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tons), chiefly from "Moron." 



The sugar made from the above mentioned 1S,111,758 arrohas (202,140 tons) of 

 cane delivered to outside plantations is not included in the report of the Company's 

 production of sugar. 



CANE GROUND 



The following talde gives a comparison of the cane ground at your mills during 

 the four years since the incorporation of j'our Company: 



1915-191G .S59,95o,T4(j arrohas or 4,017.363 tons 



1910-1917 393..5S4,0o8 " " 4,392,679 " 



1917-1918 409,900,529 " " 4,-574,782 " 



1918-1919 501,596,-555 " " 5,-598,176 " 



The above figures show an increase of 141,&40,809 arrohas (nearly 1,6(:m),000 tons) of 

 cane from 191-5-1910 to 1918-1919. This increase was divided by sections, as follows: 



Western estates 12,460,826 arrohas or 139,071 tons 



Eastern " 129,179,983 " " 1,441,741 " 



The above total increases in the cane supply of this Company exceed the total amount 

 of cane produced in the entire T'nited States for the coming crop. 



RATES PAID TO COLONOS- FOR THEIR CANE 



The average jiercentage of sugar per 100 of cane paid to the Colonos (tenant 

 farmers) for their cane continues to diminish as the cane supply in the Eastern 

 plantations increases. In order to show the percentages paid to the Colonos in each 

 section, the following figures for the last four crops are given : 



191.5-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 



Western estates 6.713% 6.849% 6.891% 6.901% 



Eastern " 5.079 -5.029 .5.115 5.130 



Averages 6.383% 6.337% 6.254% 6.168% 



SUCROSE IN THE CANE 



The avei'iige percentage of sucrose in the cane at the 17 plantations for the four 

 crops was as follows: 



1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 191S-1919 



13.87% 13.00% 13.31%. 13.02% 



The sucrose in the cane has not been high for the the last three crops. Such con- 

 tinuously low sucrose in the cane is most unusual. In Cuba it is rare indeed to have 

 low sucrose for so many consecutive years. 



The sucrose content depends much upon the temperature and seasonalile rains, 

 i>ut, above all, the cane needs cool and dry weather during the grinding season. 

 Weather conditions up to the present have been most satisfactory for the growing 

 crop. 



The highest percentage of sucrose this year was at "Perseverancia," 13.72%, and 

 the lowest at "Socorro," 12.0-52%. 



LOSSES IN MANUFACTURE 



The Losses in manufacturing, Avhich have been decreasing year by year, showed 

 a still further, though slight, improvement during the last campaign, as may be seen 

 by the following figures: 



1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 



3.07% 2.67% 2.-36% 2.-32% 



Your management has hoped to show a still greater improvement, Init it is dillicult tn 

 maintain a high state of efliciency of operations with labor troubles in the fields niid 

 sugar houses, and Avith railroad strikes. 



Whenever there is a railroad strike, the quantity of cut cane in the fields wailing 

 for transportation accumulates and there is a constant loss in sucrose content fro:ii 

 the time the cane is cut until it is finally milled. 



When strikes of cane cutters or other laborers occur, the mills cannot be supplied 



