The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-04-23

sugars produced for export. The 1914
exports from Trinijad were $4,000 tons.
hence The Indifference o: re6ners to-
wards increasing their supplies Of raws.
Cuisines gene: ally during the week
has been mode, ate and at declining
prices. The decline was slow until ~
ward the close, when pressure to sell
caused a rapid decline to 1910. Sales
at the latter figure total $4,000 bags -
rehhers, and spectators, all for nearby
positions. |Rt I'll
In view of the present statistics on
the CuEa crop, ind eating as thew do.
under present conditions, q crop OF
I 2i5G0,00o tons, the wcckIyt receipts are
Of increasing importance.n n n
1 The German situL IN !l44B&E !
MAGDEBURG, Germany, March 8,
l9l5.-As regards our next crop, 1915
1916, the Bundersrath reduced on Thurs
day last the contracts made in the acre.
age of heets Tor l0l5-l9l6 from 100 pei
| cent to "a per cent in order to protect
| growers and lubricants because of the
continuance of the war. However, the
growers of beets and the lubricants OF
sugar are by no means compelled 10
respect this percentage. They may
! choose to make new contracts at their
! leisure, so that a certain decrease in
! beet sowings, forced ly the present sit
nation, is possible, but nobody can tell
now whether we will have q shortage
of per cent or Up to p per cent. NJ
doubt speculative beet sowings will
take place in large way not previously
known in our country
The labor question can he easily over
come. there being TS0,0O0 prisoners in
Germany, of these many Russians who
are quite willing TO work,
| Our'Besf crop 'l914-l9l5, is reserves
as foHowS iiTl's ~
66y per cent for inland consumntiou
p ~ per cent for Pnrpose Of distilling
stock feeding for the Beutsche Land
Hittsehaft, Beslin, ~ q r.
4 S3 per cent for stock feeding, expor
and distiIling spirits ih the free trade
United States Fisld ana Factory
] sEotss fpomt the press:
/ Reports from Oxnard, Chino an,
Huntington Beach, California, all agree
that the present condition of the bee
crop in excellent and that prospects arr
for full crop. On March goth furthe
rains were desired. -..,.
! Owing to high freight rates on toma
toes and other canned goods from Utah
the canperieS Of that State are not Of
fering growers sufficient inducements
for their raw material, and consequent
Iy many farmers are putting land re
served for such crops into beets Al
ready the Ogden factory has stopp"
taking contracts, as the area alread,
secured will tax the, factory to it.
capacity. Its contracts cover 9,Op'
acres, against Z 800 acres last year. II
the Cache Valley the Logan and Lewis
ton factories have together cOntracte'
for $1,000 acres, which is almost t%ei
limit also and Is much more than the,
had last year ,..,
The Longmont, Colorado factory ha'
con tractrd for $4,000 acres to Marc,
22d aud could only take a few thousqr,
acres more. The recent wet weathr
has forced many of the farmers, VIII
bad declared they would not raise beet
mn less tn" company granted a bette
price, to sign contracts. These farm
crs intended to sow spring wheat. tn
Rast experience has proven that beet
ore mnch more successful than sprinI
wheat unless the wheat can be sown tn
last of February or early in March
SHOULD the weather remain fair from
now on, it would be the first of Apri
ut least before the fields would be SUI
ficientlv dry 10 allow Moving and SOW
ing. Beets yield well even If plante,
as late as theSmiddle Of, May, Their
is plentiful sllpplY of irrigation water
More than 10000 acres OF beets hav
Teen contracted by the Contineuta
Suorr Co. and its factories are expect =,
to have q very successful season. Al
official Of the Michigan Sugar Co. /
also Quoted to the efeet that the com
PaRy had Contracted for all the aereng
its factories could haudle. The uev
flat prir" Of 10 a ton will be paid u
any Of this cpnnsny's stations regard
lcss &c distaNre from factory.
PORTO RICO, March 25. I9I5.-Ow
ing to the fact that the yield in sev
tral districts is not satisfactory. an,
also to some evt"nt to the effect Of t.
recent l"hor strike. the crop estimat
is r"durrd to 2l5,00O tons.
Raw surar futures OF Coffee FIX
ch"no" for week ending April record
ed sa'"s at 3.s2 10 ass Ahri1; MAY, rs
to 3ol; June 3s9 10 apo ,l"rv. 80
to 4.oh; Augrst 800 70 4O7; Srrt"ml
ars 4 "2 to 4,l5, " Total sales for wee
, 2l,70O tons a.
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