SUGAR AND SUGAR MAKING. 77 
are so low as to make white labor more productive in 
other branches of industry, yet if put in possession of 
plants suited to their latitudes, the greatly augmented 
price of sugar, at any time, would withdraw these la- 
borers from other employments to turn producers of 
sugar, for their families first, and, from their surplus, to 
supply neighbors and friends. ‘'hus the strife between 
the two is no longer one of latitude, but has become one 
of prices. 
The common sugar cane of the tropics, “ Saccharum 
officinarum,” being of the same family with the plant 
now treated of, and its juices for the manufacture of 
syrup, or sugar, requiring almost an identity of treatment, 
as illustrating this part of my subject I append the 
following description, with illustrations, of the mode of 
cultivating cane and manufacturing sugar on the island 
of Cuba, from the pen of Mr. Reid, who has become 
thoroughly conversant with the matter by a residence 
in those countries. 
THE CULTIVATION OF SUGAR IN THE ISLAND OF CUBA, 
On the island of Cuba, farms or plantations, are di- 
vided into three distinct classes: the ‘ Ingenio,” or sugar 
estate, (pronounced Inhaneo); the “ Cafetal,” or coffee and 
orange estate, (pronounced Caftal); and the “ Potrero,” or 
farm, where stock, grain, or vegetables are produced. It 
being with the first of these only that our subject has to 
do, I will confine my remarks to the “ Ingenio” alone; 
and if; in the sequel, I should at any time mention the 
word “potrero,” it is to be understood as referring, 
