Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Botanical Garden, at Soledad, Cuba, has carried on for 25 years research in the breeding of sugar cane and has developed several superior varieties, some for special conditions and others for general commercial cultivation...
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...
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...
...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 on the less fertile...
...realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most imperiously for him who would dare. And if fruit and sugar production fails to fill the craving for the Caribbees, still there is sunshine, and white flannels for the asking, and doubtless castanets and the habanera. Who would quibble when Cuba offers herself to the habitue of Sever...