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