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Show Sugar Crops of Hawaii Year after year the sugar crop per acre is being increased on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, and the record thus far is held by the Ewa plantation with the crop hurvested last year, which ran slightly In excess of 18 tons per acre for the 126 acres in the plantation. plan-tation. The yield was four times the average yield for that country, the planters being satisfied with four tons j per acre an.d,deligh,ted when they raise it to five t'orii. t- V.; ' The Cuban; planfers: are growing": wealthy with' -a crop of two or three tons per acre, and the average yiekl is not above two tons. In Hawaii the ' plan in use is to make the plaqtations smaller, develop Intensive cultivation,. I use all scientific information and aids and get much sugar from a few acres, i plan that Is bringing enormous wealth to the growers and much prosperity pros-perity to the Islands. |