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Cristalina, the principal variety of sugar cane cultivated commercially In Cuba, is an excellent, all-round cane for general plantings. This variety fails, however, to give a high yield on dry uplands, and the ratoon or sprout plants have a tendency to deteriorate rather rapidly year by year on land which has been for a very long time under cane cultivation...
Recognizing these facts, the Harvard Botanical Garden began its research and experiments in the hope that better varieties of cane might be developed. This work as a whole has been very successful, not alone in producing improved varieties for the shallower uplands, but also in developing varieties better adapted for the fertile lands, several of which have already been recognized as excellent for commercial cultivation...
Other Harvard canes, especially Hrvd No. 12.029, have not only produced much greater yields in tonnage per caballeria (33 1-2 acres) than Cristalina cane, but have in addition greatly expected that variety in actual sugar content and purity of juice in the stalk...
Recent normal juice analysis conducted in the Soledad Laboratory on a commercial scale, in combination with tests in field tonnage, showed that Cristalina cane cut from moderately fertile land, rating between 24.146 and 54.1 arrobas (25 pounds each) of cane per caballeria, produced from 290 to 457 bags (325 pounds) of 96 degrees sugar per cab. The shallow uplands and older fields of Cristalina produced from 165 to 257 bags per cab. The decrease in quantity from the shallow uplands was due not so much to an inferior quality of juice as to an inferior growth of the cane plant...
...Harvard canes, Hrvd No. 9072 and Hrvd No. 1192, included in the preceding analytical tests, for comparison with Cristalina, gave most satisfactory results. Hrvd No. 9072, a tenaciously rooted, drought-resistant variety, physically adapted for cultivation on the uplands, gave a cane yield of 56.2 arrobas per caballeria on a 1922 planting and a rate of 531 bags 96 degrees sugar per cab. Hrvd No.1192, on land similar to the Cristalina test, gave a cane yield of 53.990 arrobas, and a rate of 493 bags of sugar per caballeria...