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Rainfall. 



65 

 68 



35 

 97 

 53 

 13 

 28 

 oo 



Rainfall. 

 3-86 

 2*60 

 2-81 

 07 



02 

 '83 

 '48 

 06 



Mauritius. 18 Over the years 1892-1905 the average yield of cane was 

 20 -6 tons per acre, with extremes of 27*6 and 7-0, the result last quoted 

 being obtained in a year of great drought. The corresponding return ^of 

 sugar would be in the neighbourhood of 2 25 tons per acre. 



Cuba. 16 For the year 1909 the average over the whole island was 18-6 

 tons of cane per acre, corresponding to a little over 2 tons of sugar. With 

 the increased acreage of virgin land that has since been planted in eastern 

 Cuba the return now (1920) will tend to be higher, and is probably a little 

 over 20 tons. 



Queensland 16 For the years 1909 and 1910 the yield of cane was 16-0 

 and 20-3 tons, the return of sugar being 1-77 and 2-32 tons per acre. 



British India 19 For the years 1898-9 to 1905-6 the average production 

 from the reported acreage was o 96 ton of very crude sugar per acre. 



Peru. The occasional statements that appear indicate that here the 

 irrigated plantations give a very high yield, little if any less than that obtained 

 under similar circumstances in the Hawaiian Islands. 



For all the other districts engaged in growing cane, it is safe to con- 

 clude from the occasional statements that appear that the average production 

 of sugar lies in the neighbourhood of two short tons per acre. 



REFERENCES IN CHAPTER VIII 



1. Int. Sug. Jour., 1904, 6, 277 ; 336. 



2. Stubbs' " Sugar Cane." 



3. Dept. of Lands, Records and Agric., Madras, 2, 102. 



4. Stubbs' " Sugar Cane." 



5. Southern Agriculture. 



6. Culture de la Canne a Sucre a Guadeloupe. 



7. H.S.P.A. Ex. Sta., Agric. Ser., Bull. 25. 



8. Department of Lands, Records and Agric., Madras, 2, 10. 



9. H.S.P.A. Ex. Sta., Agric. Ser., Bull. 44. 



10. U.S. Patents 1,227,989 ; 1,249,355 ; 1,274,527. 



11. S. C., 1894, 26, 223. 



12. S. C., 1895, 27, 76 ; 1898, 30, 258. 



13. Int. Sug. Jour., 1904, 6, 381. 



14. Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of South America. 



15. Herbarium Amboinense. 



1 6. From occasional statements and consular reports. 



17. Int. Sug. Jour., 1910, 12, 326 ; Cyclopaedia of American Agriculture, i, 106. 



1 8. The Sugar Industry of Mauritius. 



19. Dictionary of the Economic Products of India. 



