34 THECUBAREVIEW 



SUMMARY OF ACTIVE PLANTATIONS BY PROVINCES 



OUTPUT FIGURED IN BAGS 



Provinces European Ownership American Ownership Cuban Ownership Totals 



1916 Est. 1917 1916 Est. 1917 1916 Est. 1917 1916 Est. 1917 



Havana 1,623,026 1,63.5,000 475,638 475,000 467,611 .570,000 2,566,275 2,680,000 



PinardelRio 23,500 30,000 114,324 128,000 163,7.59 215,000 301,583' 373,000 



Matanzas 1,170,917 1,618,000 2,-504,282 2,763,000 766,989 84.5,000 4,442,188 5,226,000 



Santa Clara 1,867,906 2,227,000 2,046,815 2,200,000 2,601,282 2,9.53,000 6,516,003 7,380,000 



Camaguey 1,947,688 2,295,000 394,317 870,000 2,341,905 3,165,000 



Orientl.'. 678,410 79.5,000 3,526,763 4,658,000 588,316 910,000 4,793,489 6,363,000 



Totals 5,363,759 6,305,000 10,615,510 12,519,000 4,982,174 6,363,000 20,961,443 25,187,000 



Total e-^timate 1917 crop modified, as per note page 16, about 19,250,000 bags. 

 N.ATIOMALITY OF OWNERS 



Havana 



PinardelRio.... 



Matanzas 



Santa Clara 



Camaguey 



Oriente 



Total 1917. 

 Total 1916. 



THE WORLD'S SUGAR PRODUCTION 



The sugar prod iction of the world has increased amazingly in the last half century, bi.t the 

 production has been no more amazing than the mcrease in consumption. 



In 1870 the production of cane sugar was 1,850,000 tons and of beet 900,000— a total of 

 2,750,000 tons. 



In 1914 it was 9,8()5,016 tons of cane and 8,908,470 tons of beet— a total of 18,773,486 

 tons. 



The crop of 1916-17 is estnnated at 11,394,510 tons of cane and 5,828,000 tons of beet— 

 or a total of 17,222,510 tons. 



Such redviction as there has been m beet production has been mostly in Europe, where 

 the Central nations depend on beet sugar. 



Such increase in cane production as are shown must l>e credited mostly to Latin- 

 America — principally Cuba. 



Sugar, like cotton, seems to find more employment the more there is of it. Less than a 

 century ago it was practically a luxury. Now it is recognized as one of the great sta Tes of 

 food. The world would have a sad time without it. Man has discovered that in sugar there are 

 energy, heat and power-producing qualities superior to those in many other forms of food. Ac- 

 ceptance of this fact lead Great Britain early in the war to hasten to safeguard a supply of sugar. 

 Contracts were entered into for large quantities of Cuban cane. These contracts were dupli- 

 cated in 1916 and will be renewed in 1917, "unless the war ends before the nation's sugar needs 

 become urgent. The British have drawn freely on Trinidad, Barbadoes, Jamaica and other 

 British West Indian Isles and also upon British India (the crop of which approximates 2,500,000 

 tons), but still Cireat Britain ha.? to buy from .\mer'c i. The total exports in 1916 to Europe 

 were 694,000 tons. 



It is manifest that man's appetite for sugar grows with the years. In 1965 the per capita 

 consumption of sugar in the United States was 18.17 lbs. per annum. In 1915 it was 86.00. 

 We may think the Am.erican consumption great, but it is below that of Australia, which in 1915 

 was 100 lbs. per capita per annum. 



