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Porto Hico, Hawaii, Central America, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru. 

 Surinam, Brazil, Argentina, Louisiana, Egypt, Natal and 

 Mozambique. Of these it will be sufficient to note that the 

 three first-named are the only countries producing over a million 

 tons (more than 22 million centals) each and thai the United 

 Kingdom relies more or less on all of them for supplies. In 

 191 3, 8,279,242 centals of raw sugar were imported, of which 

 Cuba contributed 5,022,692 (crop* harvested Dec. -June, 1912-13 

 was 54,399,229 centals), Java,t 2216 (crop harvested Mav-Nov., 

 1912-13—29,818,432 centals), and British India* 86,246 centals 

 (crop harvested Dec. -May, 1912-13, 57,872,640 centals). 



The sugar prepared from the juice of the cane is an important 

 food throughout the world* The mola— es (the liquid n-maiuing 

 after separation of the sugar crystals) is also used for food 

 purposes, and mixed with other suitable substances — " Ground 

 nut shells," see " Soga meal" (Arachis kypoyaea), crushed 

 " sugar-cane " ( w Molascuit "), &c, it is a recognised cattle feed. 

 In Mauritius and most of the sugar producing countries, during 

 the harvesting season the tops of the cane are used for feeding 

 both horses and cows. 



A "Japanese Sugar Cane" or " Zwinga Sugar Cane," a 

 variety with numerous slender stems, has been introduced to the 

 Southern United States, grown for forage and extraction of 



syrup (Piper). 



1. 1888, "Seedlings of Sugar Cane at Barbados." pp. 294- 

 296; 1890, "The Sugar Production of the World," pp. 38-43; 

 1891, "Production of Seed and Seminal Variation in the Sugar- 

 Cane," pp. 10-24 and "Production of Cane-Su^ar in the Sugar- 

 Cane," pp. 35-41; 1894, " Seminal Variation in the Sugar-Cane," 

 pp. 84-86; " The Lahaina Sugar-Cane," pp. 418-419: "Improve- 

 ment of Sugar-Cane by Chemical Selection of Seed-Canes," pp. 

 86-96; 1899, ibid., pp. 45-46, "Sugar-Cane in the Sandwich 

 Islands," pp. 201-203, 1897, "West Indian Sugar Trade," pp. 

 92-96, "Grafting Sugar Cane," pp. 221-223; 1912, "Sugar," 



p. 168-169, pp. 179-180; 1914, " The Cultivation of the Sugar- 

 ane in Southern Spain/* pp. 147-150. 



2. June, 1898, " The Sugar Industry of Eussia," pp. 69-71: 

 June, 1901, " Molasses and Dairy Cows," pp. 45-47: Sept. 1903, 

 "Exemption of Duty of Molasses used for Food for Stock," p. 

 260; May, 1911, "Molasses and Sugar Foods for Live Stock." 

 pp. 97-106; March, 1916, "The Growing of Sugar," pp. 1210- 



1214. 



Sorghum bicolor, Moench, vai\ obovatum, Stapf. 



Annual, up to 14 ft. Cultivated in Angola, Mediterranean 

 region, Madeira, India, Australia, "West Indies and Brazil, more 

 or less for the grain. 



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* For figures as to Crops, see "The International Sugar Journal. March. 

 1915, p. 140, and for those relating to Imports, Ann. St. Tr. TJ.JL I. 1917. m 

 tated in introduction. 



f The figures for Java are smalt in proportion to the imports for 1912 and 

 1914, which for those years averaged more than those given above for Cuba. 



I The low import in proportion to the crop would indicate that the 

 greater p art \ s consumed locally. 



