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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



"Near 

 1894. . 

 189.") . . 

 1896. . 

 1S97. . 

 1S9S. . 

 1S99.. 

 1900. . 

 1901.. 

 1902. . 

 190:i . . 

 1904. . 

 19(t.-). . 

 r.)Of). . 

 1907. . 

 190.S. . 

 1909. . 



Cuba 



l,i:?7,0t)7 



944,40,3 



210,297 



240,S14 



292,JG3 



343,794 



326,145 



651,430 



893,954 



997,154 



1,289,.J06 



1,223,241 



1,346,446 



1,516,240 



1,035,341 



1,625,168 



Other 

 Europe Countries 



Sources of Sugar Supply 



The following table shows to what ex- 

 tent the United States have drawn on the 

 principal sources of foreign sugar for the 

 past 16 vears (tons of 2.000 ll^s. — 907 ki- 

 los) : 



Philip- 

 pines 



26,973 



42,779 



63,507 



18,537 



30,604 



25.038 

 5,706 

 5,712 

 2,720 



32,674 



24,518 



51,143 



13,142 



11,985 



51,284 



54,249 



150,094 



99.750 

 523,225 

 757.S80 

 236.340 

 296,453 

 532,453 

 299,850 

 149,364 



15,177 

 11. 5,639 



27,114 

 187,362 



13.881 



174,535 



1,.561 



Journal des Fabricaiits de Sucre 

 (Paris). 



727.253 



657,289 



1,158,393 



1,033,272 



1,1.54,120 



1,534,586 



1,014.207 



899,114 



870,796 



619,431 



639,182 



567,167 



389,882 



394,004 



598,190 



227,464 



The Santa Cecilia Report 



The report of the Santa Cecilia Sugar 

 Company, Guantanamo, Oriente Province, 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, 

 shows that the season's crop produced 

 operating profits of $224,677 above all 

 charges antl expenses, which compares 

 with $175,357 in 1909 and $147,490 in 190S. 

 The sugar output in bags of 300 pounds 

 for these years was 69,042 in 1910, 60,532 

 in 1909 and 49,816 in 1908. 



A higher labor wage increased field and 

 factory costs. For the current year capital 

 expenditures for betterments and exten- 

 sions will approximate $s5,000 and for re- 

 pairs and replacements $40,000. 



To Discuss Abrogation 



A communication to the Louisiana Sugar 

 Planters' Association from Mr. I) D Col- 

 cock, secretary of the Sugar Exchan-c 



AGUA CORRIENTE PARA FINCAS 



(Bombcar .Aguas con su Misma Fuerza) 

 No 



relative to the advisability of taking steps 

 to abrogate the Cuban treaty of 1903, was 

 taken up at a meeting of the planters' asso- 

 ciation on October 13th, but it was voted 

 to defer action on the matter until the No- 

 vember meeting, when a full membership 

 will be asked to take part in the discus- 

 sion. — Xcw Orleans (La.) Item. 



Paper from !Megass 



The Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, 

 Vol. VI I L contains an abstract of a paper 

 read by Professor P. Carmody, director of 

 agriculture, Trinidad, at the recent Inter- 

 national Congress of Tropical Agriculture 

 and Colonial Development, at Brussels, on 

 the manufacture of paper from megass as 

 follows ■ 



"Attention has been directed at various 

 times to the possibility of utilizing 

 'megass' or sugar-cane refuse, for paper- 

 making, and as long ago as 1839 a process 

 for the purpose was patented. Since that 

 time little advance has been made, and the 

 megass is generally useful as fuel for 

 heating the boilers in the sugar factory. 

 The question was again brought into 

 prominen-e when the late Mr. Bert de 

 Lamarre, of the Tacarigua factory. Trini- 

 dad, announced that he was able to convert 

 megass into paper of fairly good market- 

 able quality. It was found that the crude- 

 crushed fibre was too bulky to permit of its 

 exportation being profitable, and it was 

 therefore decided either to convert the 

 material into 'half-stuff' before shipment, 

 or to manufacture paper from it locally. 



"A modern, well-equipped paper-making 

 machine has therefore been imported and 

 erected, and has hithert-. been used for 

 carrying out experimental trials. These have 

 shown that paper of better quality can be 

 obtained by blending the megass with other 

 fibrous materials, such as banana leaves and 

 stems, rnaize residues, Agave, Hibiscus, 

 bamboo, 'bois de canon' (Cecropia pel fata), 

 sunflower, native grasses and other prod- 

 ucts. The best results have been obtained 

 from a blend of megass, bamboo and Para 

 grass." — Agricultural Nczi's. 



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