THE CUBA REVIEW 



39 



Java's increased production costs 



In a special paper from the pen of Mr. 

 Geerligs on the 1912 Java sugar crop, he 

 makes the important statement that the 

 cost of production in Java has recently 

 gone up and, whereas in Jaimary, 1911, he 

 fixed it at Ts dVjd, he has now to record a 

 rise in the figure to 8s 3d, or an increase of 

 yd. This increase is in the main due to 

 higher rents, higher wages and dearer ma- 

 terials, and Mr. Geerligs believes that it will 

 be permanent and that therefore the cost 

 price of Java sugar is not likely again to 

 fall perceptibly below the present figure of 

 8s 3d per cwt., which is for 96° polarization 

 sugar, packed in bags and delivered at the 

 scales in the buyer's godowns on the coast. 

 The cost of production apart, the chief in- 

 terest in this paper of Air. Geerligs is the 

 statement that Java is really dependent for 

 Iier successful output of sugar on the suc- 

 cess in cultivation of two seedling cane 

 varieties, and that should anything un- 

 toward befall these, the planters w'ould as 

 yet have no reserves to fall back upon to 

 keep the crop up to its present dimensions. 

 It would seem that the work of the Javanese 

 cane nurseries has not after all hitherto 

 been carried on on the most scientific lines, 

 if those -in charge of them are now threat- 

 ened with the prospect of having to begin 

 all over again in their work of establishing 

 suitable sugar cane standards. . 



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