Identifier: cubareviewbullet05muns (find matches)
Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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a will hold 50,000 plants. These after three years, the time when theyattain their most perfect development, yield on an average three leaves monthly, andas it is calculated that each leaf contains one and a half ounces of fibre 1,000.000leaves gathered from a caballeria during one year will yield 420 bales of 4 quintals(400 pounds each). Surrounding the plantation referred to and where the leaves are gathered,cleaned, and the bales prepared there are many smaller plantations where theleaves are sold on the plant at the rate of 50 cents silver per thousand, the purchaserpaying for cutting, gathering, and cartage. The leaves, collected in bunches of teneach, are paid for at the rate of $1 currency per thousand. The life of a plant iscalculated at 15 j^ears, but as each plant disappears it leaves an offshoot or youngplant which at the end of three years will again commence to give the same yield foranother fifteen years—U. S. Gov. Report, January 3, 1907. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin.
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New construction work: The main street of Camaguey in process of reconstruction, and the finishedwork. Asphalting the street made a most needed and welcome improvement. The telephone poles justerected look strange in the picturesque streets of one of the oldest cities in the Island.

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