Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1918 — Java’s Sugar Production. [ARTICLE]

Java’s Sugar Production.

Java is such a fruitful land that one hesitates to specify the principal crop, but it is one of the great sugar-pro-ducing countries of the world. The annual export of sugar amounts to something like 1,700,000 tons. People are so accustomed to thinking of sugar In terms of pounds that nearly 2,000,000 tons of sugar seems to have a stupefying effect on the mind. There are more than 400,000 acres of land under cultivation in sugar on the island of Java and the average yield per acre is four and one-half tons, which is a yield that is high above the average of sugar land.