Wal ja GU iss al Jie J ITB iy 33 
The Sugar Industry 
World’s Record Production of a Sugar 
Mill 
The greatest amount of sugar ever pro- 
duced by any sugar factory in the world 
in a single season was turned out by Central 
Delicias, in Cuba, which closed with 768,- 
378 bags, or 109,768 tons, of raw sugar to 
its credit. 
To convert this quantity of raw sugar 
into refined would keep the largest sugar 
refinery in the United States, the Brooklyn 
refinery of The American Sugar Refining 
Company, busy for more than 57 days. 
The operating season of Delicias this 
year, January 21st to about September 
10th, was longer than the average working 
period of a Cuban mill, which is from the 
first of February to the first of June. 
This is not the first time Delicias has 
broken the world’s record for raw sugar 
production. Its own output two years 
ago, in the 1918-19 season, 712,733 bags 
of sugar, was the record up to this time. 
Report from Cuban Legation in Paris 
In a recent issue of Facts About Sugar, 
mention is made of a report received from 
the Cuban legation at Paris. This report 
deals in considerable detail with the sugar 
situation in Europe, and submits a plan for 
disposing of a part of Cuba’s present sur- 
plus. The report is the work of Cuba’s 
commercial attaché at the legation, who 
has been at pains to obtain from sources 
intimately informed as to the situation the 
most accurate information to be had. 
The conclusions arrived at are that the 
sugar crop of France will be some 300,000 
tons, leaving a deficit between production 
and consumption of 400,000 to 500,000 
tons. France, it is stated, is at present 
Importing sugar from Czecho-Slovakia and 
Belgium, in addition to the cargoes afloat 
from Cuba. 
England, the report calculates, will re- 
quire about 600,000 tons, though she has 
already acquired considerable quantities of 
Java sugars and is buying refined sugar in 
the United States. 
Germany has planted an area about 25 
per cent. larger than that of last year, but 
conditions do not indicate an abundant 
yield. Russia is said to be completely 
without sugar, the few factories remaining 
being closed. She can pay for sugar pur- 
chased only with wheat and oil. The 
latter, however, is in demand and would 
find a ready market. 
Summing up, the report finds that 
Europe is without doubt facing a very 
large deficit in its sugar supply, which will 
’ have to be filled from the various colonial 
possessions, from Java, by the importation 
of refined sugar from the United States, 
and from Cuba. Java sugar, it is inci- 
dentally stated, is preferred in Europe to 
that from Cuba, the refining of which pre- 
sents some difficulties. 
Calculating the surplus in Cuba as of 
December Ist at 1,500,000 tons, the opinion 
is expressed that Europe, including Russia, 
can take a large part of this amount. 
The plan submitted in the report is that 
the Cuban Government purchase a large 
part (at least 500,000 tons) of the calcu- 
lated surplus by an issue of 7 per cent. 
bonds, to be sold at 95. The sugar would 
then be shipped to European distributing 
points, such as London, Havre and Ham- 
burg, where it would either be sold in the 
raw state or arrangements made to have it 
refined for sale as the market permits, in 
competition with European sugars and 
those of other countries. 
The point is emphasized that such sale 
should be effected, if possible, before the 
beginning of the coming crop. 
Selling and handling operations, it is 
proposed, could be carried out by a com- 
mission appointed by the government and 
vested with full power, utilizing the estab- 
lished European trade channels. Russia is 
suggested as an especially favorable field 
for such transactions, the sugar sold there 
to be paid for in oil. Any loss which might 
result from the carrying out of such a plan 
could be regained, it is suggested, through 
a tax levied upon the sugar industry in 
Cuba. 
