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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1950 The Famous Five 4 -- THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ee es et Cc Are Sixteen The Dionne quintuplets have good cause for reflecti a mirror (bottom) while celebrating their 16th birthday recently at their Corbeil, Ontario, Canada, home. Just 10 years ago, at the age of six, they were looking into the same glass--and time has At top (left to right) the faces seen are those of Cecile, Marie, Annette, Emilie and Yvonne. Below (leftt to right) as they look today, are Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Marie and Cecile, on as they gaze into made some changes. --Central Press Canadian. W. INDIES BEST AREA FOR SUGAR "fhe suitability of the West Indies a8 a sugar growing. area has been knéwn since the days of Columbus, writes 'the West Indies correspon * dent of The London Times, Con- sumption of sugar in Europe then was outstripping supplies from the eastern markets, and one of the Jong-term results of his discoveries was to make sugar available for the European population at large: with th@eoming. of "the Industrial revo- fution. The present superiority of sugar as yielding the biggest income per acre of any other crop in the Carib- bean is best expressed in a com- parison worked but in Puerto Rico. Comparative Yields _ There it is estimated that one acre of processed sugar can in 1947 bought the equivalent of 22 acres of corn, 12 of rice and nine of beans. That is a formidable calculation to set against the need of 'diversifying West Indian agricultural produc- tion, a need nevertheless imposed by world ecoriomics, but the pros- pects of world supply and demand, and by comparisons of - cost and price. The basis of sugar's superiority as a crop is that it is peculiarly suited to the West Indian soil which it tends to nourish and not to exhaust. The loose leaves that grow round its stem fertilize the ground and help to bind it against erosion. A sturdy plant, it is dam- aged but hot flattened by hurri- canes, and so far no insect has succeeded in destroying it. There is no other crop in the West In- dies posskssing these properties in like measure. : The results are visible as one flies in to Barbados, an island as big as the Isle of "Wight stacked shore to shore with sugar, In Trinidad blue mountains rise 45 .- miles 'apart to enclose -a. plain of| per, solid sugar and from the heights aboye -Monymusk the Jamaican sugar belt stretches as far as the + eye ean reach between hill and Harvest Season The sugar harvest lasts some five months of the year and is at its height in April. The cutting is done with machetes, the all-pur- pose weapon of the Caribbean. From the fields the bundles of cut cane are carried in carts to load- ing points on the light railways which run like arterjes through the estates. Here the can is weighed and checked, for pay- ment is by the task. Here, too, the independent smallholders bring their cane and sell it by weight at government-controlled prices, 4xcept in British Guiana, where most transport is by water, the cane s then taken direct to factory by + rail. The actual process of milling can se seen at its simplest in the small mills, some West Indians still keep in their back garden. Here a plod- ding. donkey rotates a. pole while his owner thrusts the cane in be- tween two grinders, The juice runs out into a stone cauldron where it is' boiled and clarified with lime. All the latest big factories, with thelr endless lines of trucks pour- ng conveyor-fed cane into steam- driven knives and rollers, with their cxystalizers, condensers, evapora- tors and subsiders, are but an elaboration of this process. Rum and Gin The first stage is the separation of the sugar from the molasses from which rum is made, and also commercial alcohol. Today, much of the gin being drunk in England comes from this source. The sugar then is light brown, and in that form. it is 'shipped to. Britain, either «to-be sold as such or refined into - White sugar. Nearly all sugar-con. 1 i No Gas Ration England's minister of fuel power, Philip Noel Baker, is shown tearing after i --Central Press Canadian. and up a two-gallon ration » gasoline rationing in England was discontinued. This happy news for English motorists followed discus- siong between England and the U.S. government and oil companies, of how the dollar cost of imported oil might be reduced and how additional gasoline available that all supplies might thus be to the United Kingdom. suming countries put so heavy a tariff on the import of white sugar that refining is not carried out in the West Indies, except in a small way in Jamaica for home consump- tion, Apart from the reaping and mill- ing, there is work to be done on the fields that are being prepared for replanting, and after the new cane has begun to grow, there is lighter work, such as weeding, suit- able for the wives and families of the cutters. Sugar is not replanted annually, but left to "rattoon," that is to sprout again for recutting, for three to six years. After first plant« ing, cane takes between 1 to 20 months t@ mature. That is a far quicker fifst yield than any tree crop; butieven so it means that crop plans at least enenie, carried 0 and fife, watch bi accidents, stanily 8 bugs 0 labor GSP Most SU is estate farmed on by resi tions, Of tates W m ottam, g | Dan year P¥ there munis porters counts] | people thapon® Ss ss granted Tumbis "88° incres® Boar & in a" rr NEX If m Re ta bu act #5 di inst which spraying is tervene in a rates boost Interim boost amounting have to be formulated fo years ahead. The chief I sugar are "frog-hop- down wind with D.D.T., against. which constant to be kept. Apart from sugar estates are con- e mercy of local "fire- malicious firing during tes is not unknown, ar. in the West Indies own, that is to say, plantations owned either proprietors, corpora- sentees. About these es- still lingers a feudal at- E PROSPEROUS May 31--(CP) -- Arch- jandre Vachon of Ottawa t returned from a Holy nage to Rome and said g in Italy that com- bn the wane. 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