Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0244Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is a group of people in standing in a crop field in the process of planting sugar cane, one person is riding a donkey, mountains are visiable in the background. Above the image "T254 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V21868 Planting the Sugar Cane in a Large Hacienda near Lima, Peru, So. Am." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted. Underwood & Underwood Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
333-(V21868)
PLANTING SUGAR CANE NEAR LIMA
Lat. 12(Degrees) S.; Long. 77(Degrees W.
After the fields are plowed and harrowed, the next task on the sugar hacienda (pronuncation) is to set out the cane. The ground is furrowed out in straight rows about four feet apart. The sprouts are placed along the ridges between the furrows. Then the flood gates at the other end of the field are opened and the water comes rushing down. The sprouts are then planted in the thin mud. Of course these fields must be irrigated daily as it never rains and sugar cane requires plenty of water. From each joint new plants will soon spring up. It will not be necessary to replant this field for many years. Some fields have produced good cane without being replanted for as many as fifty years. Of course this is much longer than the old plants are usually allowed to stand.
This view shows beautifuly the great level extent of farming land in the Peruvian Valley. In the background are ranges of the Andes Mountains the soure of the water supply.
This plantation is near Lima, a city that is often called the Paris of South America. it is about the size of Atlanta, Georgia. Its seaport is Callao (pronunciation), 7 miles distant.
Perus is a land of varied climates and a strange mixture of the old and the new. On the mountain peaks of the Andes lies the ever-lasting snow. In the valleys grow the plants of the tropics. It has been the seat of civilizaitons since nobody knows when. We know that the Incas had great cities when the Spaniards first came. Recently cities of a civilizaiton older than that of the Incas have been unearthed. The Chief wealth of the country is in its rich mines. The word Peru meant to the Europeans for a long time the land of silver. We now know that its copper is more valuable than its silver.
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