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[Aug.  I,  1896. 
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FRENCH  ( OLUNTES. 
TiIK  SUliAK  Industkiics. 
A circular  letter  on  the  xiosition  of  the  Freii -h 
Colonies  has  lately  been  atldressecl  to  the  French 
Govermnent  and  the  members  of  both  Chamber.s,  and 
is  drawn  uxi  and  si<rned  by  Mons,  E.  8ouques,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Syndicaio  of  bu:;ar  iMaimfacturers,  and 
delegate  of  Guadalouiie  ; Mons.  F.  Hougonot,  aJanded 
Xiroprielor  and  manufacturer  of  liJartiniquo ; and 
Mons.  Micard,  President  of  the  Administrative  Coun- 
cil of  the  Pointc-Simon  tjugar  Association  of  Mar- 
tiuiqe.  The  letter  lias  aj)peaied  in  full  in  the  ,/our- 
nut  des  /•'(ibriaml^  dc  Sucre,  and,  although  interesting 
and  well  reasoned  out,  is  too  long  for  reinodiictiou. 
The  following  table  sums  up  the  results  of  working 
in  Gnadalouiie,  during  five  years,  and  is  given  by 
the  vvriters  in  jnstilication  of  the  statement  that 
the  position  of  tlie  industry  has  been  decling  during 
fhe  last  two  yeaits.  With  some  notably  excexitions, 
such,  for  instance,  as  Qaeenslaud,  Java,  Louisiana, 
the  Hawaiian  Ishind.s,  and  natal,  the  same  might 
be  said  more  or  less  of  nearly  every  cane-sugar 
producing  cotintry,  and  the  reasons  are  too  well 
known  to  need  especial  mention,  and  it  is  to  be  fe.ared 
that  even  fhe  elebrate  arpoae  now  before  us  will 
not  soften  the  hearts  of  the  French  Legislaluie  to 
the  extent  of  inducing  them  to  grant  the  relief  asked 
for  viz.,  the  detaxe  de  diatuuce  referred  to  in  our 
issue  for  October,  1895,  page  500. 
llesumd  of  the  Average  lForA:t)jy  of  the  17  Largest  J'’ac- 
tories  in  Guadaloupe,  1S89  to  1893. 
Average  of  cauo  supplied : — Tons. 
By  the  estates  belonging  to  the  factories  288,987 
By  planters  interested  in  factories  . . 7.'5,()5i> 
By  independent  xilanters  . . . . 31,347 
By  small  cultivators  . . . . 11,788 
Average  total  production  of  cane 
Average  cost  price  of  cane  per  fr. 
ton  . . . . . . 20'79 
-\verago  cost  of  mai;ufacture 
Xjer  ton  . . . . . . 11-30 
435,778 
fr. 
Deduct  for  the  spirit  (tafia) 
Cost  per  toil  of  cauo 
Cost  per  lOO  kilos  of  sugar, 
yield  9’()9  per  cent.. 
Export  duty 
Sundry  expenses,  freight, 
loading,  Ac. 
Cost  Dor  100  kilos.,  delivered 
in  I 'ranee.. 
Deduct  the  avei-age  detaxe  for 
the  last  5 years 
3509 
2-00 
34-15 
1-50 
7-42 
13-07 
()-78 
33-09 
Average  cost  iier  100  kilos  . . 3(5-29 
Interest  and  sinking  fund  on  borrowed 
cax>ital  are  not  reckoned  in  the  above, 
but  may  be  taken  as  about  3 fr.  per 
100  kilos  produced  . . . . 3-00 
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Results  of  1893,  1891,  .yno  1895. 
1893.  1N91.  1895. 
Tons.  Tons.  Tons 
Production  ..  11,158  ..  13,732  ..  3(J,0UU 
In  1891,  in  conse(juence  of  the  low  juices,  the  crop 
fetched  1 l,0i)9,778fr.,  against  I9,9',i3,('.2(ifr.  in  18'I3,  be- 
ing a reduction  of  27  percent.  In  1895,  the  amount 
was  7,500,000fr.,  a reduction  of  02  jier  cent  on  1893. 
Some  iiaragrapbe,  however,  headed  “ Impossibilitd 
d’uuo  substitution  de  cul'.ures,”  will  have  special  in- 
terest for  our  Wcoi  Indian  friends,  and  we,  there- 
fore, supply  a translaticn  of  tlicm,  remarking  that 
the  picture  is  ])aintcd  in  the  darkest  colours,  this 
being  of  course  llio  cno  of  the  writers.  Perhaps  a 
little  less  of  calling  c-iu  Hercules,  and  a little  more 
of  putting  tho  slioiildor  to  the  wheel,  as  is  being 
done  ill  our  own  similarly  sitnalod  colonies,  would 
commend  itself  more  to  the  British  mind. 
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