Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-03
SUGAR FIELDS
IN Direct PATH
OF EUROPPS WAR

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Willett & Gray's latest issue gives
the following upon sugar production
| in the European war zone:
France Production 1g13-1f, 500
| 900 tons sugar Servings l9l+-l5. POS,
600 hectares Zone hectare is 2,47
acresl. Almost all sugar is produced
| in the departments lying between the
| Belgium frontier and Paris. Several
of the largest producers border on
Belgium Little sugar is produced on
the FrancO-German border.
Belgium Production r9T3-14. 230.-
| 600 tons sugar Servings l914-lj, a.
600 hectares. Liege province is the
second largest sugar producer in the
country, growing about one-quarter
of the crop. Brabant province. con-
tanning Brussels, is the next largest,
being slightly smaller producer than
Liege. About one-third Of the crop is
produced in Hainaut, south of Brus-
sells on the French border. Namur
and the other provinces produce but
| little sugar
Holland -Production 1914, 800.
900 tons. Sugar sowings, 1914-15, Co.
900 hectares. North Brahant, which
stretches along most Of the Belgium
border contains Is Of the % factories
of Holland I-imburg contains none,
and there are but four other factories
near the German border.
Germany.-Production 1914, q
| 100000 hectares. Alsace, Lorraine
and Baden produce little sugar, but
Rheinland, which borders on Belgium,
has about $4,000 hectares in beets this
year, and last year produced S6,792
tons sugar. -:
The four districts of Prussia border
ing on Russia are large producers of
sugar. The sowings in East and West
Prussia totaled 1916 hectares, in
Posen 6S,S03 hectares and in Silesia
S0,S2S hectares, total of 1S4,796 hec-
tares, or about third of the German
I crop thus borders Russia. Each fall
| it is customary to bring large num-
bers of Russians into these districts
to work in the beets. West of Posen
is Brandenburg containing Berlin.
where 1880 hectares were planted
this year. +"
The other districts producing large
quantities of sugar are Pomerania and
Mecklenburg, on the Baltic sea. the
province of Saxony, in which is Magde-
burg, growing 124,124 hectares, and
Hanover, Brunswick and Anhalt All
these are in the center of the country.
The kingdom of Saxony and other
states and provinces of the empire
produce small amounts. ..~...*..
Russia. -Produetio 1914, 1850,
600 tons sugar. Servings 1914-15. 740.-
900 hectares. The sowings in Poland
constitute about a tenth of these,
those in Podolia and Volhynie. on the
Galacian (Austrian) border, about a
fourth, and Kief, adjoining these lat
ter, inland, Another fourth. .s.i d..
Austria-Pfbduetion 1913-14, L.
10000 tons. e Servings 1914-15 hec-
tares. Little sugar is produced near
the Prussian border. Galicia contains
two factories and Bukowina three.
Hungary, further south, contains so
factories. Bosnia and Salvonia each
contain one factory. The other 1873
factories are located mostly in Bohe-
mia and other western sections bor-
dering Germany. -.~ ...... ~
Italy.-Production 1894. 327,S001
tons sugar Servings 1914-15, $500
hectares. OF its 80 factories nine are
located in the old province of Venice,
on which borders Austria, and two in
Lombardy, which borders on Austria
and Switzerland: Is are in Emilia, the
next province south of these
Servia.--Production 1884, $500
tons sugar. Servings 1914-15. 5000
hectares. Servia has only two beet
sugar factories. -.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1914, 3d.
600 tons sugar. Servings 1914-15, 49,
coo hectares. Roumania has five fac
tories. D..":
Bulgaria. -Production 1914, 1900
tons sugar Servings 1914-15. 100000
hectares. Bulgaria has two beet fac.
tories. ...~
Glasgcw-Clyde Sugar Market,
August Z, 1914-The outbreak of war
with Germany has paralyzed the sugar
market. Business in beet root sugar
ito arrive" has. Of necessity, become
impossible, and only sugars already
landed in this country have been avail.
able. The nominal quotation of ar.
rived Centrifugals is 23s Cd to 24s Cd
per cwt., basis sc degrees polarization,
floating terms. -...... :.
A large business has been done in
Clyde refined at rapidly advancing
prices white sugars being up Eos Cd |
to 30s 0G and yellows los Cd to 15s Cd
per cwt. for the week The market |
closes today with quieter tone.
The rush on the part Of the public |
to buy sugar seems to be somewhat |
unreasonable as it is estimated that
the stocks, visible or invisible in the |
country, may, with economy. he suf |
ficient to meet two months consump- |
ton. The idea would seem to be prev
alent that Great Britain is entirely de-
pendent on the continent fer its sug-
ar supplies while, on the contrary
thanks to the abolition of bounties
two years ago, the production Of cane
sugar has steadily increased and now
amounts to over 100000 tons. Con.