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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
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rity along these lines. It contains informationof value to every grower in citrus fruits in Cuba. It will be found with numerousillustrations on pages S and 9. Pages II and 12 give a resume of the political situation with an illustration ofGeneral Guerra. The roads and highways of Cuba are described on pages 13, 14 and 15. The data havebeen taken from the ofticial records submitted by the Department of Public Worksto Governor Magoon, and is therefore authentic. It represents an outlay ofover $3,000,000. Commercial Notes will be found on page 16. A visit to a Cuban cigar factory (illustrated) appears on page 17. The opening of the beautiful new building of the National Bank ot Cuba and descriptionof the American Camp at Alatanzas and the work of Colonel Sweet will befound on pages 18 and 19. Agricultural and American Colony Notes appear on pages 20, 21 and 22. There aresome interesting illustrations of Omaja and Bartle and other places. ALL THESE ARTICLES ARE PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. •
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THE CUBA REVIEW AND BULLETIN ALL ABOUT CUBACopyrifht, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. Volume V. SEPTEMBER, 1907. Number 10. HANDLING ORANGES AND GRAPE-FRUIT. Valuable Suggestions on Picking, Curing, Grading and Packing. BY H. HAROLD HUME. Author of Citrus Fruits and Their Culture. FROM THE TREE TO THE BOX. The crop of fruit is on the trees, ready for the hand of the picker. How can wehandle it to get the most money out of it? Granted that it is good fruit, the ideais to put it in the market in as perfect condition as it is on the trees, without speck,spot or blemish. If properly handled no fruit will keep longer or carry better thanthe orange and grape-fruit, but the fruit must be picked carefully, cured well andpacked tight. The skin must neither be broken nor bruised. It requires as muchcare, just as much effort to market the fruit successfully as was required in growing it.Handle like eggs! NECESSARY EQUIPMENT. Packing house. A packing house of some kind should be provided. The

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