area was owned by white planters. In the average area of the sugar plantations there were also striking differences. The largest plantations were those rented by whites, and the next largest were owned by whites, while those occupied by the colored were relatively very small. Sugar mills and distilleries.-The cultivation of sugar cane and the production of sugar, molasses, and rum were, in Porto Rico, industries of far less relative importance than in Cuba. As has been shown, the

area under cultivation in cane was much less. The number of mills and distilleries is given by departments in the following table, together with their average capacity, that of sugar mills in arrobas (25 pounds each) of cane per day, and that of stills in gallons of rum per day.

Comparison of this table with the corresponding one for Cuba shows that the number of mills was greater in Porto Rico than in Cuba-345 to 207. Their collective capacity, however, was but little more than one-tenth as much, and their average capacity was little more than onefifteenth that of the Cuban centrals. The crushing of cane and manufacture of sugar and molasses were carried on in Porto Rico in a retail way in small mills. Their product is commonly coarse brown sugar and molasses.

With distilleries the case is the same. The number was nearly two and one-half times as great as in Cuba, but their capacity was little. more than one-eighth, and their average capacity per distillery only about one-twentieth.