. The Cuba review. 30 THE CUBA REVIEW. Parte de las Trayectorias de los Huracanes que han pasado por la Isla de Cuba en este ano de 1909. Path of the 1909 Hurricanes in Cuba. Proper Distance for Cane Planting. The experiments which were originally planned to show what is the proper dis- tance to plant cane have been continued and have been very conclusive in their character. So far as the old red land is concerned, the tendency in Cuba has been to plant too wide. In these lands the cane does not send out many shoots and the crop for the first year or two is not as large as it is when the canes
. The Cuba review. 30 THE CUBA REVIEW. Parte de las Trayectorias de los Huracanes que han pasado por la Isla de Cuba en este ano de 1909. Path of the 1909 Hurricanes in Cuba. Proper Distance for Cane Planting. The experiments which were originally planned to show what is the proper dis- tance to plant cane have been continued and have been very conclusive in their character. So far as the old red land is concerned, the tendency in Cuba has been to plant too wide. In these lands the cane does not send out many shoots and the crop for the first year or two is not as large as it is when the canes are planted close. It is of importance that the first few crops be as large as possible, since the cane does not last long in such lands— four or five years at most. Moreover, the land should be shaded as soon as possible in order to keep down weeds and grasses and prevent the wasting effects of the sun and rain on the available plant food in the soil. A great many fertilizer'tests have been made, all of which show the value of fer- tilizers in old lands where the cultivation is attended to properly and there is either a sufficiency of rainfall or where the cane is irrigated. Some very conclusive experiments in ir- rigation have been made which show en- hanced yields following a liberal use of water. are under way to test the value of different quantities of water and the value of fertilizers when applied in connection with irrigation. have proved absolutely that for the land of this station wide cane planting is not profitable, and that in gen- eral cane is planted too wide in Cuba. In the case of virgin < r very rich land that is planted once only in a great many j'ears it might make little difference if the cane is planted close or wide, as in a few years the cane will fill up the intervening space between the rows, but where the cane is replanted every few years it should be planted close so as to give a large number of stalks the first year.
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