The Atlanta News. (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1910 Page: 6 of 8
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URING the first week in February,
1910, the Cuban National Horticultu-
ral society, an organization the mem-
bership of which is almost exclusive-
ly American and Canadian, held its
fourth annual meeting in Havana. In
connection, a horticultural show was
open; among the exhibits were cit-
rus fruits from every section of the
island. The fruits were large, juicy,
clean, thin-skinned, heavy, beautifully
colored and delicious in flavor. Flor-
ida had sent across grape fruit and
oranges from famous orchards of the
peninsular state, to facilitate invidious compari-
son, and the comparison, when made, showed that
Cuba can produce citrus fruit of first-class qual-
ity, and, moreover, that she is doing so.
Citrus-fruit culture is the principal interest
of American and Canadian settlers throughout
Cuba. Cubans and Spaniards are growers of no
citrus fruits save pineapples—the grape fruit and
orange groves belong to the English-speaking
colonists. Orange and grape fruit culture is tl}e
business which has been boomed mercilessly by
land companies advertising largely and some-
times unscrupulously all through the United
States and in Canada during the past ten years.
Their customers, arriving in Cuba, have insisted
upon growing nothing but grape fruit and or-
anges. even in regions where other crops would
assuredly have proven more immediately profit-
able If not the better investment in the long run.
For instance, there are Americans and Cana-
dians growing citrus
fruits in the heart of
Vuelta Aba jo and in
other parts of Pinar
del Rio province on
lands that might be
made\ to produce tobac-
co of the qualities which
have made western
Cuba famous the world
around for this one
crop, were the owners
willing to co-operate
with Cubans on the par-
tidario system, accord-
ing to which the new-
comer furnishes the re-
quisite capital and the
native furnishes the
skill no less necessary
to success In the deli-
cate undertaking. It is-
a notable fact that few
Americans or Canadians
who themselves do the
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There are "tricks In the trade" of which Cubans
are masters, especially those persons whose fam-
ilies have for generations out of mind engaged in
tobacco culture entirely. They seem to be pos-
sessed of an intuition which enables them to
handle the seedling, the plant and the leaf, when
germinating, when maturing, and especially when
curing, in a manner to insure a better outcome
than any foreigner is likely to compass. To grow
the very best tobacco requires capital. The ven-
ture is a gamble, the result of which, however,
Is known In a single season. If the planter wins,
he probably rakes in "big money." If he loses,
at least it takes him only months, not years, to
find it out
In the Isle of Pines, which was formerly a
cattle and hog country, producing especially val-
uable draft oxen for sale in Cuba proper, Ameri-
can citrus-fruit growers consume large quantities
of canned condensed milk, at high prices, as well
as large amounts of canned meats and vegetables,
despite the fact that some good pasturage exists,
while still more could doubtless be planted, and
the further fact that fine vegetables in remark-
ably large variety can be grown along the river
banks, or, really, almost anywhere else where
irrigation is possible. They also import hay and
feed at ridiculous cost. All this into a region
where corn at least can be grown and large herds
used to "find*" themselves.
In central, but most particularly in eastern
Cuba, Americans and Canadians are developing
groves in lands admirably adapted to sugar cane,
which Is a quick, certain and profitable crop, sold
either in the field, or cut and delivered wherever
there is a mill near enough to buy up the cane.
They are growing their trees on sites natives
would assuredly prefer for coffee and cacao, or.
more wisely, for the numerous indigenous crop\
(names, boniatos, etc.) for which there is con-
stant and remunerative demand.
American and Canadian settlers in Cuba, in-
cluding the Isle of'Pines, are citrus-fruit mad. In
Pinar del RIo, In the Isle of Pines and in central
and eastern Cuba there is, nevertheless, In their
madness so much method, plus grit and utter in-
ability to realize the odds they are "up against,"
that it ser.tns to be very probable they will suc-
ceed regardless. Money, time and hardship are
to them no object at all.
