Cuban Cane Sugar 



Where we, in the United States, 

 pay one dollar to a dollar-and-a-half 

 a day for field labor, the average cost 

 in Germany and France is from fifty 

 to seventy cents per day; while in 

 Austria farm and unskilled factory 

 laborers receive only fifteen to thirty 

 cents per day. 



If we add to these facts the further 

 fact that, because of duties, taxes, 

 bounties, and transportation, the re- 

 tail price of cane sugar in Central 

 Europe is much higher than in 

 America, we will see the real under- 

 lying cause of the rise of beet. 



As to "big-money" crops which 

 wrest the land away from the beet, 

 this is a condition met generally in 

 the United States. 



Whether or not the production of 

 beet sugar in any given section can 

 be made a permanent success has 

 been shown to depend largely upon 

 whether or not that section is adapt- 

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