December j7th. There has been a good deal of the fruit in the small sizes that has sold out at below cost to shippers. Buyers seem to be afraid to handle the fruit in any quarter, and at some of the small sales we know of business done in 42s down to 50c. per crate for Cuban stock. If ship- pers could be induced to hold back this small immature fruit until the stock was fit to ship, there would be a better market here and some profit to them on the shipments. In a good many cases Cuban stock seems to be undesirable on even the medium sizes, and sales are noted here at $ to $2 per crate for the best in the 24s. A few lots have sold down as low as $ per crate. The 36s in Cuban stock in some cases sold down as low as 75c. per -crate, but as a rule up to $ was asked. There has been a fair sale on 30s in the range of $1 to $ per crate as to quality and condition. To Grow Cuban Tobacco Clark Bros, of Poquonock, Conn., well- known tobacco growers, are going to make a new venture in tobacco raising next year. They are convinced that the best pro- gram for the large grower to follow is to raise the Cuban variety under shade, this variety being now in great demand. Previous experiments of seven or eight years ago cost the growers and promoters nearly $1,250,000.
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