SUGAS PKOtHJCTTOiT US' IT. S. AND FOREIGN COtTNTRIES. 3l 
vested throughout the year without interruption, but the principal 
harvest season is from October to February. The cane in the coast 
region requires 18 to 20 months to mature and from 8 to 12 crops 
may be harvested from one planting. The varieties mostly in use 
were from Java. Peru, Egypt, Louisiana, and Hawaii, The Peruvian 
variety yielded the largest quantity of cane per acre, but the varieties 
from Java, Egypt, and Hawaii were richest in sugar. 
The area used for sugar cane was 79,072 acres in 1910-11, 91,746 in 
1911-12, and 97,743 in 1912-13. The cane crushed amounted to 
1,918,028 tons in 1911-12 and 2,056,816 in 1912-13, from which 
212,474 and 202,772 tons of sugar, respectively, were obtained. The 
}neld of cane per acre for these two years was 20.91 and 21.04 tons, 
respectively, and the yield of sugar per acre was 4.14 and 4.09 tons. 
The percentage of sugar extraction per weight of cane was 11.08 per 
cent in 1911-12 and 9.86 per cent in 1912-13. The yield of sugar per 
ton of cane for these two years was 222 pounds and 197 pounds, re- 
spectively. The people employed in the Peruvian sugar factories 
were 16,977 in 1910-11, 19,945 in 1911-12, and 20,942 in 1912-13. 
The average production of sugar per employee for these three 
years, respectively, was 10.15, 10.65, and 9.94 tons. The importance 
of the coast region as a cane-growing section is shown by the figures 
for 1912-13. The total production of sugar that year in the 38 
factories was 202,772 tons, of which 197,737 tons, or 97.5 per cent, 
were produced in the coast region, as against 5,035 tons, or 2.5 per 
cent, for the mountain region. The production has gradually in- 
creased from 151,489 tons in 1903-4 to 202,772 in 1912-13, or an 
average of 176,603 for the decade. The exports decreased from 
145,457 tons in 1903-4 to 121,931 in 1906-7 and increased to 194,742 
in 1913-14, or an average of 143,742 tons for the decade ending with 
1912-13. For this decade the exports amounted to 81.4 per cent of 
the production. 
BRITISH GUIANA (DEMARARA). 
CANE SUGAR. 
The sugar-cane area of British Guiana is located chiefly in the 
lowlands along the coast and is protected by massive dykes. The 
cane areas are all reclaimed land and drained into the sea by the 
use of steam pumps or by sluices. In 1911 the area of drained marsh 
land amounted to about 160,000 acres, of which nearly one-half was 
in cane. The cane is transported exclusively by water along the 
navigable canals that run through the sugar plantations. Only two 
or three crops of cane are cut from one planting. Until recent years 
the Bourbon cane was practically the only variety planted, but that 
has been supplanted by other varieties, and since 1908-9 the area 