Pinar del Rio i3 a province possessed of most
fertile lands in certain districts. There are
among the foothills and in the "Organos" them-
selves rich valleys; unfortunately, some of the
choicest are as yet almost inaccessible. There is
good land always along the streams, and arable
areas are to be found, here and there, every-
where. Also here and there and everywhere
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there are worn-out fields, sun
baked through years, which
wear, however, to the inexperi-
enced eye, the aspect of virgin,
though lightly wooded or sa-
vannah lands; there are also
other sections—^desolate palm
barrens—where no man save
the sort who purchase real es-
tate "sight unseen" would
think of attempting to grow
anything. There are, too, south
of the mountain range, on the
plain which drops gradually
from its skirts to the Caribbean
^ea, certain sandy, gravelly
reaches, poor in plant food. It
is here, however, with proper fertilization and
care, that growers are developing orange and
grape-fruit groves.
These lands will produce the trees, if food
to support them is supplied in the shape of fer-
tilizer, and the trees will bear citrus fruit of the
very best quality—bright colored, weighty, full
of juice, inclosed In smooth, thin rind, No fair-
minded person can longer doubt that they will
do so after seeing fruit of the quality which
growers located at Taco Taco exhibited at the
latest horticultural show in Havana. These gen-
tlemen had, however, the money to keep their
trees properly nourished. Many others who have
failed to succeed as they are suceeding owe that
failure to the fact that they did not have the
money to do as much for their groves.
Some land companies doing business in west-
ern Cuba deny overtly or by implication that fer-
tilization is necessary, but no prospective owner
of a citrus-fruit grove in western Cuba can afford
not to include in his estimate o*f expenses the
cost of fertilizing early and often in amounts
properly augmented as years pass. Fertilizers in
general use in the groves of the region mentioned
co3t, on a fair average, about $45 a ton.
This is the situation In the Isle of Pines, as
well as in the western and central mainland of
Cuba. "The soils are all poor In plant food com-
pared with the average soils in the United States,
and the gravel ridges are especially so," states
Mr. H. C. Henricksen, secretary of the Cuban
National Horticultural society, referring particu-
larly to the Isle of Pines, "but I have never seen
the effect of good fertilizers so sharply outlined
as in these very soils, and from experience in
Florida and Porto Rico I would predict an abun-
dant crop of fruit of superior quality wherever
the groves are properly treated."
The vital question in these regions is, then,
whether the owner is able to afford proper treat-
ment. He will, save in exceptional cares, where
the soil is too "American" for any use whatso-
ever, get his crop provided he has the money to
supply enough fertilizer.
p"or there are richer lands in Cuba than those
on which Americans and Canadians are develop-
ing their groves in western Cuba and the Isle of
Pines. \
Along the Cauto river, to mention but one
locality, there are exceedingly deep, fertile, vir-
gin soils which need no fertilizer to produce cit-
rus fruit groves. Such lands must, at the very
commencement, be cleared, at some expense, of
the thick woods that cover them, and groves,
once planted, must at all costs be kept fairly free
of weeds. Secondary crops—corn, for instance-
may be grown between rows without detriment
to the trees; in fact, it would seem wiser to do
so than otherwise, for, exactly the opposite oi
the case In the west, these far eastern lands need
to be reduced.
They are almost too rich, and the fruit of
trees they produce, particularly young trees, is
apt to be coarse-skinned, too big, and pithy.
These defects, nevertheless, timfe remedies, for
as groves age they lessen the supply of plant
food. Eventually it will become necessary to fer-
tilize the trees, and then growers, by selecting
their fertilizer, can control the quality of their
fruit.
They, have, meanwhile, acquired their grove
without the expense for fertilizer the grower in
the west has been put to in order to produce his.
He, on the other hand, has been to less expense
than the man In the east in the matter of clear-
ing, and he has not had to sit up nights weeding
to keep his grove from disappearing under a
tangle of tropical vegetation.
The obvious conclusion, is therefore, that six
is one-half dozen. Groves In both eastern and
western Cuba will produce trees and good fruit,
but neither will do so for any owner not willing
to pay the price under one head or another in
cash and also in hard work.
It is conservatively estimated that no man
should undertake even a five-acre grove anywhere
in Cuba unless he has at least $5,000 where he
can lay his hands on it. If he is a lively, capable
man he will probably not need that amount of
money, but no matter what his ability he should
be able to command at least that sum before em-
barking in the citrus fruit business here. He may
need it all, and more.
While no complete statistics are available, it
Is the writer's impression that in western Cuba,
including the Isle of Pines, the acreage of or-
anges is more than that of grape fruit, while in
the east it would seem that the grape-fruit acre-
age Is the larger. The older groves seem, usu-
ally, to be orange groves; the younger the grove
the larger the proportion of grape fruit in it.
