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was 2,181,000 tons. The opening of the Panama Canal is expeoted to enable Cuban sugars 

 to comx)ete with those of Java in the Asiatic markets. Already a, .^00 tons have ])een sent to 

 Japan. The Cuba plantations are also considering the advisability of following the example 

 of Java in taking up the manufacture of white plantation sugar in order to become independent 

 of the American trust and the sugar refineries of the United States." 



The following paragraph shows the importance of the United States as a sugar market- 



"The United States in 1913 consumed 3,800,000 tons of sugar. In the fiscal year 1912-13 

 it imported 1,942,000 tons of cane sugar from foreign countries and 82,000 tons of beet sugar. 

 Of the cane sugar, 1,924,000 tons came from Culja, and of the remainder 6,000 tons came from 

 Peru, 5,000 tons from the Dutch East Indies, 3,000 tons from Dutcli Guiana, and 1,000 tons 

 from Santo Domingo. There were also 80,000 tons of beet sugar imported, mainly from Ger- 

 many. In addition, there were 484,000 tons of sugar imported from Hawaii, 340,000 tons from 

 Porto Rico, and 90,000 from the Philippines, so that the total imports of sugar into the United 

 States were 2,936,000 tons, valued at $136,689,000. From this it will be seen thait the United 

 States is the most important market for sugar, and it has become a serious question where its 

 future supply is to come from." 



The following paragraph, dealing with the probal>le effect of the European war on the 

 industry, concludes the article: 



"The war has already laid waste the beet regions of Belgium and over half those of France, 

 so that 80,000 tons out of 230,000 tons from Belgium and 500,000 tons out of a possible 

 900,000 tons from France will be all that can be expected. The beet-sugar region of Austria- 

 Hungary has not been as yet affected. After August 1 the beet crop is generally left to itself 

 until October 1 , so that the absence of labor in August and September is not a serious matter 

 to either Russia or Germany. Both these countries have taken a large number of prisoners, 

 whom they have put to work in the fields, so that the crop for this year will probably be as large 

 as that of 1913. If the war continues a year or more, as is generally expected, the next year's 

 crop will be considerably less than that of this year. Then the great demand that there will 

 be for sugar from other sources than Continental Europe, which now supplies half of the sugar 

 of the world, will encourage a greater development of the sugar industry in this country." 



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