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Farther to the inland, for some 10 kilometers, the country is fairly level, 

 and here are to be found the greater number of the haciendas. East of 

 the town of La Carlota the country becomes more rolling in character, 

 and is so much broken by hills and small streams that only a very 

 small proportion of the part farthest to the interior of the district is 

 suitable for cultivation. 



Area and production of the Pontevedra-La Carlota district (1908). 



Number of growers, 47. 



Area of growers' land planted in sugar cane 



Area of growers' land suited to cane culture but not planted 



other land suited to cane culture but not planted 



Total sugar land 



Average amount of sugar land in hectares owned by each grower: 



Planted 



Unplanted 



Total L 



Average amount of sugar produced by each grower 



Average amount of sugar produced per hectare planted . 

 Total sugar produced . 



Piculs. 

 4,045 

 69.5 

 190, 098 



Metric tons. 

 255. 8 

 4.39 i 

 12, 024 I 



In point of production and total area of available sugar land this 

 district is second only to Silay and far surpasses the latter in yield 

 per hectare. In this point, indeed. La Carlota gives better results than 

 the majority of other sections of Negros, the average yield of 69.5 

 piculs per hectare of land planted being very nearly what might be 

 expected from fairly good sugar soil on any well-managed plantation. 

 The larger yield in this locality may be attributed partially to the soil, 

 which is decidedly richer here than in either Bago or Silay, and also 

 largely to the fact that in La Carlota the haciendas are, as a rule, 

 of greater extent and less handicapped by lack of capital, a number 

 of them being owned or financed by business houses of Iloilo. Moreover, 

 of the total sugar land available a less percentage is reported as ac- 

 tually planted than in any other -district, a greater proportion of the 

 yearly crop thus coming from fresh land, and this not on account of 

 poor soil, but more probably because of inadequate milling facilities 

 to take care of a larger crop. Some ratoon cane is grown here, more 

 particularly in the interior, where, on new soils, the first planting is 

 said to yield watery cane and a poor quality of sugar, but the great 

 majority of the haciendas must replant each year. 



Back in the foothills at the base of Mount Canlaon, 10 kilometers 

 from La Carlota, lies the so-called "Granja Modelo'- or model farm, 

 established for experimental purposes by the Spanish Government, con- 

 taining 80 hectares of good sugar land. Much benefit to the sugar 



