Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Relation of Applied Science to Sugar Production in Hawaii: A Report
Hawaii ranks third among the countries supplying cane sugar to the markets of the world. Cuba and Java take first and second That the output of both Cuba and Java is far in excess of that of Hawaii is graphically told by the accompanying chart, and is readily accounted for by the more advantageous conditions under which the industry in these foreign islands is Operated.
It might be concluded at first thought, because these three widely separated island localities are to the forefront in catering to the demand for cane sugar, that their success is due to some favored conditions with which they have been endowed in com mon against the rest of the world lying within equivalent lati This is not the case. The culti 'al)le areas of Cuba. Java and Hawaii are but the smallest fraction of the total frost-free tillable areas of the globe. To enter fully into an explanation of why the cane sugar industry has attained ascendancy on these islands would be to trace the sociological and political upheavals that have affected the decline of cane sugar production, first in the countries around the Mediterranean, afterwards in Brazil, San Domingo. The British Indies and other districts where, to go back to early history, there w'ere promising cane sugar outlooks. It suffices for the present, however, to show that the survival of sugar production in Cuba, in Java, and in Hawaii is due to separate and distinct causes. For the-industries of the three districts are built upon totally dissimilar foundations.
The mainstay of sugar production in Cuba is the abundance of cheap lands.
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