THE CUBA REVIEW 



31 



Florida Sugar Mill 



A recent issue of Facts About Sugar 

 reports that production of sugar began on 

 March 2d at the factory of the Florida 

 Sugar and Food Products Company, at 

 Canal Point, Palm Beach county, marking 

 the beginning of the manufacture of sugar 

 as a commercial product in the Florida 

 everglades. The mill commenced grinding 

 the last day of February. 



Tucker Brodreaux, an experienced sugar 

 man from Louisiana, is in charge of opera- 

 tions as mill superintendent. Irwin Brod- 

 reaux, his son, is the sugar boiler. W. P. 

 Jemigan is head chemist of the factory, 

 and B. W. Windham is in charge of the 

 fields as agricultural superintendent. 



Mr. Brodreaux expressed satisfaction to- 

 day with the results of the initial operations 

 and the quality of the juices obtained. 

 Mr. Windham reported that the cane was 

 weighing out sixty tons to the acre, after 

 discarding poor cane. 



The mill has a grinding capacity of 450 

 tons of cane per 24-hour day, but at 

 present is being operated only twelve hours 

 daily. The cane now being ground comes 

 from the company's own land at Canal 

 Point. 



tons in 1922 and 54,699 tons in 1921.— 

 (Figures from the Commercial Review, 

 Georgetown, British Guiana, December.) 



The World's Beet Crop 



The world production of sugar beets 

 reached a total of 34,775,100 short tons 

 in 1922, according to the Statist of Lon- 

 don. This figure represents a gain of 5.7 

 per cent over the 1921 production of 

 32,892,050 short tons, but both years fell 

 considerably below the world's average 

 production in normal years, which amounts 

 approximately to 55,000,000 short tons. 



British Guiana 



The exports of sugar from British 

 Guiana in 1922 amounted to 90,571 tons 

 as compared with 108,270 tons for 1921. 

 Practically all of this sugar went to the 

 United Kingdom and to British possessions, 

 in both years, but the increased proportion 

 sent to Canada in 1922, as shown by the 

 following figures, is noteworthy: To the 

 United Kingdom, 27,439 tons in 1922 and 

 52,975 tons in 1921; to Canada, 62,938 



Java Production 



The total production of Java sugar for 

 the years 1916 to 1922, together with the 

 yield of sugar per acre, as compiled by 

 the experimental station at Passoeroean, 

 Java, is shown to be as follows: 



The cost of sugar production in Java 

 for the 24 leading companies varied be- 

 tween $3.51 and $7.91 per picul of 136 

 pounds (2.58 and 5.82 cents per pound) 

 in 1921, as compared with a range of $2 

 to $3.14 per picul (1.47 to 2.31 cents per 

 pound) in 1914, according to a report 

 from U. S. Consul General George E. An- 

 derson at Rotterdam. The report gives 

 the cost and the production for each com- 

 pany in 1914 and 1921, and also the divi- 

 dends distributed on the common stock. 



Brazil 



The final estimate for the sugar crop 

 which terminated on August 31, 1922, was 

 420,000 tons for all Brazil, says Consul 

 C. R. Cameron, in a report to the U. S. 

 Department of Commerce. Pemambuco's 

 share of this crop is about 4,400,000 sacks 

 of 60 kilos each (264,000 tons), or 63 

 per cent of the total Brazilian crop. Add- 

 ing to this the 1,000,000 sacks, or 60,000 

 tons estimated for Alagoas, these two 

 states produce 77 per cent of the sugar 

 crop of Brazil. The present indications 

 are that the 1922-23 sugar crop will be 

 even less than has been anticipated, owing 

 to small plantings and the late and exces- 

 sive rains. 



