. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . JAMAICA 217 In 1907 the value of the fruit shipments in pounds sterlingwas as follows: Bananas £842,689 Citrus fruits 90,468 as against Sugar 122,328 Rum 98,923 On January 14, 1907, an appalling earthquake occurred. Thebuildings in Kingston and Port Royal were destroyed or badlydamaged and about one thousand people were killed. In 1906 the area under cultivation in Jamaica was 750,000acres and of this only 26,000 were devoted to cane. Sugar plant-ing has been in a stagnant condition for years and only alimited number
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . JAMAICA 217 In 1907 the value of the fruit shipments in pounds sterlingwas as follows: Bananas £842,689 Citrus fruits 90,468 as against Sugar 122,328 Rum 98,923 On January 14, 1907, an appalling earthquake occurred. Thebuildings in Kingston and Port Royal were destroyed or badlydamaged and about one thousand people were killed. In 1906 the area under cultivation in Jamaica was 750,000acres and of this only 26,000 were devoted to cane. Sugar plant-ing has been in a stagnant condition for years and only alimited number of the estates that still carry on the industryare making money. Many have stopped growing cane entirelyand have turned to bananas, cocoanuts, coffee or cattle certain districts there is plenty of fertile alluvial land, amplewater and cheap labor, but proper cultivation is lacking, so thatthe results are far from what they should be. Planting simplyconsists of sticking a piece of cane stalk in a hole in the groundand very little ploughing is done, consequently
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