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Show Atuerltan lloraaa la Cuba. I A correspondent of tho Chicago Ilec. I trd writes that Journal from Wnih- 1 Ington: "American horses do not I thrive on our new possessions. It takes I them a long time to become nccllmat- I cd. Tho hoat, the malaria nnd Insect 1 pests are moro of a trial to beasts than I to men. Texas pontes or bronchos. I -- .... I'wutca ,i uruncnos, SB however, do very well In Cuba nnd I Porto IIIco, and 800 have been shipped I over to Cuba since the close of the war. I Three or four hundred have been I shipped to Porto Illco. Any man who I will go down Into Cuba and ratsa mules H nnd ponies will make a fortune, be- cause the draft animals have almost I been exterminated during the war, and I a groat many aro needed upon tho plantation! as woll as by tho military I forces. The belt stock for that climate I Is tha hardy llttlo bono that Is found In Texas and Now Mexico." That Is a I point we called attention to a year ago, when the war broke out. Tho climate ot Tens, and tho conditions surround- I tng horses In that state, would natur- H ally enable them to become moro easily H acclimated In Cuba and Porto Illco than northern horses. A New lUmls l'laut The Agriculture. Ledger of Calcutta, India, announces the discovery for the government ot a plant described at Imllar but tuperlor to ramie. Hamle furnishes an extremely fine, strong and valuable fiber, suitable for mavinr line, high-clan textile goods, and tht only thing which baa operated to prevent pre-vent Ita culture extensively In this country Is the fact that It has to be degummed, which Is always a costly procets. Thlt new kind of rnmle, It It can be to called. It free from gum, ind therefore doet not, tn Its production, produc-tion, present thlt difficulty The department de-partment of agriculture Is investigating investigat-ing the subject, and It arranging to procure teed for trial and distribution. Mr. Jared O. Smith of the department states thtt a ramie which does not require degummlng would, In nit probability, prob-ability, prove a highly valuable acqul-iltlon, acqul-iltlon, and Its Introduction might be i tho meant ot starting a new line of , Industry In the United States. Such a plant, he says, might to some extent rcplaco hemp. |