Problems of transportation to market demand
careful study from all growers, prospective or
established. Groves situated at a distance from
railway lines are handicapped at the start, for,
although there are many good roads in Pinar del
Rio province, and all over the Isle of Pines, every
foot of haul counts, and where the roads are not
excellent, It counts heaVily, most especially in
wet weather.
Americans and Canadians have plunged head-
foremost into citrus-fruit culture in Cuba. They
are building up against odds, by their indomitable
courage and optimism, an industry into .which
preceding owners of the lands they hold did not
venture. The Spaniards and Cubans did not so
venture may have been because they were blind
to the possibilities, lacked specific knowledge,
or the energy required; or possibly they were
outmatched by adverse conditions in past dec-
ades. Then again, it may be they were deterred
not by these things at all, but by a true under-
standing of basic conditions here; by a realiza-
tion of difficulties In the way of competing, not to
say controlling, in the markets where the citrus
fruit of Cuba must be sold; and, especially, by a
keen appreciation of more profit to be made more
quickly and Inexpensively elsewhere. In fine,
they may have been governed by caution, which
does not notably distinguish the Anglo-Saxon
when engaged in opening up fields to him new.
New to him, be it noted, but in Cuba's case
not in themselves either new or untried. This
Island Is not a virgin wilderness In toto. It has
been under the domination of white pien for 400
years. Not all these white men were idle and
incompetent. They appreciated the country and
in developing its resources—not to the fullest ex
tent possible nowadays, to be sure, but as far
as was possible to them in their times—they
made fortunes.
The Spaniards devoted all the energies they
had for agriculture in Cuba to sugar cane and to-
bacco In the eastern and central provinces, and
especially to tobacco in the west. For four cen
turies they held fast to these two products, thus
demonstrating that they were possessed of no
more versatility than the American and the Ca
nadian who, in Cuba, insist upon discovering no
future save in citrus fruit.
From tobacco and from cane the Spaniard, and
the Cuban with him, has wrested the "wealth oi
the Indies." "Rich as a Cuban planter"—plantei
of cane and tobacco, not of oranges and grape
fruit—is a significant English phrase. To attain
to the wealth and the ease it implies has been
the ambition of the adventurous and the avari
cious from 1492 to the present time.
CONCOCTIONS TO TEMPT JADED
SUMMER APPETITE"
Welcome Changes From the Cus-
ternary Anchovy Paste or Pate
de Foie Gras—Are Worth
T rying.
Here are a few concoctions that
bear trying, as they are a change from
customary anchovy paste or pate de
foie gras:
Grate and mix to a paste two ounces
of dry American cheese, a dessert
spoonful of essence of anchovy, a ta-
blespoonful of butter, the yolk^ of two
eggs, pinches of salt and paprika;
make diamonds of toast, butter on
both sides while hot, spread thickly
with the cheese paste and bake in a
hot oven for a few minutes. Servfe
very hot.
More unusual are rounds of but-
tered toast, heaped with a mixture of
pickled shrimps seasoned with the
juice of an orange, a tablespoonful oi
butter, a little nutmeg, salt and cay-
enne pepper. Make the mixture very
hot. The toast is put in a hot oven
for a minute and served with a gar-
nish of fried parsley. •
Herring roe, seasoned with pepper
and salt, rolled in a slice of bacon
each and fried for 15 minutes, then
served on rounds of hot crouton, is
new and delicious.
Shad roe can be used in the same
way by cutting the roe into sections
suited to the toast. Garnish with
lemon.
The small red and yellow tomatoes
are made into an artistic appetizer.
Cut bread into rounds two inches in
diameter and an eighth of an inch
thick, and fry in butter until a delicate
brown. Spread when cold with a paste
made by mixing butter and Parmesan
cheese. Put a tomato on top of each
round, sprinkle with grated Parmesan
and make a border of timely minced
cress. >
Sardine eggs can be used as an ap-
petizer or as a salad. Cut hard boiled
eggs lengthwise, remove yolks and fill
with skinned and boned sardines—or
anchovies—chopped very fine and sea
soned with salt and pepper and a lit-
tle vinegar. Sprinkle the top with
yolk of eggs run through a vegetable
press and season.—Boston Herald.
