THE CUBA REVIEW 



Philippine Sugar Crop 



Approximately a quarter of a million 

 metric tons of centrifugal sugar were pro- 

 duced in the Philippine Islands in the crop 

 season 1922-23 according to a statement 

 issued by George H. Fairchild, Secretary- 

 Treasurer of the Philippine Sugar Associa- 

 tion. The exact figures, as prepared by 

 H. Atherton Lee, director of experimental 

 activities for the association, are 3,577,775 

 piculs. or 226,298 tons. 



The statement is the first crop report 

 issued by the association. No attempt 

 was made to obtain figures of muscavado 

 production except in the province of Occi- 

 dental Xegros, where it amounted to 122.- 

 733 piculs, or 7,763 metric tons. It is 

 hoped, however, to obtain complete fig- 

 ures for this class of sugars also during the 

 coming crop. 



In addition to compiling the 1922-23 

 crop returns, the association has prepared 

 an estimate of centrifugal production for 

 1923-24. which it places at 4.996.226 piculs, 

 or 316,082 metric tons. On this basis the 

 maturing crop will be more than 33 per 

 cent larger than the last one. Favorable 

 weather in Xegros has been partly re- 

 sponsible for the expected increase, but 

 it also reflects the results of larger use of 

 fertilizers, earlier planting, better trans- 

 portation facilities and favorable prices, 

 the two latter factors having operated to 

 produce an increase in acreage. 



Conditions in Pampanga are less favor- 

 able than in Xegros, the continuous rains 

 in that province having set the crop back 

 and caused losses estimated variously by 

 planters at -K) to 75 per cent. With good 

 weather for the remainder of the season, 

 however, it is believed that these losses 

 may be partly recovered before December. 



The largest production by any one cen- 

 tral in 1922-23 was at La Carlota, which 

 manufactured 458,889 piculs. The total 

 production in the island of Xegros was 

 162.006 tons, equivalent to 71.6 per cent 

 of the total centrifugal output of the is- 

 lands. Luzon produced 59,482 tons, or 



26.3 per cent, while Mindoro produced 

 3.824 tons and Panay 986 tons. It is in- 

 teresting to note that the output of the so- 

 called Bank centrals was 84.780 tons, or 



37.4 per cent of the total production. 



The association's figures of centrifugal 

 production in 1922-23 and its estimate of 

 1923-24 outturn, by mills, are as follows, 

 in metric tons: 



State 



X'^U-U 1923-24 



Sugar Exports 



Reports from the Department of Com- 

 merce show that exports of refined sugar 

 from the United States for the fiscal year 

 1922-23, which ended June 30 last, as 

 749,855,325 pounds, or 334.757 long tons, 

 valued at 841.003.231. As compared with 

 the previous fiscal year, this was a decrease 

 of more than 1.250.000.000 pounds, 

 exports for that period having amounted to 

 2.002,038.450 pounds (893.767 long tons), 

 worth 877.447,331. While the falling off 

 in quantity was thus 62.5 per cent, the de- 

 crease in value was only about 51 per cent. 



As compared with the average for the 

 pre-war fiscal period 1910-14, last year 

 showed an increase of over 1,000 per cent, 

 exports for the four former years averag- 

 ing 70,976,908 pounds (31,567 tons) 

 annuallv. 



