Cuban Cane Sugar 



In countries where planting is done 

 every year, such trials entail little 

 risk; for should the crop be a partial 

 failure, it affects only that year and 

 involves no further loss. But in 

 Cuba, where planting is done but 

 once in from seven to ten years, the 

 selection of the wrong kind of cane 

 would bring ruin. 



So Cuba's cane-growers, with 

 neither the land nor the resources, 

 nor the enterprise to experiment, 

 have sat idly back, planting, in most 

 cases, the same old varieties which 

 the Spaniards brought over decades 

 ago. 



Since there are varieties of cane 

 known which produce about twenty- 

 five per cent, more sugar than the 

 present Cuban cane, there is ob- 

 viously incentive, a-plenty, for ex- 

 perimentation with better varieties 

 of cane if the experimenters operate 

 on a scale large enough to insure 

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