Word: ratoons
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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...
...ratoon fields of both of these Harvard variants, planted side by side with Cristalina, have always shown superior yields and a much slower depreciation in field value: consequently they require replanting less frequently, which is an important consideration, as new plantings usually cause the loss of a harvest and an outlay of $2,000 to $2,500 per caballeria...
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