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constant earnings while the experi- 

 mentation takes place. 



Nor can it be doubted that the 

 scientific plant-breeder can work a 

 much greater increase, even, than is 

 represented by the best varieties now 

 in existence. By cross-breeding and 

 selection, if enough experiments be 

 tried, it will be possible to evolve a 

 variety of cane which will get the 

 utmost out of the wonderful soil 

 Cuba offers as a habitat. 



To the hand-to-mouth owner of a 

 small plantation, such experiments 

 seem out of the question. But to a 

 company with a 100,000 to 500,000 

 ton production, experimentation up- 

 on a scale bound to bring success 

 would cost a mere fraction of a per 

 cent, of its earnings. 



The result, on the other hand, if, 



for example, a twenty-five per cent. 



increase of sugar per 100 parts of 



cane were secured, would represent 



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