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SUGAR REVIEW 



Specially written for "The Cuba Review" by Willetl & Gray, New York. 



We wrote you last on June 30, 1919, since which date the number of centrals 

 grinding in Cuba has been reduced to twelve. The 183 centrals which have com- 

 pleted their crop to date outturned 24,063,S99 bags (3,472,076 Omsi, n-ainsl Messrs. 

 Guma-Mejer's January estimate of 24,116,000 bags. Total exports of t lie 1918-19 crop 

 to June 30 are as follows: U. S. Atlantic Ports 1,372,074 tons. New Orleans 226,075 

 tons, Galveston 27,592 tons, Savannah 47,197 tons, elsewhere in the United States 4,222 

 tons, Europe 433,352 tons, and Canada 12,151 tons, a total export of 2,122,663 tons. 



As regards the domestic cane crop in Louisiana, our New Orleans correspondent 

 informs us that weather recently has been hot and dry, permitting considerable work 

 in the fields. However, the very wet spring and early summer has had its effect on 

 the growing crop, and the outturn of sugar this year will hardly reach anything like 

 a normal crop, although it is likely that some recovery will be made from the estimate 

 of 140,000 tons, on account of the recent more favorable weather. 



Since we last wrote you we have issued our estimate of the domestic beet sugar 

 production at 800,000 tons for the 1919-20 season. While this estimate was very 

 conservative, based on the acreage planted this year, it is now evident that same will 

 be the maximum figure obtainable, the abandonment this year being larger than usual 

 on account of unfavorable conditions as regards weather, blight, etc. Of the 1918-19 

 crop 604,515 tons of sugar were distributed to June 30th out of the total crop of 

 674,892 tons. The following table gives the distribution in detail to that date, in bags : 



FROM FACTORIES IN 



To State of California 



Arizona 97,279 



Arkansas 96,526 



California 941,996 



Colorado 



Idaho 500 



Illinois 494,810 



Indiana 1,090 



Iowa 47,680 



Kansas 4,600 



Kentucky 



Michigan 870 



Minnesota 53, 270 



Missouri 58,561 



Montana 



Nebraska 13,400 



Nevada 1,217 



New Mexico.... 55.210 



New York 



North Dakota . . 5,250 



Ohio 



Oklahoma 44,520 



Oregon 10.235 



Pennsylvania 



South Dakota . . 660 



Tennessee 



Texas 58,330 



Utah 



Virginia 



