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rule in Iowa, or the Dakotas, or Cal- 

 ifornia, are introduced into Cuban 

 cane culture, amazing results may 

 reasonably be expected. 



The truth is that the land is so 

 rich and the climate so well suited 

 to cane, that those simple methods 

 of making agriculture pay, which 

 every other farmer employs, have 

 been neglected and shunned; and 

 the cane crop has been left to the 



graces of a too bounteous Nature. 

 * * * * 



A story is told of an undertaking, 

 some years ago, to provide the 

 American Indian with better means 

 of earning his livelihood. The ques- 

 tion was asked of a wise Indian 

 commissioner if, in his estimation, 

 the Indian could successfully engage 

 in raising sugar beets. 



"Yes," was the reply, "if he 

 could do it on horseback." 



Very similar, indeed, has been the 

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