THE CUBA REVIEW 23 
Your Corporation followed a conservative policy in the selling of its own sugars. 
That portion of the crop belonging to the colonos (tenant farmers) was treated as 
entirely apart, your Corporation selling it as fast as acquired under its colono con- 
tracts, seeking to avoid either loss or gain therefrom. 
The Corporation’s own sugars, aS well as those acquired from the colonos, were 
sold prior to the recent rapid market decline and have been delivered and paid for. 
It follows, therefore, that this Corporation was not adversely affected by the decline 
nor is it adversely affected by the generally unsatisfactory financial situation arising 
therefrom which prevails at present in the Island of Cuba. 
CANE GROUND 
As already stated above, cane estimates for the 1919-1920 crop were not realized 
because of the drought. 
The following table gives comparison of cane ground at your mills during the 
last crop: 
Western estates ................ 256,341,250 arrobas (2,860,951 tons) 
Eastern CS ae areata et 186,678,568 “ (2,083,466 ‘“ ) 
RO Hales are accuses a rep re retecet teva tae 443,019,818 arrobas (4,944,417 tons) 
The above figures are about 20% under the early estimate. 
The cane sold to outsiders this year was 2,590,357 arrobas (28,910 tons) in the 
Western estates and 8,818,853 arrobas (98,425 tons) in the Eastern estates, both much 
smaller quantities than during the 1918-1919 crop. 
RATES PAID TO COLONOS FOR THEIR CANE 
The following table shows the average percentage of sugar per 100 of cane paid 
to the colonos during the past five years: : 
1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 
Western estates.......... 6.713% 6.849% 6.891% 6.901% 6.902% 
Hastern SR ier daaire toalee 5.079 5.029 5.115 5.130 5.153 
NVOEASCh tala Gialiacieis iss 6.383% 6.587% 6.254% 6.168% 6.124% 
The average percentage paid to the colonos will diminish still more from now 
on as your Corporation has acquired one additional plantation in the Hast and has 
increased the capacity of its other Hastern mills. 
SUCROSE IN THE CANE 
The following table shows the average percentage of sucrose at the plantations of 
your Corporation during the five crops: 
1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 
13.87% 13.00% 13.31% 13.02% 12.95% 
By the above table it is seen that the sucrose content has not been high for the 
last four years; such a continuously low percentage of sucrose in the cane is most 
unusual. 
LOSSES IN MANUFACTURING 
The losses in manufacturing at your plantations during the last five years have 
been as follows: 
1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 
3.07% 2.67% 2.36% 2.32% 2.37% 
Under present Jabor conditions it is difficult to maintain the highest efficiency 
_methods at sugar plantations, where such efficiency depends greatly upon the regularity 
with which the «ane is delivered to the mill, for such regularity requires uniformity 
of railroad operations, and this, of course, has not been possible under present labor 
conditions. 
YIELD OF 96° CENTRIFUGALS 
The yield of the five crops in 96° centrifugals has been as follows: 
1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 
11.25% 10.76% 11.41% 11.15% 11.02% 
