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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Peru 281 1,434 



Brazil 224 1,171 



Venezuela .... 1,005 



Dutch Guiana 772 772 



Colombia.. 399 399 



Santo Domingo 374 463 



Hongkong 115 1,371 



Java 981 981 



Other countries .... 603 



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Total 3,620 51,972 



The value of sugar imported during August is returned as $23,062,301, an average 

 of 5.09 cents a pound as compared with an average value of 5.66 cents for sugar 

 imported in July. The total value of sugar imports for the eight months ending with 

 August, this year, was $297,141,140, compared with a value of $193,765,569 for imports 

 during the corresponding period last year. 



Receipts by Ports 



The distribution of sugars imported among ports of arrival was as follows for 

 August and the eight months ending August 31, in ordinary tons: 



Eight 



August Months 



New York 93,494 1,141,189 



Philadelphia • 64,652 616,978 



Boston 22,969 197,212 



Baltimore 11,638 129,714 



Savannah 4,365 125,651 



New Orleans 13,342 428,677 



Galveston 14,664 93,911 



San Francisco 476 98,105 



Other ports 975 25,115 



Hawaii 1 13 



Total 226,576 2,856,565 



Beet Sugar Industry Filmed 



"Beets from Seed to Sugar Bowl" is the 

 title of a motion picture prepared by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 to illustrate the processes of sugar beet 

 growing and beet sugar production. The 

 film, which is announced as ready for dis- 

 tribution, tells the story of the industry 

 from the planting of the beet seed through 

 the various cultural and harvesting pro- 

 cesses and shows the steps by which the 

 beets are turned into sugar in the sugar 

 factories. The picture was made in a mid- 

 western beet growing district and in a 

 modem beet sugar factory by the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry and the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry. 



The department recently issued a sim- 

 ilar picture showing the processes of sugar 

 cane culture and cane sugar manufacture 

 in Louisiana. — Facts About Sugar. 



Central Miranda 



It. is reported that Central Miranda, in 

 central Oriente, will be one of the earliest 

 to commence the 1923-24 crop campaign, 

 being scheduled to begin grinding Decem- 

 ber 1. The cane at Miranda this year is 

 said to be among the best in Cuba, as 

 there was plenty of rain at the proper time. 

 The coming crop is placed, on what is said 

 to be a conservative estimate, at 350,000 

 bags. Last year Miranda made 265,848 

 bags, although the advance estimate of its 

 output was 450,000 bags. 



Sugar Imports 



Imports of sugar into the United States 

 from January 1 to June 30 were 2,655,- 

 694 tons, against 3,214,611 tons in the same 

 time last year. Exports during the same 

 period were 185,489 tons, against 673,024 

 tons in the first six months of 1922. 



