13 Industrial Cuba 



All but 19 per cent of Cuba's exports go to the 

 United States. 



Owing to the European War, which began in 

 the summer of 1914, the beet sugar product of 

 France and Germany was eliminated, causing a 

 marked rise in the price of cane sugar throughout 

 the world. As a result of this, the value of the 

 crop produced in the Island this year reached a 

 total of $250,000,000.00. The latter sum seems 

 almost startling when it is taken into consider- 

 ation that only 12 per cent of Cuba's area is 

 cultivated in cane. Less than 3 per cent of avail- 

 able land is in tobacco and not over 5 per cent in 

 other crops. 



