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emigration before the war was 3,400 per annum. The remittances 

 from the emigrants are considerable and money is invested in 

 landed property. 



Madeira has to import wheat, maize, and other foodstuffs. 

 Property is changing hands. New methods have to be introduced 

 in order to meet new social conditions. 



Azores Islands 



are quite different from Madeira. Agriculture has been much 

 more developed there. Sugar beet is grown at S. Miguel, where 

 4,000 tons of sugar are manufactured each year. 



Cattle fattening has been encouraged by the beetroot residues, 

 and 3,000 head of cattle are being exported to Lisbon per annum. 

 The production of butter amounts to 500 tons. 



Pineapples are being exported at an average of one million 

 per annum, and millions of oranges constitute one of the main 

 exports. But the orange groves were destroyed by different insects 

 and great trouble has been caused in that branch of agriculture. 



Imports of beans from Italy into Portugal, amounting to 

 200,000 per annum before the war, are now being supplied by 

 the Acores Islands. 



Tea was introduced in the middle of the 19th century and 

 has proved a success. The Lisbon and Porto markets consume 

 220 tons of tea, of which 90 tons are from the Azores. 



Tobacco growing is very popular in some lands and the annual 

 yield is/ 300 tons. 



Paper pulp and fibres are being produced in small quantities. 

 The Phormium tenax, introduced from New Zealand, has proved 

 well at St. Miguel and 300 tons of fibres have been exported to 

 the United States. 



Two thousand tons of chalk are exported per annum, and 

 700 h.p. generated by a waterfall is supplied to the industries 

 every year. An electric tramway line is being contemplated. 

 The number of emigrants to America averaged 5,000 per annum 

 in the pre-war years. Recently it has been compensated by an 

 immigration of approximately 8,000 per annum, showing the 

 prosperity of the people. The remittances from the emigrants 

 play a considerable part in the development of these Islands. 



There is a good artificial harbour at Ponta Delgada, where 

 more than 1,000 steamers call every year, carrying 70,000 

 passengers. 



Communications with the United States have directed trade 

 to America. 



Table waters, sulphur, fisheries might still expand with great 

 advantage for the economy of the Islands. 



