THE CUBA REVIEW 



The World's Cane Sugar Crop 



Estimates of the cane sugar crop of the 

 world for 1910-11, with comparisons with 

 the previous season's output, have been pre- 

 pared by United States Consul-General 

 Henry W. Diederich, at Antwerp. He finds 

 that European statisticians estimate the pro- 

 duction of beet sugar in the United States 

 at 435,000 tons and for the world at 

 7,900,299 tons. This with the 8,519,000 tons 

 of cane sugar will make a total production 

 of 16,419,299 tons. 



Figuring the average daily consumption 

 at 42,000 tons, there will be a surplus on 

 September 1st next of 2,500,000 tons. The 

 table of the total cane-sugar output fol- 

 lows : 



1909-10 1910-11 



Country Tons Tons 



Louisiana 330,000 300.000 



Porto Rico 275,000 300,000 



Hawaii 475,000 475,000 



Cuba 1,820,000 1,850,000 



Trinidad 40,000 45,000 



Barbados 36,000 35,000 



Jamaica 7,000 12,000 



Antigua, St. Kitts 25,000 22,000 



Martinique 40,000 40,000 



Guadeloupe 43,000 40,000 



St. Croix 13,000 12,000 



Haiti, Santo Domingo . . 71,000 90,000 



Lesser Antilles 45,000 45,000 



Mexico 125,000 135,000 



Central America 50,000 50,000 



Demerara 103,000 100,000 



Surinam 12,000 11,000 



Venezuela 3,000 3,000 



Peru 130,000 150,000 



Argentina 130,000 140,000 



Brazil 260,000 310,000 



East Indies 2,194,000 2,150,000 



Java 1,334,000 1,250,000 



Philippines 130,000 150,000 



Formosa 140,000 160,000 



Queensland 134,000 170,000 



New South Wales 15,000 15,000 



Fiji Islands 70,000 65,000 



Egypt 46,000 45,000 



Natal 63,000 80,000 



Mauritius 231,000 200,000 



Reunion 39,000 45,000 



Spain 29,000 24,000 



Total 8,458,000 8,519,000 



Statistics of the production of sugar of 

 the 1909-10 crop shows that the United 

 States continues to be the largest buyer of 

 Cuba's product. Of the 1,804,349 tons pro- 

 duced in Cuba the United States took 

 1,606,032 tons; Canada imported 7,714 tons, 

 and England bought the balance of 119,418 

 tons. The local consumption is estimated 

 at 71,185 tons. 



The United Kingdom's imports of cane 

 sugar from Cuba for the ten months end- 

 ing with October aggregated 21,150 cwts. 

 in 1909 and 1,926,654 cwts. in 1910. The 

 value of these importations were £9,689 in 

 1909 and £1,371,633 in 1910. — International 

 Sugar Journal (Manchester). 



The Prospective Sugar Crop 



Practically the same report as to the 

 condition of sugar cane is given through- 

 out Cuba. There has been insufficient 

 rainfall, which has retarded the growth 

 of the young cane and has lessened the 

 promise of the older plantings, thus in- 

 dicating a yield which will fall considerably 

 below that of last year. Furthermore, in 

 the districts which have suffered by the 

 hurricane damage in October, there is a 

 still greater reduction of the volume 

 promised. 



As a consequence of these conditions, 

 which now appear well supported by all 

 evidences, it is thought that the production 

 of sugar in Cuba during the season now 

 on will fall off 15 to 20 per cent from the 

 great total of about 1,800,000 tons in 

 1909-10. 



However, it must be understood that un- 

 der present-day circumstances there can be 

 little value in advance estimates of a Cu- 

 ban sugar crop, since with modern meth- 

 ods of transportation of the cane there is 

 no longer the old limitation of the season 

 imposed by the normal weather of the late 

 grinding season. In the day of the ex- 

 clusive use of bull carts and the cart road, 

 quickly put out of use by rains, there was 

 some certainty to the period of the grind- 

 ing season. But although such carts and 

 roads still largely exist in Cuba, they are 

 not the controlling influence upon large and 

 modern estates. The railroad and the 

 modern road, rendering accessible nearly 



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