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THE CUBA REVIEW 



last year, the month's business is by far 

 the smallest recorded in anj' October of 

 recent years. The figures for years since 

 1914 are as follows, in tons of 2,000 pounds: 



Year October Ten Months 



1921 19,332 412,324 



1920 9,526 435,183 



1919 59,099 623,534 



1918 40,053 138,746 



1917 56,618 474,244 



1916 51,986 746,071 



1915 107,128 376,833 



One of the causes responsible for the de- 

 cline in export business was the falling off 

 in demand from Great Britain, which took 

 only 3,460 tons in October, as compared 

 with 19,508 tons in September, relinquish- 

 ing the position as our principal customer 

 to France. Sales to other countries, 

 France excepted, were also generally 

 smaller in October than in September. 

 The detailed figures of exports for October 

 and for the year are as follows, in ordinary 

 tons: 



Exported to October Ten Months 



Great Britain 3,460 171,830 



France 4,395 47,441 



Greece 1,163 42,157 



Italy 391 24,586 



Spain & Canary Is. . . . 352 17,843 



Netherlands 34 10,640 



Turkey in Europe .... 168 9,462 



Gibraltar 204 7,462 



Xonvay 180 6,801 



.Jugoslavia .... 2,958 



Malta 516 2,308 



Azores & Portugal .... 145 1,846 



Germany 19 1,699 



Denmark 448 1,680 



Finland 1,336 



Rumania .... 885 



Russia in Europe 15 301 



Other Europe 1,440 



Canada 462 3,230 



Newfoundland 347 2,814 



Mexico 1,128 10,660 



Panama 63 902 



Cuba 60 2,613 



Santo Domingo 107 1,031 



Haiti 90 808 



British West Indies. . . 171 1,229 



Virgin Islands 38 599 



Other West Indies 21 299 



Bermuda 62 815 



Other No. America.. . . 7 215 



Argentina 2,605 12,890 



Uruguay 985 9,466 



Other So. America. ... 105 769 



Turkey in Asia .... 1,997 



Other Asia 78 578 



Philippine Is 85 911 



Morocco 980 1,904 



French Africa 

 British Africa . 

 Other Africa . , 

 Oceania 



124 



97 



212 



1,723 



564 



641 



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U. S. Beet Seed Crop 



The sugar beet seed crop of the United 

 States this year is placed at 3,575,000 

 pounds, or a little more than half the pro- 

 duction of last year and the year before, 

 by the latest figures of the United States 

 bureau of crop estimates. The area har- 

 vested this year was 3,666 acres, or less 

 than half that of 1920, and the average 

 yield was 975 pounds to the acre. Colo- 

 rado was the largest producer of seed, with 

 Idaho, California, Montana, and Utah fol- 

 lowing in the order named. 



Imports of sugar-beet seed into the 

 United States during the first nine months 

 of 1921 were 6,385,999 pounds, which is 

 likewise less than half the total for the 

 corresponding period of 1920, when 15,- 

 461,896 pounds were imported. The fig- 

 ures of acreage, domestic production and 

 imports of sugar beet seed for the past six 

 years are given by the bureau as follows: 



The Bulletin of the Pan-American Union 

 reports that some time ago the agricultural 

 experiment station in Cuba noticed that 

 the royai palms in the district near Caimite 

 de Guayabal were being attacked by a 

 small insect of the order of the Hemiptera, 

 which caused much damage to the leaves. 

 Specimens were collected and sent to the 

 Ignited States Department of Agriculture 

 for identification. The chief of the Bureau 

 of I{lntomology stated that the insect in 

 question belonged not only to the new 

 species, but to a new genus and subfamily. 

 It was named Xijlastodoris luteolus, Barber 

 (new genus and species of the Thaumasto- 

 cerinae). The experiment station will con- 

 tinue the detailed studv of this insect. 



