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a porous subsoil ; the saccharine becoming too 

 watery on a wet clay. In Natal, the cane is 

 left to dry for two months before it is cut for 

 crushin«< in order that moisture may evaporate 

 from the juice and leave the latter concentrated. 

 The yield of cane at Inhambane, where Inham- 

 bane green is principally grown, is from 25 to 

 38 tons per acre. In 1910 it averaged 40J tons ; 

 10 tons 7 kilos of cane producing 1 ton of 

 sugar. This is equivalent to 4 tons of sugar 

 per acre. This little estate, it may be observed, 

 takes high nink in the Province, its records 

 surpassing those of any other. The cost of 

 growing and manufacturing a ton is from 



£5 10s. to jec. 



At Inhanguvo, on the Buzi, 27 fields of cane 

 (Yuba), aggregating 698*22 acres, yielded 38-6 

 tons of cane and 2*83 tons of sugar per acre. 

 This is at the rate of 1 ton of sugar from 

 10*3 tons of cane. Two fields only were culti- 

 vated between the rows, and these yielded, 

 respectively, 60-9 tons of cane and 4-46 tons of 

 sugar, and 70*8 tons of cane and 5*1 tons of 

 sugar per acre ; an example of what can be 

 effected by adopting a higher standard of 

 cultivation. 



On the Zambezi one variety, 109 D, gave, 

 from 400 acres, an average of 75 tons per acre. 



