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some thousand hectares of fairly good sugar land, little of which is 

 at present under cultivation, while 10 kilometers to the north is located 

 the barrio of Manjuyod, with approximately the same amount of land, 

 also uncultivated. Several small streams run through the district, but 

 are of no use for navigation. Land transportation, aside from that 

 along the provincial road to Dumaguete, is restricted to private roads 

 kept up by the individual haciendas. 



Area and production of the district of Bais (WOS). 



Number of growers, 18. 



Area of growers' land planted in sugar can£ 



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

 Other land suited to cane culture but not planted 



Amount. 



Total sugar land 



Average amo\int of sugar land in hectares owned by each grower: 



Planted 



I'nplanted 



Total 



Hectares. \ Per cent. ] 

 1,688 ^.9 i 



1.157 40.4 



20 0. 7 



•2, 865 



93.8 

 64.3 



1.58.1 



Average amount of sugar produced by each grower. 

 Average amount of sugar produced per hectare planted 



Piculs. 

 4,251 

 45.3 



Total sugar 



produced I '^-^"^ 



I Metric tons. 

 ' 268.8 

 2.87 

 4,839 



Since the individual gi'ower here oa\tis more land and lias a larger 

 amount under cultivation than in the majority of other parts of Kegros, 

 he naturally produces a relatively greater amount of sugar, being m 

 this respect second only to the average grower of San Carlos, but the 

 yield per hectare of land planted is only a trifle higher than the general 

 average for the island and less than half of what it should be in a dis- 

 trict so fertile as Bais. As in other regions^ much of the land here 

 reported to be planted in sugar cane is, for the gi-eater part through lack 

 of capital, so poorly cared for that the apparent yield per hectare of 

 the district as a whole is thereby considerably reduced. 



The sugar soils of Bais are in general appearance and chemical com- 

 position much like those of Ilog-Cabancalan, which lies just across, 

 the mountains on the opposite side of the island, and are locally clas- 

 sified into the same three main tj-pes according to texture, those of 

 Bais running perhaps more to the "tierra mestiza" and heavy clay 

 lands, the latter being termed on this side of the island ''lamakan" 

 instead of '"bankil." The following analyses of soils taken from dif- 

 ferent haciendas throughout the entire district represent veiy well the 

 average composition of the sugar lands of Bais : 

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