The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-27

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Of Manzanillo. yet IL cost me sl5 "a dol
| Tor more than for seventy-five miles less,
! No wonder they look on 800 per cent div
| idends as normal
CHANCE FOR FARMERS PROFITS.
Your intending Cuban farmer with
! dreams OF wealth must, IN fine, count
with an these things. II. however. he IL
able To satisfy himself as 10 title, cost.
suitability and transportation. and If ne
knows something about the business he
has "A good chance fo making farmers
profits higher. probably, than In almost
any part Of the United States. but farm.
crs' prohts-not capitalists profits or
gold-mine profits, but good living and
some thing over.
There is little I'm the Cuban climate 10
deter the white man OF the north. out
side the towns yellow fever is ractically
unknown. There are calenturas, climatic
fevers, not nearly SO dangerous as the
old chills and fever on which our middle
states grew fat in population
They are mostly the result of exposure
I'm the rainy season. generally disappear
in two or three days. and where they take
the intermittent character, seldom endure
beyond the first year Of residence
An therefore. which one may have
found I'm the foregoing that il discourag-
ing Ca immigration must be read of To
swindlers and confidence men who are
promoting deusive schemes for grabbing
hard-earned American dollars-the saved
dollars OF the ambitious man. Capitalists
I'm America can take care OF themselves
Nothing, ] hold could be better for the
future OF Cuba than an American immi-
grafton on a large scale II conducted
honestly and developed sagely.
Despite the enormous Yields. the surface
Of Cuba has been not more than scratch
ed. All fruits, even bananas. cut a small
figure In the agriculture of the island
The land speculator, with his eye
close together and his habitual leer ONLY
gabbles OF oranges and pineapples, bui
the things have yet 20 be developed BE-
fore they can count. They are not IN,
first things, hy amy means. for the intend
ing settler 60 consider.
The first and greatest agricultural in
dustry i'm the island IL that of the sugar
cane. No doubt the tendency is toward
large areas OF ownership OF cane fields,
and more and more powerful sugar mills.
but there is still great opening for cul-
ture Of the sugar cane on a smaller scale.
one good cane land within reach OF "A
central sugar mill, [ am assured on the
authority OF a veteran planter. that
cane patch of ten cavallerlas or 3S3 acres
viii Weld a profit o. 5000 q year outside
OF living expenses. I'm some lands IL will
Yield more In others less.
The next great industry is tobacco
which Is particularly adapted 20 farms
restriced In size. II requires great care
and constant attention, but II is a profit
able crop.
Although the very best tobacco lands
i'm Pinar del Rio are taken up aud closely
owned. there is room for a great eNpan-
sion OF tobacco industv oil over island
II need not al be OF the finest leaf OF the
Vuelta Abafo tobacco 10 he profitable or
Fs.I -" a".NrH1 lat..
to get. the hest results but tho farmers
OF Connecticut Virginia North Carolina
and SO on would be quite equal % II.
and manv things In its culture would be
improved n they took hold
The tobacco area OF cuba Is at present
only one-ffth OF the sugar area. but it
is 10 he expected that the proportion will
not be so low ten years hence.
TOBACCO A PROFITABLE CROP.
A great industry open to our farmers
IL cattle Cuba, once the mother Of 1ocks
and herds, was picked To the bone during
the late war. and is very slowly regain
ing its bovine population.
Cattle are coming I'm by the shipload
from Venezuela and other South Ameri-
can and Central American countries, as
we'll as from Texas and other southern
states, but the country II a great con-
sumner OF fresh beef, and likes TO get IL on
the hoof.
Grazing lands arc plentiful, and with
good water and stout fence the cattle
require little care. There IL continual
demand for draught oxen. IL requires
some capital for "A start. hut after that
vigorous organization will carry most en-
terprises through. The average cattle
farm uses about $50 acres.
Surely our farmers who have never seen
an orange tree are equal 10 the planting
and harvesting OF Indian corn. Al pres
ent not more than 1o.eoo acres IN the
whole island are under this great grain.
for which the market Is wide and close
at hand. It Yields two crops wear. and
what more could n farmer ark9
The chance for sweet potatoes r. equally
good There are nearly N1 600 acres OF
them under cultivation-that II To saw.
every farmer. great or small has his
boniata match.
For Irish potatoes, which must he
planted every year with seed from the
north. the market II fne, particularly II
near enough 10 tldowater and steamship
routes They beat the Bermuda potatoes
There are about 3oQ9 acres nov planted
In Cuba mostly IN The Havana province
ONIONS BRING GOOD PRICES
what will oar farmers say to oniors'
Thcv arc rais-d without trouble hut NTH
The rsceessrf looking ffcr sell - good
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