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NEW BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC., RECEIVED 



A new work by 'Sir. Noel Deerr, sugar 

 technologist at the experiment station of 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 

 and author of "Sugar and the Sugar Cane,"' 

 entitled "Cane Sugar," a text-book on the 

 agriculture of the sugar cane, the manufac- 

 ture of cane sugar and the anah'sis of sugar 

 house products, together with a chapter on 

 the fermentation of molasses, has just been 

 published by Xorman Rodger, Altrincham, 

 England. 



The volume consists of 592 pages royal 

 octavo, with 22 plates (11 colored) and 240 

 other illustrations, and is the finest and 

 most up-to-date work on the cane sugar in- 

 dustry yet issued to the public. The price 

 is $5 net. 



The 600 pages that the book contains re- 

 quires time for digestion. From a cursory 

 examination its contents deserve the au- 

 thor's claim of forming a text-book of the 

 agriculture of the sugar cane, the manufac- 

 ture of cane sugar and the analysis of sugar 

 house products. The whole has formed a 

 valuable addition for the library of sugar 

 planters and experts. Written by one who 

 has had exhaustive experience alike in the 

 laboratory, the factory and among the 

 plants themselves, in the fields or at the 

 experimental stations, Air. Deerr's book 

 cannot fail to be of the utmost importance 

 to sugar planters in these days of intensive 

 and economical culti\ation. 



The Permanent F.xhibition ( ommittee of 

 British Guiana have issued a series of leaf- 

 lets, designed to attract general attention 

 to their country and its possibilities. Three 

 of these attractive little jniblications have 

 been received by The Ci.'b.\ Revtew and 

 have for their subject the rice, sugar, l)alata 

 and rubber industries. These were followed 

 by two more little brochures on cocoanut 

 and lime and timber industries. 



From the Beet Sugar Gazette Company, 

 publishers, Chicago, has been received an 

 interesting little book of 94 pages, contain- 

 ing a treatise on the sugar beet and beet 

 sugar. It was written by Samuel J. Jodidi, 

 Ph. D. This treatise was run seriallj' in 

 the American Sugar Industry of Chicago. 

 It contains a vast amount of valuable in- 

 formation relative to beet sugar, with sug- 

 gestions as to how to increase the beet ton- 

 nage in the field, the sugar extraction in the 

 factory, and how to raise the capacity of a 

 sugar mill. 



Bolctiii Oficia! de la Sccrelaria dc Agri- 

 cidtura, Coiiicrcia y Trabajo for March, 

 l9ll, containing special articles, statistics, 

 tables of temperature, charts of rainfall, etc. 



Bolefin Oficial de la Secrctaria Sanidad 

 y Belief iceiicia for February, 191]. It con- 

 tains manjr special contributions, printed in 

 English, French and Spanish on various dis- 

 eases, besides valuable statistics on health 

 conditions. 



Drought Injures Tobacco 



Tobacco grown in the open fields only 

 gives a small percentage of light-colored 

 leaves when it rains sufficiently, but during 

 a prolonged drought the tobacco plant will 

 onh' produce darker shades of leaf. 

 Through the artificial shade process of 

 covering the fields with cheese-cloth or 

 palm leaves it has been possible to satisfy 

 the . raze for light-colored wrappers to a 

 considerable extent, but because of the cost 

 of the poles, wire, cloth and palm leaves, 

 is a most expensive method, and only the 

 large planters can stand this extra expense, 

 as besides the above they have to have a 

 pumping engine, coal or wood, and enough 

 iron pipes to irrigate the plants during the 

 drj^ season. And furthermore the quality 

 of the shade-grown leaf is inferior to that 

 grown in the open. 



Th'^ general opinion is that, e\en if it 

 should rain now during the balance of this 

 month, it will be too late and cannot increase 

 the quantity of tobacco to be raised this year 

 in the Vuelta Abajo, Semi Vuelta, Rartido 

 and Remedios. This state of aff"airs is 

 most unfortunate for all parties that make 

 a livelihood from the planting and handling 



of tobacco, and we have to be prepared to 

 see the smallest crop of tobacco which has 

 been produced since the Spanish-American 

 War. The emigration of Vegueros to the 

 eastern provinces continues, and this must 

 influence the raising of tobacco for the year 

 1912. Eventually the non-cultivation of a 

 large amount of tobacco lands will give the 

 soil a chance to recuperate its former fer- 

 tility, so the present state of misery may 

 later be considered as a blessing to a new 

 set of Vegueros, who will succeed the pres- 

 ent unfortunate toilers on the unproductive 

 lands. When the government shall have 

 executed the irrigation of the Vuelta Abajo 

 through the system of canalization already 

 l^lanned, then there will be hope for land- 

 owners and tenants, but years will be re- 

 nuired to accomplish this. — I nifed States 

 Tobaeco Journal. 



The wrought iron mains for the con- 

 struction of the aqueduct at Bejucal, Ha- 

 vana Province, have been received, and 

 work will be started in the very near fu- 

 ture. 



