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Show HOW SUGAR MADE CUBA A WORLD EL DORADO Sugar, like shoes, wo onco took for granted. Hut procuring enough for tbo preserving season was a problem mid sugar "speak eiisles" are still not uncommon In InndH where tho supply Is rationed. Writing to the National Geographic woclety, William Joseph Show-alter says: "With u wigitr production nearly doubled and prices mora than quadrupled quad-rupled since 1012; one cnu readily see why Cuba Is tho world's HI Dorado of 11(20. and why sugar Is Its king. "Tho Imagination Is almost overpowered over-powered In attempting to comprehend tho Vast proportions of tlm sugar Industry In-dustry of the Island as It exiwtH this year. "Tho cano produced Is of such tremendous tre-mendous volume that a procession of bull teams four- nbreast, reaching around the earth, would be required to move It. The crop would sufllcu to build a solid wall around tho entire two thousand mites of the Island's coast line as high an an ordinary dwelling dwell-ing house nnd thick enough for a file of four men to walk abreast on it. MaaMHaMHBfJBHMH woiT i? ,r"rtl from (his enno big rotn Havana , NVw Yorf w,' hundred I Mt stretch between tho two T"V T,,1" "t pyramid of Cheops, befoio wnow wi. infirm proportion propor-tion mlllloiis of ,h.,,,i. have stood "lid gnml In 0pw, inoiithl ntllnze- nent, mnnim. after the tbousund ers. unrhalP.1 ns ,, nmiuii.iental pile; "it mm' w,Knr om put this year nld uinke two pjniniids, each out--luslii(f IIMd overtoppliiB r,eops. " ''The wenltli (. onioning sugar crop brings In 1, ,,t !,., ,-,.tllnrkainu In its l-rnporilons. roor iIIMl,lriHi ,i0nnrs out ''f a sIiikIh ,.ro,, f(ir ,,,-y hxsmta ,e. ing who lives lm thu Island n sum olniost ns great as the or capita wealth produced by nil the farms, all tho forlorn H11)i ,,,, ,he llMlts of , United States. "What wonder, then, thnt Cuba today to-day Is n land of gold and gems, richer than Midas ever was, converting Croesus, by contrntrt, Into a beggar? "How miidi net 1)ro(it t,t, cuno grower grow-er reaps at 1020 prices Is hard to estimate, es-timate, but that It Is lorge will apjieor when the methods of cane growing nro stated. To begin with, after the flrst. crop the plainer does not hnvo to bother wiih M?d time for about ten years. The soil Is so deep and so fertile that one planting produces ttjn harvests. Neither does cultivation bother him after the ilrst season, for the blades stripped from one crop form a mulch that k-eps the weeds from competing1 with tho next one' |