Cuban Cane Sugar 



crops, season after season, without 

 fresh planting, after having been cut 

 uninterruptedly for thirty years. 



In Hawaii, on the other hand, long 

 famous for its sugar production, the 

 cane not only must be planted for 

 every second or third crop, but 

 eighteen months of continuous, in- 

 tensive cultivation is required to 



bring a crop to maturity. 

 * * * * 



The history of cane sugar in Cuba 

 reads like a romance. 



About twenty years elapsed after 

 the discovery of Cuba, by Chris- 

 topher Columbus, in 1492, before 

 sugar cane was sent by Spain to 

 Cuba for planting. The experiment 

 showed the Spaniards the perfect 

 suitability of Cuba's fertile soil for 

 cane's growth and development; but 

 the Spanish government of the six- 

 teenth and seventeenth centuries 

 was gold-mad and discouraged agri- 

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