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niaxiimiii) price allowed them In selling to the domestic trade. 



Exports of sugar from Java during August amounted to (.■'.,<*><» tons to Europe, 

 with 165,000 tons to Far Eastern countries, a total Cor the tb of 208,000 tons. 



Philippine Island shipments during Augusl were onlj 7,000 tons to Japan and 

 China, with do shipments to America. 



The 1918-19 sugar season In San i> Ingo is no« closed with ;i production of 



166,680 tons of sugar, against 14:;.»:;<> tons in the preceding year. 'This outpul is 

 below iiif estimate made al the beginning oi the year, the reduction being attributed t«. 

 the early beginning of the rainy season, which compelled several estates to close down 

 with considerable ripe cane still standing in the fields. The weather was persistently 

 wet throughoul May and June, the mosl important grinding months. The outlooh al 

 the present time for L919-20 is for an outturn of aboul 200,000 tons of sugar. 



The crop In the Virgin islands is also finished with an outturn of 9,000 t"iis of 

 sugar, or rather an excess of early estimates, caused by the very favorable weather 

 conditions during the growing season. The outlook for the new crop Is very promis- 

 ing and the estimate at this writing is placed at 12,000 tons. 



New York, September 30, 1919. 



P. g. in further reference to new crop Cuba sugars besides sales of December 



shipment at 7c f. 0. b. Cuba, sales are also reported of 1st and 2nd half of January 

 at 7c f. o. b. Cuba. The market conditions for new crop Cuban sugars continue firm, 

 with offerings of January at 7c and February-March at 6%c f. o. b. Cuba. 



ENLARGEMENT OF PUNTA ALEGRE MILL nexf season. Kecent purchases of valu- 

 able cane lands have been made by the 



Officials of the Punta Alegre Sugar Com- company and ils program also culls for 



pany have announced that because of the th(i opening ;m ,i cane cultivation of new 



highly successful earnings which are to ;nv;|s ainong ils large holdings. 

 he credited to the Punta Alegre mill at 



San Juan. Camagiiey Province, for the CENTRAL CHAPARRA 

 1918-19 season, the conipauv has decided 



, . ., , ;.,. ,,,. ,,'U ,,<->!■ eent- A radio telegraph station and an office 

 lo increase its capacitj i»\ no poi cent. 



The present daily grinding capacity of building have been erected on the grounds 

 this mill is 3,000 tons of ,-ane per 21 of the Chaparra sugar factory, Chaparra. 

 hours. For 1920 it will have a daily ca- 

 pacity of 6,000 tons. U. S. BEET SUGAR CROP, 1919-20 



Plans for carrying on this important The United states Department of Agri- 

 expansion have been made and the work culture, in its September crop report, es- 

 of carrying out the development is to he timated the domestic beet sugar produc- 

 pushed by the company during the next tion of the 1919-20 season at the high tig 

 four months: This is the most extensive ure f 953,500 ordinary tons. This is 

 expansion project among the Cuban mills nearly 100,000 tons more than the esti- 

 that has so far been reported. mates made in unofficial quarters. 



The entire engineering direction of the The department's figures are based on 

 new work is in the hands of the West In- an expected crop of 7,265,000 tons of 

 dia Sugar Finance Corporation, formerly heets from 792,000 acres. 

 the West India .Management and Consulta- 

 tion Company. Inc., and a contract to fur- CONTRACT PRICES OF SUGAR BEETS, 

 nish and erect the new machinery has 1919 

 been let t<» the Bancroft-Thrall Construe- With few exceptions the contract pria 

 tion Company. to he paid to growers for sugar heets this 



In addition to enlarging its null capacity year is $10 a ton. not counting premiums 



the Punta Alegre Sugar Company will . to be paid at the end of the factory season 



greatly extend its cane acreage during the and contingent upon the price of sugar. 



