Author: Karen C. Thurland Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452052263 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, a Caribbean island, had a sugar industry that spanned from its earliest settlement years until the middle of the twentieth century. Sugar was the economic determinant that influenced the social and cultural fiber of the island. The Sugar Industry on St. Croix, a historical reader, concentrates primarily on the twentieth century when the sugar industry was on its decline and eventually terminated. The book has an historical overview that describes the economics of sugar cultivation, attempts at diversification of crops, the Virgin Islands Company, homesteading, the Virgin Islands Corporation, and the termination of the sugar industry on the island. The book also contains first-hand accounts from people who participated in the industry and recall their experiences in the planting and harvesting of sugar cane, working in the sugar factory or for the Virgin Islands Corporation, a view of the role of women in the industry, and the challenges of life in an agricultural community. The photographs provide a view of agricultural life, the gauge railways, homesteaders, and also of the people involved in sugar production.
Author: Longfield Smith Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781391281513 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 34
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Excerpt from Sugar Cane in St. Croix Sugar cane has been grown for many years in St. Croix, where sugar making has ranked as a leading commercial industry From 1898 the area devoted to the cultivation of cane gradually diminished, and during the 10 years immediately preceding the World War very little planting of cane was done. However, the growing of cane was stimulated in St. Croix, as elsewhere, by economic conditions brought about by the war, and the area devoted to it at present covers approximately acres. The average amount of sugar exported yearly since 1898 has been tons from an area of about acres. This was at the rate of ton of sugar exported for each acre under culti vation. If the average amount of 270 tons locally consumed is added to this sum the yield per acre is shown to be actually 0. 666 ton. 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.
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