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show about 6d. decline from the normal prices, which perhaps represents the 

 effect of the new conditions when in full operation. 



The most interesting feature of the closing year is the practical results of the 

 business of the year 1907 in the United States. 



We are able to give the statistics as follows: 



The figures show the consumption of sugar 2,993,979 tons, an increase of 

 129,966 tons from 1906, or 4.538%. increase, against an increase of 231.797 tons, 

 or 8.806%, for the preceding year, against 4.479% average yearly increase for 

 26 years. 



Foreign sugar producing countries paying full duty rates contributed! 355,297 

 tons for the consumption; Cuba contributed 1,340,400 tons; Hawaiian Islands 

 418,102 tons; Porto Rico, 212,853 tons; Philippine Islands, 10,700; domestic cane, 

 264,968 tons; domestic beet, 375,410 tons; maple sugar, 10,000 tons, and molasses 

 6,249 tons. 



The total consumption of refined sugar in 1907 was 2,843,928 tons, of which 

 the American Sugar Refining Co. manufactured 1,401,061 tons, or 49.27%, against 

 51.03% in 1906, and 52.89% in 1905. 



The Independent refiners manufactured 1,064,827 tons, or 37.44%, against 

 37-38% in 1906 and 37.48% in 1905. 



The domestic beet sugar factories contributed 3715,358 tons, or 13.19%, against 

 10.87% in 1906 and 8.7970 in 1905. 



The Hawaiian oane factories contributed 1,674 tons, or .06%, against .61% in 

 1906 and .69% in 1905. 



Foreign refined supplied :i,oo8 tons, or .04%, against .11% in 1906 and .15% 

 in 1905. 



The average difference between raw and refined in 1907 was .893c. per lb., 

 against .829c. per lb. in 1906 and .978c. in 1905. 



For the year 1908 the average for raws under the oultook of supply and demand 

 should be higher than in 1907- 



Cane Reiising in Cuba. 



Mr. Francis B. Cruz, of the Cuban Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, says in a re- 

 cent pamphlet (Bulletin No. 5) issued by 

 the station, that the general belief in Cuba 

 is that only a limited number of varieties 

 give satisfactory. results. and that the Crystil- 

 lina is the best. He had little success with 

 imported kinds, but believes that with cul- 

 tivation such varieties may improve. 



Cuba's Coming Sugar Crop. 



The estimate of Joaquin Guma and Fed- 

 erico Myer of Havana of the 1907-8 sugar 

 crop is as follows : 



Centrales. Sacos. 



Habana 27 1,228,000 



Matanzas 22 927,000 



Cardenas 24 1,280,000 



Cienfuegos 27 1,328,000 



Sagua 20 440,000 



Caibarien 13 640,000 



Guantanamo 9 403,500 



Cuba 3 85,000 



Manzanillo 9 412,000 



Santa Cruz del S'ur i 85,000 



Nuevitas 2 I45>ooo 



Jucaro 2 160,000 



Gibara y Puerto Padre .... 5 770,000 



Zaza 2 93,000 



Trinidad i 45,ooo 



Central Jatibonico i 115,000 



Notes. 



"El Comercio" of Cienfuegos, says the 

 richness found' in the cane in Santa Clara 

 has precipitated the grinding season, and 

 many mills are cutting and many already 

 grinding. 



The "Fidencia" has already shipped 

 1,800 bags into Caibarien. 



"El Popular" of Cardenas reports the 

 arrival on January 6 of 32,504 bags. The 

 major part has been shipped, but the 

 rest is being stored for later deliveries. 



"Progreso," in the 'Cardenas district, is 

 repo.rted as not grinding this season, and 

 will send its cane to the Nueva Luisa 

 Central at Jovellanos. 



On January 6, seventy mills were grindi- 

 ing this year in the Cardenas district, 

 against 151 in 1907. 



Total crop, tons 



8,156,500 

 1,165,214 



Rufino Collado estimates the 1907-8 out- 

 put of' the plantations shipping through 

 Cienfuegos as 1,174,000 sacks, as against 

 1,731,010 last year. San Antonio and San 

 Francisco plantations, he says, will ship 

 through Sagua this year. 



EESIDENOB ON THE CAPE CRUZ CO. ESTATE. 



