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three years, respectively, was 472, 756, and 938 acres. The total yield 

 was 6,871, 4,540, and 7,006 tons, and the average yield per acre was 

 14.56, 6.00, and 7.47 tons. The total farm value of the beet crop was 

 from $20,000 to $30,000, or a value of $3.68 to $4.47 per ton. The 

 value per acre was given as $49.49, $24.75, and $29.76, respectively, 

 for each of the three years. 



In July, 1902, the excise tariff act came into operation. A duty of £6 

 per long ton, or 1.3 cents per pound, was imposed on imported sugar. 

 This act also provided for an excise tax on all Australian sugar used 

 for home consumption. The tax amounted to £3 per long ton, or 

 sixty-five one-hundredths of 1 cent per pound. Out of this tax a rebate 

 or bounty of £2 per long ton, 0.43 cents per pound, or 86.9 cents per 

 short ten of cane, was paid to the grower for cane produced by white 

 labor. This bounty was made to the grower on the basis that it took 

 10 tons of cane to produce 1 ton of sugar. In December, 1905, the 

 tax was increased to £4 per ton, 0.82 cents per pound, for domestic 

 sugar consumed locally. The bounty also was raised to £3 per long 

 ton of sugar, 0.65 cents per pound, or 6 shillings per ton, $1.30 per 

 short ton of cane, yielding 10 per cent of commercial sugar. In July, 

 1913, the excise and bounty acts were repealed, the growers agreeing 

 not to employ colored labor on the sugar plantations. 



EGYPT. 



CANE SUGAR. 



The territory of Egypt used for the growing of sugar cane is 

 in the valley of the Nile, and this crop is mostly an irrigated one. 

 During the decade 1903-4 to 1912-13 the territory known as Upper 

 Egypt contained 92.9 per cent of the area under cane, while only 7.1 

 per cent was in Lower Egypt. The total area under cultivation in 

 Egypt during the above decade averaged 7,911,000 acres annually, of 

 which 51,296 acres, or 0.6 per cent, was used for sugar cane. The 

 area used for cane has decreased considerably during the last 10 

 years. The area under cane in 1903-4 was 69,470 acres, 40,027 in 

 1907-8, and 50,310 in 1912-13, or an average of 51,296 for the decade. 

 The total yield of cane is not available, but the cane used for sugar 

 decreased from 10.81 tons per acre in 1903-4 to 6.98 tons in 1907-8, 

 and increased to 16.24 tons in 1912-13, or an average of 11.11 tons 

 for the decade. The cane used for sugar decreased from 729,265 

 tons in 1903-4 to 279,388 in 1907-8, and increased to 816,952 in 

 1912-13, or an average of 569,779 for the decade. The production 

 of sugar shows a decrease from 71,172 tons in 1903-4 to 28,154 in 

 1907-8, but increased to 83,135 in 1912-13, or an average of 56,514 

 for the decade. The sugar content of the cane varied from 12.92 

 per cent in 1903-4 to 12.88 per cent in 1912-13, the average for the 



