, 1894-10-17
II.ANAN .A.
From the Louisiana Planter It Sugar
MdluydctWer.

Havana, September IA. 1894.
Editor Louisiana Planter: No change to
report as yet in this market, and for The few
small parcels lift here for sale shippers Of
fers ito not crafty holders aspirations prices
ruling abroad inducing them to pref end rates
altogether beyond the limits the former could
afford to pay at present.
Prospects for the Neat Crop continue
cheering and we're the fine weather that has
heretofore prevailed to keep a few weeks
longer without any atmospheric disturbance.
it is antic ipated that the production in sever
al local tiles, Specially CardenaS and Cienfu.
COS, will equal and perhaps exceed that Of
this year, since the damage done to the grow
ing cane by the drought which prevailed
from April to JuIy has been by this time to-
tally retrieved by the plant.
At some p aces planters have reduced to
ST. a month the salary to field hands, and as
no able worNman is willing to 90 and work
in the country for so small Il pay. the culti-
vation of the fields is somewhat defective on
this account.
MolasseS Contract at SaguG According to
a Sagua paper, planters in that locality are
reluctant to accept for their molasses prices
paid at other mail ets on the northern Coas t,
as reported in my letter Of the 9th inst, their
pretcntions generally ranging at from 20 to
81 per cent. higher.
Most of the large central factories in that
district being now provided with all the ne
ce>sary appar atus Bto boil the totaIity of the
molaSses produced on same, their owners find it
nj re profitable to convert it into sugar than
dispose of it at ruling prices.
Besides, said port offe 5 no accommoda-
ton for loading tank steamers, on which &C.
CONT the expectation of mOlaNses could be
effected through same under only very un-
favourable conditions.
LGbourers for cuba Several Manzanilla
planters and merchants. in combination with
a certain number of emigration agents and
owne S aud consignecs Of steamers in Spain.
are endea yOulirg to bring over from .6alicia
Catalonia and the Canary Islands, 10000 la
bourers within the term of Six years, to be
exclusively employed on plantations on the
southern side of this island, and it is said
that 5000 CanarianS have already been en-
gagged and will arrive at Cuba previous to-
3fSt December next together with 1000 more
from the peninsula, the latter exodus ivoly for
account of Manzanilla planters.
Those w%orkmen, who are selected among
the class of agriculturalists and are accustom-,
cd to labor in the fields, are at from 20 to 40
years old and will earn SIS gold per month,
WIN DOaTu'
Fordcity of the Soil in Cuba. Having recent
ly read in The Honotulu Planter a description
of plantation Eva" i'll Hawaii, | was sur.
prised to see that it is stated in same that,
owing to accurate cultivation the fields Of said
estate yielded ~ tons of cane per acre on an
average; the writer adding that such an ex-
traordinary yield is unrivaled irf the Sand
witch Islands. and p rhaps also at any other
place"
It is probable that the person who wrote
th9article I now Comment on never heard
anything about the yield of the soil in Cuba
or else he would not have made such an as
Serdon since a yield Of ten tons per acre is
equivalent to about 10000 arrobas per Span
ish ca1hlleria and 10000 arrobas is consider
bere rather unsatisfactory. as it would not
cover expenses of cultivation. The average
production of new land, or that which has
been a short time under culture, generally
ranges between $4,000 and 10000 arrobas
per caballeria, and last year a tendancsy of the
plantation owned at Manzanilfa, by Messrs.
Beattie Brothers, yielded 200 600 arrobas,
and as a very extraordinary case we have