Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-27
cusa's fcoo SUPPLY.
Everything tu Vegetables and Jelly Imported
Into ihe Island.

Now interest in the food imports OF
Cuba follows the announcement that
Colombia mas placed an export duty on
cattle. The nrctense from the Colom-
bian capital is that the interests of
that country are injured by the foreign
demand Tor its bulls and cows. The
truth is that the Colombian govern
n,ent merely sees in this demand an
available source of revenue.
Manv of the cattle exported from
Colombia come to Cuba. So do cattle
exported from Brazil, from Mexico and
f. ON our own state OF Texas. All this
coils attention to an abnormal condi-
ton in Cuba that one would assume
could not last long beyond its revela-
ton. hut that has continued, neverthe-
less. for a long time.
When a family gathers around the
table in this land of phenomenal fer
tility every person, father and mother
and children. pays fancy, an artificial
price for every ounce of food. And this
is what should be land of plenty
where agricultural wealth constitutes
it's chief claim to its traditional title
OF the Pearl of the Antilles" The
pearl is clouded at present, but it's
luster can be made clear.
1t is a singular fact about Cuba that
it possesses not an art of its own. 1t is
literally impossible, for example, to buy
Il thing that is characteristic of the
COUNTRY. There is even no pottery, the
most primitive Of arts. Work in clay
has not progressed beyond the making
of sun baked tiles. Even thes porous
bottles. in daily use for cooling water
- ,i-iyal- jrr,nnrtpI Only W
grows out of the ground is native.
This condition. in the midst of such
marvellous natural resources. only
makes more homogeneous the importa-
ton az almost everything. except
Vegetables and guava jelly, that is eat
On at the table. cuba consumes i'm
mense Quantities of celery from New
York and Wisconsin. and. more
strange still. eats bushels Of fruit
brought cieav from California. And
this is land oc tropical fruits, hut so
pcrishable that even the quickest
transportation make many Of them I'M
marketable in New York.
As 20 meat. it is all the more strange
that the Cubans hteistaak should COM
from across the sea. when l. is rcmem
hercd that only 4 few Years go the cattle
Industry vas the third in inheritance IN
the island. ranking next to sugar and TO-
bacco. The destruction Of the cattle i
less surprising than IS the continued par
alISis of the Grazing business. There ar
thousand hills in this island adnir3 bly,
adapted - the breeding Of cattle: vet pc0-
PIE in tle cities nuv beef brought from
all parts Of the American continent. ana
in tn" cities they drink condensed milk
diluted with wafer, and cat cheese maut
uTon for, len dairv farms.
The cattle that formerly waved fat uD-
on thr a7lSsCs If the Cuban h.ils were in
cvitahly he first prey of the rebellion
against Su&iu. Tn Cuban TeVolutIlnists
@ni The -tt@d soldiers of the Spanish
Z" Gls- Of CCclUJtipn both fed upon them
IN inc three years Uf The last rcrOlu. iOr
the herds Urat ti,llY Disappeared. Tho
ola maxim that an army fights upon it,
stomach never received q more vivid IL
iUStratjoa Sugar growing and grinding
was the second 10 suffer from The TavageS
Of war. because malice or wantonnes~
could stop machinery worth thousands az
dollars merely by hurting 4 missile amid
its nice adjustments, or could G"str0t
hundreds Of acres Of t!percI cane with a
fir.hIIud. But The SUGAR industry, tho
second 10 suffer. hes been tie mrs; 10 r.
cover Tho cattle The first t. feed tht
StrDCGth II 3nSry men, are tie last a
recnEp he onerE. 81 2 population return
lliS from war u We X
This CmoarraSs is in large measure
Que 10 GEst tiled political conditions. Thu
lesson once earned that living food IS tbs
first to perish in case of civil dis uraanc-
mon Of money VIII wait assurance Of
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yoiIcI lVi. ,nr statement mai the island /.
tree from amy other utrnicious ills that
at1itCt I've stock iii he United States and
in Europe.
Hog cholers is widely disseminated in
C'!,a This IS UnfG-tunatc as the con
sl3nl;t.Cn OF uOrE i'll the island is very
lar,-t OF the hogs SLAUGHTERED in Ha-
vuna s. Lcr cent are brought from thC
United States. and Of those killed III otn-
Ell Cuban cites. 50 Der cent come FROM
the sane source Of sIpplY Consequently
t0 ,,s.rbibit The inIDcrfation of these ami
WAL. Ia mi rlrnhinit ma CONSERVATION az
i've American pork thought practicable
The Importance OF this subject to the