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THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 
SUGAR INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL 
Every State in Brazil produces sugar 
eane. Reliable statistics, however, are 
not obtainable, as most of the production 
is for local consumption. Moderate esti- 
mates give the approximate number of 
bags of sugar produced as follows in 1911, 
1914 and 1917: 1911-12, 5,000,000 bags of 
60 kilos (132 pounds each bag) ; 1914-15, 
5,196,000 bags; 1917-18, 7,350,000 bags. 
The States of Pernambuco, Sao Paulo, 
Sergipe and Bahia lead in the production 
of sugar in the order named. 
In 1917 Brazil had registered 215 sugar 
factories, classified as follows: 105 fac- 
tories grinding less than 100 tons of cane 
in 12 hours; 77 grinding from 101 to 200 
tons; 17 grinding from 201 to 400 tons; 
3 grinding over 401 tons; 15 for which no 
details of production were given. 
The cane is all crushed in the country. 
In many places in the interior rudi- 
mentary appliances, made of hardwood, 
are still used to crush the cane. These 
establishments, producing dark-brown 
cake sugar (“rapadura’), consumed by 
the laborers on the farm, do not figure 
in any statistics, and the total production 
eannot be estimated. It is large, however. 
Small American crushers with three verti- 
eal steel cylinders are often used on farms 
and in small factories, driven by human 
or animal power. Some factories have up- 
to-date machinery; only one factory so 
far, however, has introduced the diffusion 
process in Brazil—the Uzina Esther, in 
Sao Paulo, with a daily capacity of 125 
tons of cane. 
Most of the production is used for con- 
sumption in Brazil; only the surplus is 
exported. Exports in the years 1914 to 
1919, inclusive, were in the following 
quantities (one metric ton equals 2,204.6 
pounds) : 
1914 1915 
Metric Metric 
Kinds Tons TONS 
Wise SUS AT fei. es ee oes 1,365 2,833 
MEMerara g.a.2-2.s2->2.. 20,806 22/064 
Brown sugar 9,619 34,178 
SOU COS .. 31,860 
1916 1917 
Metric Metric 
Kinds Tons Tons 
\WANIEGS “USE Goa c ame e omen 31,201 98,179 
DEMeGATA Sa ics eee: 12,974 10,541 
IRON OL SIDESME Gg oananebeace 9,650 22,789 
“BOLAIEM eaeRanicn ese 53,829 131,509 
1918 1919 
Metric Metric 
Kinds Tons Tons 
\A ON eS eee cg Gp oot 94,720 () 
Demerara 9 4. nts 8,984. G>) 
11,930 G3) 
SAD rae cee 115,624 69,429 
(*) Classification not yet available. 
Sugar cane in Brazil is not an annual 
plant; it remains on the fields for several 
years. Seasons of planting and crushing 
are governed by weather conditions, wet 
or dry, varying greatly according to the 
districts. As a rule sugar cane is planted 
during the rainy season and crushed when 
the dry season sets in. 
differ widely in the 
Brazil. 
These seasons 
various parts of 
NEW SUGAR COMPANY 
Announcement of the organization of 
one more new sugar enterprise, the Colo- 
radas Cane Corporation, has been made. 
The company has a nominal capitalization 
of $5,000,000, of which $80,000 has been 
subscribed. Its purposes are the produc- 
tion of cane and the operation of mills on 
the estates of Majibacoa and Coloradas, 
in the Holguin district of Oriente. Its 
promoters have also formed a company 
with a nominal capitalization of $500,000 
to do a banking business under the name 
of the Bank of Oriente. 
SANTA CECILIA SUGAR CORPORATION 
On July 22, Mr. M. H. Lewis resigned 
as president of the Santa Cecilia Sugar 
Corporation and Mr. C. B. Goodrich, pre- 
viously vice-president and general mana- 
ger, was elected to succeed him. Mr. 
Robert L. Dean was elected vice-president 
and treasurer. Mr. R. H. Caplan was 
elected secretary to succeed Mr. Dean. 
