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the Cuban climate. The same well 

 distributed rains which make the 

 cane grow as it does, serve also to 

 make the cane fields and the roads 

 impassable to the harvesters. The 

 grinding, therefore, is limited to the 

 six months' dry season. During 

 this season the sugar content varies, 

 from eight per cent, at the beginning 

 of the season up to twelve and fif- 

 teen per cent., and even more, at 

 its end. 



The same hand-to-mouth policy 

 which has been in evidence in Cuban 

 cane-growing here comes to the sur- 

 face in Cuban raw sugar manu- 

 facturing. Instead of properly 

 planning the grinding of the crop so 

 as to distribute it over the grinding 

 season, thus gaining the highest per- 

 centage of extraction, growers have 

 been in the habit of holding their 

 crops as long as they dared for a 

 higher sugar content, while the mills 

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