Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-03
SUGAR FIELDS
in DIRECT PATH
!. OF EUROPE'S WAR

the following upon sugar production
in the European war zone:
France- Production 1914. 500.
600 tens sugar Servings 1914-15. 205,,
600 hectares tone hectare is 247
acres1. 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.
Observation-Disclosures 1914. $780,
900 tons sugar. SOwings 19l4-l5, "a,
900 hectares. Liege province is the
second largest sugar producer in the
country, growing about oneNuarter
of the crop. 'Brabant province, con-
tanning Brussels, is the next largest,
being slightly smaller producer than
| Liege. About one-third CT the crop is
| produced in Hainaut, south of Brus-
sells on the French border. Namur
and the other provinces produce but
little sugar.
| Observation-Disclosures 1914, $780,
900 tens. Sugar sowings, 1914-15, Co.
900 hectares. North Brabant, which
stretches along most of the Belgium
border contains is of the % factories
of Holland. Limburg contains none,
and there are but four other factories
near the German border
| Germany.-Production 1914, g.
$4,000 tons sugar. Servings 1914-15,
$50, 900 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
| tens 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
| 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 23,360 hectares were planted
this year ~.
The ether 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 1914, 1.750,
900 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
Galaeian (Austrian) border, about a
fourth, and Kief, adjoining these lat
ter, inland, another fourth.
Austria. -Production 1894, IL
10000 tons. Servings 1914-15 hec-
tares. Little sugar is produced near
the Prussian border Galicia contains
two factories and Bukowina three.
Hungary, further south, contains 32
factories. Bosnia and Salvcnia each |
contain one factory. The other 1873 |
factories are located mostly in Bohe-
mia and other western sections Dor |
dering Germany -..:* :-z...
Italy.-Production 1914, 327, 800 |
tons sugar. Servings 1914-15, 81, 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 1914, $500 |
tons sugar. Servings f914-15. 5000
hectares. Seryia has only two beet
sugar factories
Roumania Production 1914, a.
900 tons sugar. Servings 1914-15, TO-
coo hectares. Roumania has five fac
tories.
Bulgaria. 1914, 1900
hectares. Bulgaria has two beet fac
tories.
Glasgcw.-Clyde Sugar Market,
August Z. I914,-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 1
landed in this country have been avail
able. The nominal quotation of ar Il
rived Centrifugals is 23s Cd to 24s. Cd /
per cwt,, basis SO degrees polarization,
floating terms. f
A large business has been done in
Clyde refined at rapidly advancing
prices white sugars being I'D 25s Cd
to 30s Cd and yelIoYs los Cd to IS Cd
per cwt. for the week The market
closes today with a quieter tone. II
The rush on the part Of the public
to buy sugar seems to be somewhat /;
as it is estimated that
the stocks, visible or invisible in the I
country. may, with economy, be SUI {
icient to meet two months consump-
ion The idea would seem to be prev e;
llent that Great Britain is entirely de- /:
pendent on the continent fer its sug- {
ar supplies while. on the contrary. II
thanks to the abolition Of bountieg
TWO years ago.. the production of cane 1
sugar has steadily increased and now z
amounts to over 100000 tons. Con- Il
sumption in the United Kingdom is