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taining sugar. Various useful organic acids are made with the aid of that substance, 

 and in the course of the preparation of some of them gases possessing a high calorific 

 value (heating power) are produced; it is also employed in preparing such acids by- 

 fermentation : among them are butyric acid, yielding butyric ether which has the smell 

 of pineapples and is used largely in the perfumery trade and in making syrups. — 

 Agricultural News. 



Sugar Crop of 1910-11 



The official figures of the yields of sugar, molasses, aguadiente and alcohol from the 

 crop of 1910-11 have just been issued by the Cuban government's Statistical Department, 

 and are as follows : 



Provinces 



Cane Ground 

 Arrobas* 



Pinar del Rio 17,884,543 



Havana 114,165,534 



Matanzas 256,385,909 



Santa Clara 434,456,407 



Camaguey 85,943,459 



Oriente 270,122,729 



Sugar 

 Arrobas* 



2,021,208 

 12,681,013 

 28,105,314 

 49,427,156 

 10,040,735 

 31,336,646 



Molasses 

 Gallons 



840,124 



6,149,168 



12,594,570 



20,285,730 



6,189,533 



12,075,070 



Agardiente 

 Literf 



14,245 



125.90< 



1,583,396 



Alcohol 

 Literf 



498,686 

 737,616 

 296,695 



Total 1,178,959,581 133,612,072 



* Arroba : 

 t Liter = 



58,134,195 



= 25 lbs. 

 1.0567 United States quarts or 61.026 cubic inches. 



1,723,548 



1,532,997 



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