Cuban Cane Sugar 



lay idle; much good cane has thus 

 been lost because in the final-mo- 

 ment rush the mills were taxed far 

 beyond their capacity. It has be- 

 come the practice of mills, thus, to 

 bend every effort toward handling 

 the largest quantity of cane, paying 

 little attention to the wastage which 

 such high pressure methods involve. 

 And the net result has been that 

 Cuba has wasted a considerable 

 percentage of her sugar which, sim- 

 ply by efficient management, might 



have been saved. 



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Sugar-growing, and sugar-growing 

 in Cuba, particularly, must, essen- 

 tially, be a large scale operation. 



The small grower, today, finds 

 himself unable to compete with even 

 the few moderate-sized sugar under- 

 takings which have sprung up in 

 Cuba; and with production be- 

 coming better and better organized, 

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