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the right kinds of cane for different soils, improved 

 methods and greater rapidity in juice extraction and 

 treatment, all contribute to this result. The work of 

 cross-fertilization in finding new varieties of cane goes 

 on with redoubled ardour and promises great things 

 in the future. Increase of cane crop coupled with 

 increased richness is what they aim at. It is found 

 that increased quantity of juice in the cane is always 

 accompanied by increased purity of the juice. More 

 juice gives more sugar, and increased purity gives still 

 more sugar. The area in Java, moreover, which will 

 be devoted to sugar goes on increasing. For some 

 time it stood still, because other crops were regarded 

 by the Government as essential to the well-being of the 

 population, but now there is permitted a greater 

 expansion. Fresh ground is being prepared every- 

 where for the cane crops, together with new systems 

 of irrigation, so that eventually more arable land will 

 be available for the sugar manufacturers, who are quite 

 ready to absorb it. In Dr. Prinsen Geerligs' opinion, 

 therefore, there is every expectation of a steady and 

 perhaps sudden extension of the Java sugar industry. 



The history of the sugar industry in Formosa and its 

 probable future have already been described and 

 explained in sufficient detail in Chapter II. 



The Philippine Islands are now under the wing of the 

 United States, and the American Government has 

 ordained that 300,000 tons from that country shall 

 be admitted free of duty into the United States 

 markets. Under ordinary circumstances the result 

 would be that American capitalists would exploit 

 this new field for enterprise, erect monster factories, 

 as they have done in Cuba and Hawaii, and create 

 another vast centre of sugar production. But the 

 interest of the United States' own sugar industries in 



