. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . to peculiar climatic conditions, sugar cane has beenraised in southern Spain for generations, notwithstanding thefact that the provinces in which the sugar cane is grown lie,roughly speaking, between thirty-six degrees and thirty-eightdegrees north latitude. The Gulf Stream is no doubt largely re-sponsible for this phenomenon. The quantity of sugar producedin Spain, however, is small, the crop of 1914-15 amounting toless than 8000 tons. Sugar cane thrives best in a moist, warm climate, with mod-erate intervals of dry,
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . to peculiar climatic conditions, sugar cane has beenraised in southern Spain for generations, notwithstanding thefact that the provinces in which the sugar cane is grown lie,roughly speaking, between thirty-six degrees and thirty-eightdegrees north latitude. The Gulf Stream is no doubt largely re-sponsible for this phenomenon. The quantity of sugar producedin Spain, however, is small, the crop of 1914-15 amounting toless than 8000 tons. Sugar cane thrives best in a moist, warm climate, with mod-erate intervals of dry, hot weather, and plenty of water forirrigation. It requires marly soil, free from saline a rule, it is raised on the lowlands, where the temperatureis highest and where it is easy to bring water for irrigation. InHawaii it takes eighteen months to ripen, and tasseling oc-curs about thirty days before it is ready to be cut. In Louisianaand Texas, because of the short seasons, cane is harvested infrom nine to ten months from the time of sprouting, and, con-.
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