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Binalbagan portion. Xearly all the land here is owned by one large 

 estate, which, apparently lacking the necessary capital properly to cul- 

 tivate it, either allows it to lie idle or in uncultivated ratoons of long 

 standing, or rents it out in small parcels to native planters. The 

 average yield of land actually in cane in the municipality of Binalbagan 

 is only 1.35 metric tons per hectare, whereas the somewhat better 

 cultivated, but no richer, soils of Isabela produce a little over double 

 this, amount. The average amount of land owned by each planter is 

 just about the same as that in other parts of the island, although de- 

 cidedly more is reported as under cultivation, this latter circumstance 

 being also due to the greater preponderance of ratoon cane in this 

 region. 



Below are given analyses of soils throughout this district. As no 

 cane analyses were made here, the figures as to quality and quantity 

 of sugar produced, etc., refer to statements made by individual planters. 



Soil analyses, district of Binalbagan-Isabela. 



