Cuban Cane Sugar 



case where this has been tried the 

 raw cane sugar has proven a better 

 profit earner for the mill than the 



beets which lay close at hand. 

 * * * * 



Summing up, we see that beet 

 stole a lead on cane because beet had 

 the best minds of Europe improving 

 it while cane suffered from tropical 

 sloth. Beet is at the maximum of its 

 efficiency, while cane has just begun 

 to take its first steps. 



The same inventive genius is now 

 being applied to the improvement of 

 cane and when this improvement 

 reaches its maximum, as it will dur- 

 ing the next few decades, it may con- 

 fidently be expected that beet will 

 take but a minor part in the produc- 

 tion of the world's sugar. 



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