Word: soledad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back the "Utowana" will stop at Tela, Honduras, where the expedition will visit the snake farm maintained by Harvard, the Antivenim Institute of America, and the United Fruit Company. From there he will go to Cuba to the Harvard Biological Laboratory and Botanical Garden at Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba...
...Harvard Botanical Garden, at Soledad, Cuba, has carried on for 25 years research in the breeding of sugar cane and has developed several superior varieties, some for special conditions and others for general commercial cultivation...
Recent normal juice analysis conducted in the Soledad Laboratory on a commercial scale, in combination with tests in field tonnage, showed that Cristalina cane cut from moderately fertile land, rating between 24.146 and 54.1 arrobas (25 pounds each) of cane per caballeria, produced from 290 to 457 bags (325 pounds) of 96 degrees sugar per cab. The shallow uplands and older fields of Cristalina produced from 165 to 257 bags per cab. The decrease in quantity from the shallow uplands was due not so much to an inferior quality of juice as to an inferior growth of the cane plant...
...Washington, which cooperates with the Sugar Club of Cuba, has distributed these Harvard canes to over 30 plantations and experiment stations in Cuba and Central America. The cuttings for these distributions were propagated at the Club's own Experiment Station at Baragua, Cuba, Where they were sent from Soledad...
...Soledad, the crisis became acute. The nationalist Mexican Church was not proving an overnight success. President Calles observed all, entered upon the scene, padlocked La Soledad. As Lent ended, Patriarch Joaquín had no church...