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FRENCH PRODUCTION 1918-19 

 Tlie output of French sugar factories 

 during the 1918-1'J campaign, from Sep- 

 tember 1, 1918, to February 28, 1919, is 

 given by the Journal dcs Fubricants de 

 Sucre as 109,323,978 kilograms, compared 

 with 199,053,3S7 kilograms for the pre- 

 ceding season. The total production dur- 

 ing the campaign just closed, which is 

 placed at 110,000 metric tons in terms of 

 refined, is approximately 90,000 tons less 

 than the crop of 1917-18. During the sea- 

 son 51 factories were in active operation, 

 as against 61 the previous year. 



Statistics of French imports and ex- 

 ports for the calendar year 1918 show 

 total imports in terms of refined, amount- 

 ing to 203,731 metric tons and exports 

 of 97,505 tons, leaving the net amount 

 imported for consumption within the coun- 

 try at 10G,22G tons. Assuming that 150,- 

 000 tons of beet sugar from the crops of 

 1917-18 and 1918-19 were available to the 

 domestic market the total consumption of 

 sugar in France during 191 8 would have 

 been slightly above 250,000 tons, or less 

 than 40 per cent, of the normal pre-war 

 consumption. 



Of the imports of raw sugar during 

 1918 the largest amount. 02/:00 tons, came 

 from Cuba; 38,000 tons from the Dutch 

 East Indies, and 13,000 tons from the 

 United States. The United States also 

 supplied 33.000 tons of refined during the 

 same period. The largest items of ex- 

 port were 33,000 tons to Morocco and 

 23,000 tons to Algeria. 



CENTRAL JATIBONICO 



Announcement has been made that Cen- 

 tral Jatibonico, in Camaguey, will be en- 

 tirely redesigned and rebuilt by its own- 

 ers, the Cuba Company, before the begin- 

 ning of another grinding season. A new 

 steel building will be erected, the evapor- 

 ating capacity will be increased, and 

 complete electrification carried out with 

 the exception of the mills. Among the 

 improvements planned are the adoption 

 of side dump cars for the delivery of 

 cane, abolishing the old sling hoist; the 

 installation of new double crushers in 



both tandems, ami of uew belt driven 

 centrifugals; the substitution of the spray 

 system for the old cooling tower, and the 

 erection of a concrete chimney. 



Three new pans have been purchased 

 from the Philadelphia Coppersmiths' Co. 

 through Lombard & Co.; Casey-Hedges 

 multitubular boilers will be installed; 

 the General Electric Co. will supply new 

 generating units and the Chicago P.ridge 

 & Iron Works new water tanks and tow- 

 ers. The structural steel will be fur- 

 nished by the American steel Co. of Cuba. 

 It is estimated that the changes will in- 

 crease Jatibonico's capacity by about 20 

 per cent. — Facts About Sur/ar. 



LOUISIANA'S SUGAR CROP 

 Production of cane sugar in Louisiana 

 in the last season was 501,800,000 pounds, 

 an increase of 74,600 pounds over the 

 previous year, it was announced by John 

 S. Dennee, statistician of the Department 

 of Agriculture. Cane crushed for sugar 

 amounted to 4,170,000 net tons. The 

 average yield of cane an acre was about 

 eighteen tons and the estimated area har- 

 vested 231,000 acres. About 20,000,000 

 gallons of black strap and 10,793,000 gal- 

 lons of cane syrup will be obtained from 

 the crop in addition to the sugar. 



SUGAR-BEET SEED FROM GERMANY 

 The War Trade Board announces (W. 

 T. B. R. 764) that applications for licenses 

 to import into the United States sugar- 

 beet seed from Germany, or which orig- 

 inated in Germany, will be considered. 

 Licenses covering such importations, how- 

 ever, will not be issued until the importer 

 in the United States has made effective 

 arrangements to make the purchase price 

 of such commodity available for the pur- 

 chase of foodstuffs for Germany by de- 

 positing said purchase price with the 

 American Relief Administration for remit- 

 tance through said administration to the 

 persons thereto entitled. The duplicate 

 receipt issued by the American Relief Ad- 

 ministration must be submitted to the 

 Bureau of Imports of the War Trade 

 Board when applications for licenses are 

 filed. 



