IV. Cuba- -The Sugar 

 Bowl of the World 



If our sugar crop is to be multi- 

 plied by seven as prospective needs 

 seem to require, we must, in a survey 

 such as this, see where the increase 

 is to come from; and, assuming that 

 beet, under the double stress of ever 

 increasing competition from better- 

 paying temperate-zone crops and 

 improvement in the production of 

 cane, is to be less and less in evi- 

 dence, we must see where cane, par- 

 ticularly, can be extended. 



After fourteen centuries of experi- 

 ment with cane, two spots have 

 established themselves as pre-emi- 

 nently suited to its culture two 

 spots have been found where soil, 

 temperature, rainfall, and all of the 

 other necessary elements seem to 

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