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THE CUBA R E \' I E W 



sugar cane plant crop by applying the same 

 in drills 4 to 5 inches deep on each side 

 of the row, and about 6 inches from the 

 row, when the plants are from 12 to 18 

 inches high, and then covering the drills in. 

 For ratoons when the land is being 

 worked between the rows, as it always 

 should be, the manures can be dropped in 

 the furrow ploughed away from the stools, 

 and covered when ploughing back to the 

 row. This should be done immediately 

 after the application, so as to prevent loss. 

 Thorough cultivation is essential in order 

 to obtain the best results from fertilizing, 

 and subsoiling is especially valuable. The 

 growth and ploughing in of a leguminous 

 crop every time after stools are ploughed 

 out should be imperative. 



THE SOCORRO SUGAR ESTATE 



The Socorro Sugar Estate, situated in 

 the province of Matanzas, according to the 

 Union of Cardenas, is making improve- 

 ments which will amount to no less than 

 half a million dollars, having invested 

 some $350,000 in machinery alone. 



The Socorro Estate will not have two 

 "batteries," as they commonly express it, 

 but will consist of two mills combined 

 into one from which they expect a yield 

 during the next crop of some .300,000 bags. 



The lands comprised in this estate are 

 at the present time completely covered with 

 cane, the product of which, the owners 

 calculate, will not be less than three mil- 

 lion arrobas. In addition, there are 

 colonos who bring their cane to this mill, 

 and who may make the yield more than 

 ten million arrobas. It is the intention 

 of Mr. Pedro iVrenal, proprietor of the 

 Socorro Estate, not to lack for cane dur- 

 ing the crop season, and for that reason 

 he has advanced a sum of not less than 

 $200,000 to the colonos, to help them to 

 plant and harvest their crop. The mill's 

 output was 138,000 bags in 1907; 114,000 

 in 1908; 1.53,000 in 1909; 18.5,972 in 1910: 

 and for the present crop the estimate is 

 170,000 bags. 



El Avisador Comercial of Havana states 

 that from trustworthy sources it has re- 

 ceived the information that the Union 

 Sugar Estate at Agramonte, Matanzas 

 Province, has been sold to an English 

 syndicate for the sum of $1,450,000. The 

 mill produced 68,843 bags of sugar in 1909, 

 100,400 bags in 1910, and for 1911 the esti- 

 mate was for 90,000 bags. 



The ^larcareno, which is the name of 

 the new sugar mill to be erected in Cama- 

 guey by capitalists represented by T. M. 

 Galdos, is now progressing rapidly. .The 

 mill will grind in March. 



SUGAR MILLS IN CHINA 



An interesting report has been sub- 

 mitted by ^Iv. J. H. Arnold, the American 

 consul of Amoy, concerning the erection 

 of modern sugar mills in China. 



Mr. Arnold says : 



"A local Chinese business man, who has 

 accumulated considerable wealth in va- 

 rious business and industrial enterprises in 

 Java, is erecting two modern sugar mills, 

 the machinery for which is being fur- 

 nished by a Japanese firm, acting as agents 

 for an American manufacturer of sugar- 

 mill machinery. 



"Many years ago the Amoy hinterland 

 produced large quantities of sugar cane, 

 but the cane was allowed to deteriorate 

 and the native methods of crushing were 

 so crude and wasteful that the industry 

 became unprofitable and was practically 

 abandoned. The owner of these new 

 mills has purchased large areas of land 

 and proposes to use modern methods of 

 growing and crushing the cane. The fact 

 that $15,000,000 has been invested in 

 modern sugar mills in south Formosa 

 during the past ten years, has encouraged 

 the people of this district to believe that 

 their sugar industry can be made equally 

 profitable. Cane shoots from Formosa 

 and Java are being imported. The bulk 

 of the Formosa cane is the rose bamboo, 

 which was introduced into Formosa from 

 Hawaii." 



NEW MILLS READY 



The Chaparra sugar mill closed down 

 for the season on August 12th, having 

 ground 455,112 sacks of sugar of 325 

 pounds each. In 1910 the crop was 531,- 

 049 bags and in 1909, 482,428. 



During the entire harvest, although 

 thousands of men have been employed 

 on this estate, there has not been 

 a single accident, and the grinding has 

 been continuous. 



The work on the two new mills of the 

 Cuban-American Sugar Company has prog- 

 ressed rapidly, and it is now stated that 

 Delicias and San ]\Ianuel will be ready 

 for grinding about the middle of August. 



The output of the three mills, Chaparra, 

 Delicias and San ]\Ianuel, is calculated at 

 one million and a half sacks. 



CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP 



The Union Sugar Plantation in Oriente 

 Province is now under the sole ownership 

 of Senor Jose Rousseau, the administrador 

 who has purchased the interests of Seiiores 

 Manuel Yero Sagol and Isidro Trillas, 

 formerly part owners of the estate. The 

 output has averaged 45,000 bags yearh'. 



