Cuban Cane Sugar 



quently to the Hawaiian Islands 

 where it was propagated in the usual 

 way, so that, in due course, sufficient 

 plants were raised from it to be 

 tested as to their qualities of growth, 

 hardiness, and sugar-production. It 

 was soon discovered that the prog- 

 eny of this seedling constituted 

 virtually a new race of sugar cane; 

 one that would grow on land so poor 

 that it had been allowed to remain 

 fallow. The new variety, indeed, 

 was found to produce more sugar on 

 even the poorest land than the 

 ordinary variety produces on good 

 land. 



The impetus which this discovery 

 gave to the study of improving the 

 cane may in a large measure account 

 for Hawaii's great superiority, in the 

 quality of cane raised, over other 

 cane-producing countries. 



In Hawaii, today, not only is the 

 acreage output the highest of any 

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