Author: United States Department Of AgriculturePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528439473
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Excerpt from Annual Report of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station for 1911: Under the Supervision of Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture The weather conditions Of the year were good; in fact, crop' failures in Porto Rico are unknown. It is true that on the south side Of the island there is usually a shortage Of rain for the best growth Of the sugar cane, but with the development Of irrigation systems a crop is assured even here at all times. The increase in the production of the island has been due to better cultivation and fertilization rather than to the extension of the area planted. The better cultivation has been brought about by a study Of conditions and the extended use Of machinery. Labor in general has been plentiful and is considered cheap. It is getting scarce in some industries and, moreover, it is not cheap as compared with efficient machine lab'or. The man with the hoe at 50 cents per day can not compete with the man with the plow at $3 per day. The real way to economize labor is by placing ma chinery in its hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
