V. Cuban Cane Sugar 

 America's Opportunity 



An English physician living on 

 the little island of Trinidad observed 

 one day that grass-like plants were 

 coming up here and there in the cane 

 fields. 



The planters whom he asked about 

 it told him it was grass, and showed 

 no further curiosity. The physician, 

 however, unable to account for grass 

 seeds having fallen there, suspected 

 that these were really the shoots of 

 seedling sugar-canes. 



It developed later that both the 

 planters and the physician were right. 

 The little shoots were young sugar- 

 cane plants; but since sugar cane 

 itself is a giant grass, there was no 

 mistake. 



The importance of the physician's 

 observation lay in the fact that sugar- 

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