Cuban Cane Sugar 



other purposes, whereas, cane flour- 

 ishes best in the tropics with land, 

 which, assuming that the Mahogany 

 and Cedar pays the cost of clearing, 

 costs from six to fifteen dollars per 

 acre and is good for little else. 



The beet requires expensive irri- 

 gation, cultivation and care, involv- 

 ing high priced temperate zone labor; 

 whereas the cane, in equally suitable 

 surroundings requires no irrigation 

 and little or no cultivation only 

 harvesting by cheap tropical help at 



a few cents a week. 



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To put the comparison in money, 

 it may be stated that the average pro- 

 ducer of beets in the United States 

 realizes an annual profit of from fif- 

 teen to forty dollars per acre, with 

 land costing from forty to two hun- 

 dred dollars as his investment; while 

 the average producer of Cuba real- 

 izes an annual profit of from thirty 

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