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Show Possibilities of Cnba. Tho sugar production of Cuba, enormous enor-mous as it now is, can bo increased tenfold. ten-fold. And by tho aid of modern improvements im-provements in the method of manufacture manufac-ture sugar can bo produced so oheaplj there that no other country in the world oan fairly compete with it Only a tithe of the lands adapted to sugar is now under cultivation. Coffee growing, which was once in tho front rank of its industries, has now fallen to a matter of small importanca With capital, and confidence in the honesty and good will of tho government, this industry could again bo put upon a profitable footing. So near as it is to us, and with the rap id improvement in means of transportation, transporta-tion, it is tho natural wintor garden for the United States. There is no question about the "frost line," that bugbear of tho fruit and vegetable growers in our own south, and with cheap lands and cheap labor and the encouragement that steamboat linos are now giving wo could be supplied unfailingly with tropical trop-ical products from this source. Bananas, cocoanuts, oranges, lemons, pineapples, would all pay well toi careful and systematic sys-tematic cultivation. Lippincotti'a |