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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ultiplication of lOi the acre yield in tons, by thethe open market. each ton brought in FREQUENT REPLANTING. The eighteen months growth allowed eachHawaiian sugar crop, and the fact that rattoon-ing (leaving the field to a second volunteergrowth) is seldom carried beyond one season,are both important elements in the large yields.Even on some of the windward plantations,where the crops depend entirely upon rainfall,the acreage production is steadily beyond thatof other sugar countries. If a rattoon fieldis not deemed capable of producing thirty tonsof cane (the equivalent of from three to fourtons of sugar) to the acre, it is torn up and plant set out. In other countries, notablyin Cuba and Louisiana, growers often allowcane to run for ten and even fifteen years, witha steadily diminishing yield, rather than go tothe expense and trouble of setting plant. CANE TRANSPORTED TO MILL BY WATER FLUMES. The great rainfall of the island of Hawaii,the heaviest producer of the group, obviates the
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A GROUP OF PORTO RICAN, KOREAN, JAPANESE, AND PORTUGUESE WOMEN, FIELD HANDS ON A SINGLE PLANTATION ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI, HAWAII. 704 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.

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