Cuban Cane Sugar 



not merely a twenty-five per cent, 

 increase in earnings, but might mean 

 even trebled or quadrupled earnings ; 

 for since it costs no more to plant, 

 or cultivate, or harvest, or crush the 

 cane every additional per cent, of 

 sugar secured can be counted net 

 gain. 



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The development of better suited 

 varieties of cane, however, repre- 

 sents but a small part of the oppor- 

 tunity offered in improved sugar 

 production. Equally great advances 

 might also be attained through bet- 

 ter methods of soil tillage, main- 

 tenance of property and plantation 

 management. 



As matters now stand, deep plow- 

 ing is almost unknown in Cuba 

 scratching the soil has always 

 brought a crop, so surface scratching 

 is all the soil has had. Once the 

 same thorough methods that are the 

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