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THE CUBA REVIEW 



PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION 

 The United States has started the year 

 1919 with a per capita sugar consumption 

 averaging three-quarters of a pound per 

 month more for the first three months of 

 the year than for the corresponding period 

 in 1918, according to the figures contained 

 in the first quarterly report issued by 

 the United States Sugar Equalization 

 Board. Per capita consumption during 

 January, February and March of this 

 year, calculated on a basis of a popula- 

 tion of 105,000,000, was 20.28 pounds, as 

 against 18 pounds for the first quarter of 

 last year. 



The actual consumption for the quarter, 

 reduced to a refined basis, was 1,065,040 

 ordinary tons (950,929 long tons), as 

 compared with 945,646 ordinary tons 

 (844,327 long tons) for the first quarter 

 of 1918. The increase, therefore, amount- 

 ed to 119,394 tons, or 12.6 per cent. This 

 is a larger consumption than was reported 

 for any quarter of last year except the 

 second. 



The report shows a sugar situation in 

 the United States during the first part 

 of 1919 easier in every respect than that 

 of a year ago. Not only were receipts 

 of raws and refiners' operations in larger 

 volume than for the corresponding period 

 last year, but stocks of sugar in the coun- 

 try, both at the beginning and the end 

 of the quarter, approached more nearly 

 to a normal level. Stocks at the end of 

 the quarter were more than double those 

 at the end of March, 1918. Sales of beet 

 sugar and Louisiana cane sugar were also 

 in much larger volume than for the first 

 three months of last year, while sugar ex- 

 ports reached the highest total recorded 

 for the first quarter of any year except 

 1916. 



Special interest from a trade viewpoint 

 attaches to the figures given in the report 

 for refiners' stocks of refined sugar. These 

 are reported as totalling, at the begin- 

 ning of the year, 53,465 ordinary tons, 

 against 35.219 tons at the beginning of 

 1918. At the end of the quarter, on March 

 31st, they had increased to 174,796 tons, 

 as compared with 63,321 tons on March 

 31st, last yenr, the increase during the 



quarter amounting to 121,331 tons, or 227 

 per cent. 



Deliveries from refineries for the quar- 

 ter were 795,807 tons, against 729,607 tons 

 in 1918; beet sugar sales were 236,808 

 tons, against 192,248; and sales of Louis- 

 iana sugar to direct consumption were 

 notably heavy, amounting to 132,342 tons, 

 against 5,975 in 1918. The amount of 

 foreign raw and washed sugars passing 

 into direct consumption, on the other 

 hand, was smaller than in the correspond- 

 ing quarter last year, being 7,603 tons, 

 against 17,816; consumption of Hawaiian 

 refined was also less, 4,262 tons, against 

 10,309. 



ALLIED CHEMISTS MEET 

 An inter-allied conference of chemists, 

 including representatives from the prin- 

 cipal nations associated in the war, is to 

 be held in London during the month of 

 July. The conference is due to the ini- 

 tiative of the Society of Industrial Chem- 

 istry of France, and will include repre- 

 sentatives of other prominent French as- 

 sociations, such as the Chemical Society 

 of France (the oldest chemical society 

 in the country), the Association of Sugar 

 Chemists, the Society of Physical Chem- 

 istry, the Society of Biological Chemistry, 

 the Society of Chemical Experts, and the 

 Association of Chemists of the Textile 

 Industry. 



SUGAR FOR DENMARK 

 Announcement was made on May 22nd 

 by the War Trade Board, Washington, 

 D. C, that Guild numbers and Import 

 numbers are no longer required for the 

 export of sugar to Denmark. However, 

 application for export license should be 

 made to the War Trade Board as usual. 



