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Area and production of the San Carlos district (1908), 



Number of growers, 14. 



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 



Amount. 



Hectares. 



2,080 



866 



500 



Piculs. 



Average amount of sugar produced by each grower i 5,450 



Average amount of sugar produced per.hectare planted ' 36. 



Total sugar produced 76,300 



Per cent. 

 60.4 

 25.1 

 14.5. 



Metric tons, 

 344.7 

 2.32 

 4,826 



The average gi'ower of this district owns a larger amount of land, 

 has more of it under cultivation, and produces annually a greater quan- 

 tity of sugar than elsewhere in Negros, although the average yield of 

 sugar per lieetare reported under cultivation is very small, being, in 

 fact, less than half of what even a moderately good field in this locality 

 will ordinarily produce. San Carlos has suffered much of late from 

 drought, due in a great measure to the almost total destruction of 

 the forests and shrubbeiy in the foothills and mountains lying Just back 

 of all the plantations. This has been brought about by nomadic moun- 

 tain people, who burn off a small patch of land to form a "caingin,'^ 

 which they plant in corn for a year or so, until weeds begin to spring 

 up and a little real work is necessary for further cultivation, when they 

 move on to devastate more forest land farther along. It will probably 

 be many years before San Carlos completely recovers from the evil effects 

 already produced by these "caingins," even if this wanton destruction 

 of timber can be at once stopped, which seems rather doubtful, although 

 some steps are now being taken to keep the practice in check. 



The following is a table giving analyses of representative types of 

 soil from this district, together with remarks as to their approximate 

 yield and relative merits according to the local classification. 



