28 



THE CUBA RE V I E W 



The value for the j'ear 1920 represents approximately the capital invested in the 

 sugar industrj" of Cuba as it exists today, but this value, on account of the deflation 

 which has occurred, has been reduced to 8950,000,000, approximatelv, that is, bv about 

 $700,000,000. 



Comparison of the Exports axd Imports of Cuba with Those of Other Principal 

 Countries (Data from Table in "Statistical Abstract of the United States" 



for 1920, Page 838) 



Countrj- 



Year 



Total Exports 



Millions of 

 Dollars 



Per cent 

 to U. S. 



Total Imports 



Millions of 

 Dollars 



Per cent 

 from U. S. 



United States 



United Kingdom. . 



Germany ^ 



France 



Canada 



Japan 



Italy 



Argentine 



Belgium 



China 



Cuba 2 



British India 



Dutch East Indies . 



Switzerland 



Brazil 



Netherlands 



Australia ^ 



1920 

 1920 



19i9 



1920 



1919 



1919 



1919 



1920 



1919 



1919-20 



1919 



1918 



1919 



1919 



1919 



1919 



8,080 

 6,500 



1,682 



1,239 



1.029 



1,001 



995 



903 



857 



855 



776 



691 



637 



633 



567 



496 



5.8 



' 6.9 



36.6 



40.5 



87 



18.3 



3.5 



16.0 



75.1 



13.9 



6.4 



5.5 



41.6 



4.1 



8.4 



5,278 

 9,425 



5,747 



1.065 



1,075 



3.188 



633 



612 



879 



434 



548 



236 



682 



380 



1,136 



462 



29.1 



27.3 

 75.3 

 35.5 

 44.8 

 35.5 



8.5 

 16.7 

 75.33 



9.6 

 10.6 

 22.3 

 47.9 

 19.2 

 28.7 



1 No figures given. 



2 Cuban Government official figures, exclusive of currency. 



3 Percentage from United States and Porto Rico- 

 * Commonwealth of Australia. 



Standard Work on Sugar 



"Cane Sugar." — A Text book on the 

 Agriculture of the Sugar Cane, the JSIanu- 

 facture of Cane Sugar, and the Analj^sis of 

 Sugar House Products, by Noel Deerr. 

 Second (revised and enlarged) edition, pul> 

 lished by Norman Rodger, London, 1921. 



Mr. Noel Deerr's "Cane Sugar," which 

 since its publication in 1911 has been a 

 standard work on its subject, now appears, 

 in a second, re"\dsed and re'OTitten edition. 



The new edition contains 644 pages and 

 29 plates. 



The thoroughness with which the book 

 covers its field is indicated hy the list of 

 chapter titles which follows: The Cane; 

 Composition of the Sugar Cane; Range 

 and Climate; Variation in the Cane and 

 Cane Varieties ; Soils of the Cane Growing 

 Regions; Manuring of the Cane; Irriga- 

 tion of the Cane; Husbandry of the Cane; 



Pests and Diseases of the Cane; Harvest- 

 ing of the Cane; Extraction of the Juice 

 by ]\Iills; The Diffusion Process; Action 

 of Heat, Alkahes and Acids on Sugars and 

 Cane Juices; Defecation of Cane Juice; 

 Carbonation Process; Sulphitation; Fil- 

 tration; Evaporation; Sugar Boiling and 

 Crj'stallization-in-Motion ; Separation of 

 the Crj'stals; Raw Sugar; Molasses; Ba- 

 gasse as Fuel, and the Steam Generating 

 Plant of the Cane Sugar Factory; The 

 Polarimeter; Determmation of Cane Sugar 

 and Assaj' of Sugar House Products: De- 

 termination of Reducing Sugars; Control 

 of the Factor}" Fermentation, with Special 

 Reference to the Sugar House. 



Electric -Light Bulbs 



In accordance with a presidential decree, 

 a factory for the making of electric-light 

 bulbs will be installed in Havana. 



