contained not less than 45.4 per cent of all the cultivated area owned by whites.

The farms rented by whites were smaller than those owned, 48 per cent of the area being comprised in farms of less than 1 caballeria in area and 52 per cent in those of more than 1 caballeria. Farms owned by the colored were still smaller, those under 1 caballeria comprising 71.3 per cent of the entire area, while those above 1 caballeria comprised only 28.7 per cent. The farms occupied by colored renters were still smaller. Those under one-fourth of a caballeria comprised only 41.1 per cent of the entire area, and those under 1 caballeria comprised 80.9 per cent, or more than four-fifths of the entire area.

Products.-The returns of farm products were obtained through the enumerators only in terms of area cultivated in the various crops. No attempt was made to obtain the amounts or values. The following table shows the areas, expressed in cordels, of which there are 324 in a caballeria, or approximately 10 to an acre, which was planted in each of the principal crops, together with the percentage of the cultivated area in each crop:

The table shows that very nearly one-half of the cultivated area of Cuba was planted in sugar cane; that the next crop of importance, in which 11.3 per cent of the cultivated area was planted, was sweetpotatoes, while tobacco, for which crop the island is quite as celebrated as for sugar cane, occupied only 9.3 per cent of the cultivated. area, being third in importance as measured in area cultivated. Bananas and Indian corn occupied nearly as much ground. Coffee, at one time a product of great importance in Cuba, occupied only 1.6 per cent of the cultivated area, and most other crops were of even less importance.

The following table shows, by percentages, the distribution of the area cultivated in each crop by the tenure of the occupant and his race, the occupants being classified as white owners, white renters, colored

owners, and colored renters, and others, and the figures being percentages of the entire area devoted to each crop:

It will be recalled that the cultivated area was distributed as follows,

It will be seen, on examination of the above table, that in the case of tobacco, sugar, Irish potatoes, onions, pineapples, and oranges, the proportion of land occupied by whites was in excess of their proportion of the whole cultivated area, and that in the case of the other crops this proportion was less; in other words, the crops above enumerated were produced by white men in greater proportion than by colored, while in the case of the other crops the situation was reversed. This is particularly the case with sugar, of which more than nine-tenths of the crop was produced by white men, and only a trifling proportion by colored.

Turning now to owners versus renters, as concerned with different products, it is seen that sugar, cocoanuts, coffee, and cocoa were raised upon owned land in greater proportion than the average of the cultivated area, while in the case of the other crops the situation is reversed. It will be noted that the crops which were cultivated mainly upon owned estates are those of a permanent character, as distinguished from annual crops.