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THE CUBA REVIEW 



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No. 902-L (Palabra de clave ZPUGJ) 



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CANE SUGAR IN THE POLAR REGIONS 



Sir Ernest Shackleton, who left London 

 on August 1st, for the Antartic regions, 

 where he will make new explorations, is a 

 gi-eat friend of cane sugar supplies for use 

 in the cold countries. 



At a dinner given by the West Indian 

 Committee in London recently, Sir Ernest 

 Shackleton took occasion to highly praise 

 cane sugar, which he said "is the only one 

 kind of sugar which the Polar explorer 

 should take." Continuing, he said: 



"I do not base this on my own judgment 

 at all, but went with the permission of the 

 War Office to the Royal Army Medical 

 College and saw Colonel Beveridge, the head, 

 and consulted him. He stated at once the 

 heat-forming values of the various sugars, 

 and that cane sugar has the highest heat- 

 forming value, without any water. To us 

 water is a waste material, for we always 

 have potential water at our feet. What I 

 try to get is the greatest weight and the 

 greatest amount of calories to the pound. 

 Our ration now, based on large experience, 

 consists chiefly of sugar. Our breakfast 

 ration, for instance, for each man, is 3 ounces 

 of lard, 3 ounces of sugar, half an ounce of 

 meat protein and half an ounce of wheat 

 protein. It is difficult to conceive of any 

 person enjoying this, but I think I would 

 rather be there, taking those rations, than at 

 this dinner to-night, and I am not disparaging 



the dinner at aU. I want to tell you one or 

 two things connected with sugar of which 

 you may not be cognisant. On some days 

 in the South in marching we covei'ed 21 miles 

 in 43^ days, and the temperature was just 

 as low as one ever wants it; we rested for 

 five minutes every three hours and ate two 

 lumps of sugar, and we could actually feel 

 the heat coursing through our veins thj-ough 

 the immediate effects of the sugar. The 

 big march that we have to do in the coming 

 expedition is roughly speaking the distance 

 from London to Constantinople, and we hope 

 to do it in about 130 days. I may mention 

 another advantage about sugar in the Ant- 

 arctic, and that is, that the atmosphere is 

 such that you can pack your lump sugar 

 or crystals into open receptacles without it 

 taking any moisture. Such things are ad- 

 vantages that seem very small when food 

 has not to be carefully guarded." 



NO LOUISIANA SUGAR AFTER FIVE YEARS 



Said F. C. Lowry, for the Federal Sugar 

 Refining Company recently, "Louisiana is 

 getting ready to go out of the sugar business. 

 In five years' time she will have stopped 

 growing sugar, and the State will be better 

 off in consequence, for the I'eason that she 

 will then begin to produce crops for which 

 she is well equipped by nature. In the past 

 she has been producing a tropical plant in a 



