THE CUBA REVIEW 



31 



Cutter and Harvester 



Uperaliuii. 



to operate and handle and it is to be lioped that the inventor will be successful in 

 getting the machine to do the work claimed for it imder any and all conditions. 



A number of cane cutters have previously been tried in Cuba and were found to 

 be impracticable. 



SPANISH SUGAR CROP IN 1920 

 Prospects for the sugar crop for 1920 

 in Spain are reported to be excellent. The 

 country is now passing through a period 

 of great scarcity, with sugar selling at 

 retail for 3.20 pesetas per kilo in Madrid, 

 and it is only with great difficulty that 

 supplies can be secured from abroad to 

 relieve the shortage in national produc- 

 tion. 



Due to the prevailing prices it appears 

 that plantings for the coming year will 

 be of unusual size, and the sugar planters 

 are looking forward to a highly prosper- 

 ous season. 



The Sociedad General Azucarera and 

 independent sugar companies have been 

 contracting for beets at high rates, and 

 it is expected the coming sugar crop will 

 exceed any which has been harvested in 

 the Kingdom. Plantings in Aragon and 

 Rioja have reached an imusual extension, 

 and it is estimated that the Sociedad Gen- 

 eral Azucarera will be able to grind 



enough beet to produce 90,000 tons of 

 sugar. This, for Spain, is an extraordi- 

 nary amount since the entire 1919-20 crop 

 hardly reached 8-5,000 tons. 



Present indications point to a surplus 

 of Spanish sugar for export in 1920-21, 

 and if the high prices which now obtain 

 throughout the world continue, this will 

 be an unusually prosperous year for the 

 sugar industry of Spain. 



REPORT ON SUGAR SITITATION 

 President Menocal has commissioned 

 Senor Annibal J. de M^sa to make a re- 

 port to the Cuban Government on the 

 sugar situation in Europe and its effect 

 on the world market. 



A similar commission was entrusted to 

 Mr. Mesa last year and was brilliantly 

 executed, the result of Mr. Mesa's investi- 

 gations appearing in a pamphlet in 

 which was set forth the state of the sugar 

 industry in all the sugar producing coun- 

 tries of the world. 



