34 THE CUBA REVIEW 



The price of Porto Rico sugars has now been fixed at 7.28c c. i. f., New York. 

 Some of these sugars, however, which were afloat had been originally contracted for 

 at 6.90c, the Duty Paid valuation of Cubas, subject to adjustment, but these sugars 

 were afterward arranged for at 7.28c. 



The contract with the Canada Food Board for the San Domingo crop has been 

 signed and the crop will be allocated among the Canadian refiners in accordance with 

 its terms. The price is to be V&c per pound below Cuba cost and freight price, which 

 at present equals 5.76c c. i. f., New York, with allowances up and down, the same as 

 those obtaining for Cubas. 



According to our latest advices from Louisiana the spell of cold weather has 

 brought with it a temporary respite from the almost unprecedented rains, which had 

 recently delayed grinding. Distribution of Plantation Granulated is still under re- 

 straint and factories' stocks are accumulating. Several Government contracts, how- 

 ever, have been received and these sales for shipment overseas will help the situation 

 to some extent. 



The domestic beet sugar crop has had a very favorable grinding season, as a 

 result of which an outturn exceeding our last estimate of 635,000 tons is anticipated. 

 A number of factories have now finished the campaign. 



The effect of the drought in Hawaii during the Spring and Summer of 1917 is 

 reflected in the results obtained from harvesting the crop, the total production for 

 the past season amounting to 515,035 long tons, as against 575,510 tons in the pre- 

 ceding crop. The large deficiency in the crop in the Island of Hawaii is particularly 

 noticeable, same being the smallest crop produced on that Island since 1910, while 

 Oahu produced the largest outturn in its history. Preliminary estimate of the new 

 crop indicates a yield of approximately 530,000 tons of sugar. There has been no 

 immigration to Hawaii during the past year, other than from the Philippines, and 

 this has been limited on account of the difficulties of transportation, with the result 

 that the needs of the plantations as regards labor have not been met, so that they 

 are now short many men of their normal requirements. 



We have recently experienced a shortage of refined sugar stocks in refiners 

 hands, owing to the slow arrival of raw supplies. It has been little felt, however, 

 as the trade throughout the country were well supplied, and the consequent demand 

 for sugars was very light. With the increasing supplies, however, the situation is 

 showing rapid improvement and our refiners will doubtless soon be in position to 

 take care of any increase in the demand, should same occur. While some of our 

 refiners are still closed, they are expected to be running again within a short time. 

 Quotation remains unchanged on the basis of 9c per pound f. o. b., for Fine Granu- 

 lated. 



New York, N. Y. 

 January 7th, 1919. 



method of killing weeds in Hawaii softer-tipped weeds, failing to penetrate 



An interesting method of killing weeds {t > are smothered. A similar practice has 



in sugar-cane fields in Hawaii, according been employed in England for making 



to the "Queensland Agricultural Jour- awns - 

 nal," consists in spreading over the fields, 



after the dormant canes have been Columbian workmen 



manured, strips of tarred or asphalted It has been announced that about five 



felt paper (weighing 9 lb. to the 100 thousand workmen from the Republic of 



square feet). The pointed shoots of the Columbia will soon arrive in Cuba to 



young cane grow through the paper work in sugar mills during the grinding 



which is weighted with stones, and the season now under way. 



