World's Sugar Bowl 



is beet sugar grown within her own 

 borders; less than one-twentieth is 

 cane sugar of her own growing. 



The figures of Willett & Gray show 

 that in 1914 the United States im- 

 ported 2,066,912 tons of cane sugar 

 in addition to all the sugar produc- 

 tion of her own states and territories. 

 Cuba, therefore, had at her very door 

 a ready market for practically four- 

 fifths of her 2,597,732 ton crop. 



The United States, of course, is 

 not her only market; Cuba is nearer 

 to England than India; nearer to 

 Central Europe than Java. And the 

 recent past has shown that the 

 slightest strain in Europe pulls in- 

 stantly on the Cuban sugar supply. 

 * * * * 



Porto Rico cannot much increase 

 her output; her total area is con- 

 siderably less than that of New 

 Jersey, and only a small portion of 

 this, on the coastal regions, is suited 

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