Excerpt from The Cultivation of Sugar Cane in the West Indies Cane can be grown in a great variety of soils, but It thrives best on rather heavy clay loams. On such soils. It will endure long periods of drought, but frequent rams or irrigation are necessary for rapid growth. Standing water about the roots is very injurious. The principal cane soils of the West Indies may all be classified under some one of the following headings. 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 techlogy 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.