Cherry Omelet.
Drain the liquor from a can of cher-
ries and chop the fruit coarsely, re-
serve a dozen or fifteen of the cher-
ries whole; add three tablespoonfuls
of the cherry juice; bring it to a boil-
ing point and keep hot in a double
boiler while preparing the omelet.
Beat the yolks of five eggs light, add
two heaping tablespoonfuls of white
sugar, and whip in the whites, which
should be very stiff; melt a spoonful
of butter in a hot omelet pan and
pour in the omelet. Cook until set;
spread upon one-half of the omelet the
minced cherries. Sprinkle with white
sugar, fold the other half of the omejet
over the fruit; put on a heated plat-
ter, and place the whole cherries
around the edge of the dish. Serve at
once with the hot cherry sauce. Fresh
cherries in season can be substituted
for canned cherries.
Meat Jelly Sandwiches.
Cut the remnants of cold meat or
poultry into small pieces or chop.
Make a strong meat stock that will
jelly when cold or use beef extract
dissolved in hot water and dissolved
gelatine to thicken. Three le^el table-
spoonfuls will thicken a quart of
liquid. Pour the desired quantity over
the meat, stir well and leave In a
basin until beginning to form. Then,
with a final stir, pour into a cold mold
rinsed out with cold water. Of course
the stock is seasoned well when
made. When cold slice and use for
filling. The sandwiches must be kept
cold. Minced mushrooms may be
added if their flavor is liked.
Gooseberry Chutney.
When the fruit Is large and sour is
the best time to make this chutney.
Take the tops and tails from two
quarts of gooseberries, cut them in
halves, add one pound brown sugar,
one-half pound onions (chopped), one-
half pound garlic (bruised), one pound
stoned raisins or sultanas, one-half
mustard seed, three-fourths pound
salt, and two ounces cayenne pepper.
Simmer until tender In three pints of
best vinegar and add a little more if
the mixture gets too thick. Put In
dry bottles and cork down when cold.
To Clean Straw Hats.
Cut a lemon in half and rub the cut
surface over the soiled straw, squee-
zing the juice out while rubbing. The
straw will soon be as bright as when
new; then rub dry corn meal over the
straw with a sponge or rag to lemove
any particles of lemon. Or you can
strain lemon juice through a fine
fabric and dip an old toothbrush into
the juice and scour the straw Or you
can dissolve tartaric acid in water to
make what is practically lemon juice.
Fresh Salmon Sal&d.
Boil two salmon steaks in a kettle
of salted water with half a cupful of
vinegar added. When the salmon is
cooked through without being broken,
drain and set aside to cool. When
quite cool, lay on ice until time for
serving. Cover a platter with water-
cress. Place the cold salmon on the
dish, garnish with thin sluices of
lemon and serve with a mayonnaise
dressing.
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Clever Joke of King.
King Edward's great nature was Il-
lustrated the other night by a London
correspondent at the Press club in
New York.
"The king," said the correspondent,
"was visiting Rufford Abbey, and one
morning, in company with his host,
Lord Arthur Saville, he took a walk
over the preserves.
"Suddenly Lord Arthur, a big burly
man, rushed forward and seized a
shabby fellow with a dead pheasant
protruding from the breast of his coat.
" 'Sir,' said Lord Arthur to the king,
'this fellow is a bad egg. This is the
second time I've caught him poaching.*
"But the king's handsome face
beamed, and he laughed his gay and
tolerant laugh.
" 'Oh, let him go,' he said. H he
really were a bad egg, you know, he
wouldn't poach.'"
Mathematical Request.
Little Mary, seven years old, was
saying her prayers. "And God," she
petitioned at the close, "make seven
times six forty-eight."
"Why, Mary, why did you say that?"
asked her mother.
" "Cause that's the way I wrote it in
'zamination in school today, and T
want it to be right"—Lippincott's.
The Ready Theorist.
"You see," explained the scientist,
"house flies are dangerous because
they carry germs on their feet."
"Ah!" exclaimed the ready theorist;
"then the remedy is simple. All you
need to do is to make them wear over-
shoes and leave them on the porch
when they come in."
In the Night School.
Teacher (of night school)—What do
you understand by the terms "life
sentence?" Give an example of one.
Shaggy-Haired Pupil—I pronounced
you husband and wife.—Chicago Trib-
une.
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