THE CUBA R E V I E \V :;:; 



The average yield <•(" sugar per acre was 1.13 ions against 0.99 tons in the r.H7-is 

 season, 0.94 tons in 1916-17, and L.18 in 1916-17. 



The total Dumber of factories operated was 89, those at Lamar, Col., Las Animas, 

 Col., Waverly, Iowa, Fallon, Nevada, Missoula, .Mont., and Chino and Corcoran, Cal., 

 being the old factories that did not work. There wore also several new plants that 

 expected to work but were not completed in time owing to war conditions. 



The following table gives the 1918-19 and 1917-18 crops in comparison: 



1 II ills fill il p sjlg IPs 



, 1918-19 , , 1917-18 , 



Ohio 5 32,574 288,449 28,569 5 24,271 170,440 21,866 



Michigan 16 114,360 857,514 108,782 14 103,050 450,248 56,525 



Nebraska 4 42,74:j 404,009 50,002 4 51,328 396,427 48,115 



Colorado 14 125,880 1,217,340 171,320 15 101,071 1,562,568 209,177 



Utah 10 83,166 802,934 97,022 15 80,7<>7 634,493 76,033 



Idaho 7 32,306 291,944 39,897 7 38,030 255,751 34,263 



California 13 100,058 759,178 100,030 14 158,113 1,180,018 185,208 



Indiana , 



Illinois 



Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



Montana *14 01 ,047 407,570 < >2,! »T 1 t 1 7 67,51 »4 421 i,3< H i 51,680 



Kansas j 



Wyoming | 



Iowa I 



Washington ■' 



Total 89 593,640 5,089,643 674,S92 91 684,680 5,095,217 682,867 



* Includes four factories in Wisconsin, thru- in Wyoming, and seven States each operating a 

 single factory. 



f Includes four factories in Wisconsin, three in Wyoming, two in Montana and one each in 



Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. 



Regarding our domestic cane crop in Louisiana final figures of the 1918-19 out- 

 turn have not yet come to hand, and we are consequently maintaining our estimate 

 of about 240,000 tons. Over the new crop prospects there is not much enthusiasm, 

 and, according to our Louisiana friends, reports have been received of restricted 

 acreage in spring planting, due to bad seed cane. The area actually planted has 

 in some cases been only half of that which it was intended to plant, but in general 

 the reduction will probably not exceed 10 per cent. 



The harbor strike in the Port of New York, which has been in force since March, 

 has been settled since we last wrote you, and conditions in the harbor will he normal 

 as soon as the congestion caused by the strike has been cleaned up. Deliveries for 

 export recently have been large and during one week we have had steamers loading 

 or which have completed loading at New York and Philadelphia, the cargoes of 

 which have amounted to 25,000 to 30,000 tons. The export business passing with 

 various neutrals is only moderate, but negotiations are under way for an additional 

 100,000 tons to be manufactured by our refiners on a toll basis for the British 

 Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply. This will make the total export of refined 

 sugars to Great Britain, France and Italy about 500,000 tons, all of which is ex- 

 pected to be taken by the Royal Commission before the arrival of their Java pur- 

 chases in October. 



Our cable from the Philippine Islands reported shipments during March of 4,000 

 tons to U. S. Atlantic Ports, which sugars are not yet sold, and 10,000 tons to the 

 West Coast. We have reduced our estimate of the crop some 30 per cent., and it is 

 now probable that the outturn figure will be in the neighborhood of 100,000 tons. 



