. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 25. A Cuban town during the rainy season, which begins generally in May and continues until Uctober. uncommon to see a Cuban eat a dozen oranges at a sitting. The buyers come to the groves and take the oranges in rice and sugar sacks to the station where they are dumped into the cars and are shipped this way in bulk to the larger cities. Some of the oranges are bought in ox carts in bulk piled four feet high and are drawn this way sometimes for 10 or 20 miles over the rough country roads. Sometimes they are delivered to sail boats and are taken to some port a
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 25. A Cuban town during the rainy season, which begins generally in May and continues until Uctober. uncommon to see a Cuban eat a dozen oranges at a sitting. The buyers come to the groves and take the oranges in rice and sugar sacks to the station where they are dumped into the cars and are shipped this way in bulk to the larger cities. Some of the oranges are bought in ox carts in bulk piled four feet high and are drawn this way sometimes for 10 or 20 miles over the rough country roads. Sometimes they are delivered to sail boats and are taken to some port along the coast. The growers like this way, for they get the cash for their fruit the day it is picked and they are get- ting a dollar a hundred for navels, no culls, no washing, no packing, no expense of pa- per, boxes, freight, duty, cartage, lighterage, dockage, shrinkage and commission. The Cuban people like navels and tangerines and are quite willing to part wtih their hard-earned dollars to get them.—Canet CCuba) correspondence of the Neiv York Packer. FUTURE OF CUBA S FRUITS The reduction of the duty on grapefruit from 64c. to 28c. per box is giving a stim- ulus to the business of planting and giving better care to the many groves which thus far have been in a semi-abandoned state. Oranges are improving in quality from year -±0 vear as the trees near mature bearing age. There will be no need to ship oranges from Cuba to the United States for some years to come. Oranges are selling on the trees from 75c. to $ per hundred, ac- cording to the size and varieties. In order to control the prices on oranges in Cuba for the benefit of the growers the majority of the crop should be in control of a combination of growers for better distribution in order that there should not be an over-supply of fruit on the market at any one time. As the case now stands, there are times when three or four carloads of oranges arrive at the same time on the Havana market; besides these, there
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