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THE CUBA RE V I E W 



pelled to continue operating the property or else to lose considerable sums. For this 

 reason, aside from some of those mills which this year have not already commenced 

 to operate, we believe that the future will not see the cessation of work by any con- 

 siderable number of our mills. The production of many of them will doubtless diminish, 

 due to inability to obtain at the prices that will be current for sugar a sufficient cane 

 supply to allow them to operate to capacity. In connection with the above must be 

 considered the fact that Cuba is intrinsically and by nature a sugar producing country. 

 We believe that nowhere else in the world are all conditions quite as favorable for 

 large, heavy total production at a low cost as are those of Cuba. The newer lands of 

 Oriente, Camagiiey and eastern Santa Clara Province will produce very cheap cane for 

 a great many years. Many of the older areas in Matanzas, Havana and Pinar del Rio 

 Provinces, especially in Matanzas, will continue producing cane at only a reasonable 

 cost for a long time. In Pinar del Rio Province cane producing will disappear from a 

 considerable area now occupied by that crop, and in Havana Province conditions are 

 favorable to the lessening of the area planted to sugar cane and to the extension of the 

 area planted to other crops, so that in all probability in these two provinces quite a con- 

 siderable percentage of decrease will be observed in their sugar production by next crop, 

 but we believe that the total sugar production of Cuba will be maintained for a good 

 many years at a quantity very much above the largest amount produced in any year 

 previous to 1914, and that our producers will be able to compete so successfully with 

 other countries, that the production of the latter will diminish, leaving the proper 

 balance between total world supply and world demand. By the end of this season our 

 sugar industry should very closely have regained its normal condition, and the future 

 should look bright for all legitimate producers to make the legitimate profit to which 

 their efforts entitle them. 



Cuban Tobacco Industry 



The Union of Tobacco and Cigar Manu- 

 facturers presented to the first National 

 Congress of Economic Organizations a pro- 

 gram of measures which it considers im- 

 portant for the protection and development 

 of its industry. Among these are reduction 

 of taxes and railway rates, improvement 

 of the means of communication, decrease 

 of duties on necessary machinery, and 

 legislation favoring the importation of cot- 

 tonseed-oil cake for fertilizing tobacco 

 fields. The Union also asks for an em- 

 bargo on the importation of foreign to- 

 bacco. 



This work deals with the history and 

 general characteristics of the sugar cane 

 as regards growth, cultivation and chem- 

 ical composition. The methods of extrac- 

 tion of the sugar from the cane by mills 

 are fully described, as well as the chemical 

 and mechanical treatment of the juice and 

 the scientific control of the factory. The 

 question of steam generation is also gone 

 into in detail. The manufacture of by- 

 products of cane sugar (rum, industrial 

 alcohol and cattle food) is also fully de- 

 scribed. 



New Publication on Sugar 



"The Manufacture of Cane Sugar," by 

 Jones and Scard, published under the aus- 

 pices of the West India Committee, by 

 Duckworth & Co., London. Price 25/- 

 net. 



Santo Domingo Crop 



The present sugar crop of the Domin- 

 ican Republic undoubtedly will be the 

 largest on record. It should total at least 

 250,000 tons, as compared with 208,000 

 tons in 1920-21 and 202,000 tons in 

 1919-20. 



