. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . forth ex-cellent results for another period of years without any rotationof crops being necessary. Not more than ten per cent^ of thetotal area of Cuba is devoted to the growing of cane. In addi-tion to the ground on which cane is actually planted, largetracts are needed as pasture for draft cattle. Besides, there is 1 A well-known authority on sugar culture states that ratoons constitute about 90 percent of the Cuban crop, and that it takes twelve months for ratoons to ripen. Primavera,or cane planted in the spring,
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . forth ex-cellent results for another period of years without any rotationof crops being necessary. Not more than ten per cent^ of thetotal area of Cuba is devoted to the growing of cane. In addi-tion to the ground on which cane is actually planted, largetracts are needed as pasture for draft cattle. Besides, there is 1 A well-known authority on sugar culture states that ratoons constitute about 90 percent of the Cuban crop, and that it takes twelve months for ratoons to ripen. Primavera,or cane planted in the spring, is cut when twelve months old, and cana fria, or caneplanted in the fall, is cut when it is between fourteen and eighteen months old. The in-dustry has been greatly extended during 1915 and 1916, and consequently much newplanting has been done. These plantings will be ratooned after the first crop is taken oflf. 2 Geerligs, p. 177. 3 On December 16, l9i4,Willett & Gray gave the average as between2,250,000 and 2,500,000, to which the recent new plantings must be
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