Report on the census of Porto Rico, 1899 . one of the leading crops ofCuba, is here of trifling importance. To illustrate the tenure of land under different crops and the race ofthe occupant, the following table is presented, showing, for differenttenures and races in percentages, the proportion which was planted ineach of the different crops above enumerated: Crop. Tobacco Sugar cane Rice Sweet potatoes . Malangas Yams Bananas Cocoanuts Coffee Indian corn. ... Whiteowners. IB1 474 Whiterenters. 47282481 184 Coloredowners. 123 15581713315 Coloredrenters. 4 113 322 6 Others. 131 151 112 342 It
Report on the census of Porto Rico, 1899 . one of the leading crops ofCuba, is here of trifling importance. To illustrate the tenure of land under different crops and the race ofthe occupant, the following table is presented, showing, for differenttenures and races in percentages, the proportion which was planted ineach of the different crops above enumerated: Crop. Tobacco Sugar cane Rice Sweet potatoes . Malangas Yams Bananas Cocoanuts Coffee Indian corn. ... Whiteowners. IB1 474 Whiterenters. 47282481 184 Coloredowners. 123 15581713315 Coloredrenters. 4 113 322 6 Others. 131 151 112 342 It is seen from the above table that of the cultivated area owned bywhites 47 per cent, or nearly one-half, was planted in coffee. Bananasoccupied 15 per cent, and sugar cane 14 per cent. Of the area rentedby whites, on the contrary, 47 per cent was planted in sugar cane andbut IS per cent in coffee. This distribution of crops among the areasowned by negroes was wider, coffee occupying nearly one-third of the CENSUS OF PORTO RICO 1898 . HID. A1 f>i--V ,J /?? * S o °o %0 ? ;* O °£w 31 o - m O i° O ^1 8 .-J! AGKICULTUKAL STATISTICS. 153 area, while sugar cane, the second most important crop in the island,occupied only 2 per cent. Among colored renters the areas were alsowidely scattered. The following table shows the proportion of the cultivated land ineach department which was planted with each of these crops, and thusshows the relative importance in the various departments of the severalcrops. In Mayaguez more than half and in Arecibo half the cultivatedarea was planted in coffee; in Aguadilla and Ponce 43 per cent, and inGuayama 38 per cent; sugar cane occupied more than one-half of thecultivated area of Humacao, and more than one-fourth that of these two departments, and these only, sugar was of greater impor-tance than coffee. Crop. Agua-dilla. Arecibo. Baya-mon. Guay-ama. Huma-cao. Maya-guez. Ponce. 161 1121 132 434 151821 221 503 416 313 6 253 210 6 1 12231
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