The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-02-12
GERMANY S SUGAR
YIELD NOT G0QD
Indications That Output win Not
Come Up To Early
Expectations

Sugar beet conditions in Germany
are now such that it is believed that
the yields will not come up to early ex-
Pectations. Willett 4 Gray's German
correspondent under date of Doc smher
Is makes this forecast. The weekly
Statistician apd Sugar Trade journal
nnder date of January 81 contains the
following general review of European
beet crop conditions:
Germany, December 10. 19l4.-Dur.
ing the past week weather has continu-
ed mild, with copious rains, especially
in the first half, which interfered seri
ously with field work. However plow
ing and narrowing were frequently pos
sible on light soils. Regarding the
stand of the winter grain, news from
the west is favorable, from the east
satisfactory, and all sides emphasize
that the mild, damp weather has
strengthened the plants, and with a
good snow cover, they are now in con.
dition to winter well. For the keeping
Of the stored beets the high tempera.
tures were not favorable, and il is not
, surprising if the working factories com
plain of Che decreasing sugar contents.
NhOSJ VI TIC ldGlOIlNb nave now tlIuGT
finished the campaign or are nearly
through, but number have some weeks
more to work, and the longer they work
the greater the deterioration of the
beets. Aside from the diversion to
fodder and alcohol purposes, yields at
present do not promise to average up
to early expectations, owing to the
mild, damp Fall.--(F. o. Licht).
| Holland, December 8, l9l4.-The
weather this week has been changeable
with rain and somewhat lower temper,
Gtures. At present it is dry, with more
rain expected. Frosts occurred on sew.
eral nights. The sugar making cam,
paign Is almost ended, and will not la I
over two weeks more at even thu larg
/ est factories. The harvested beets av,
erage 1850 per cent sugar to date,
against 1910 per cent last year
(Dentsche Fucker industrie)
| Franee.-Imports of Beet Seed.-ThC
Temps" of Paris states that there is
a great lack of beet seed. Before the
war most of the seed used in France
came from Germany and Russia, with
only One-tenth from France.
Russia.-Petrogrcd, December 81,
! l9l4-The only statement of imme-
date interest is that Of the beetroot
harvested for the current campaign
which, according to statistics collected
hy' the Customs Department, made a..
! SOC, 900 pools at 25th October, o. 5.
This is considerable advance on the
quun6ty collected at the correspond. ~
period Of 1918, which made only about
| 9,5OO,000 pools. This is obviously ac,
counted for y increased areas sowll
with beet for the yield per dessiatine
has been appreciably less, namely, III
berkowetz, against il5 bk.; and only
in one district has the yield per DIES.
siatine been greater than before, name
| ly, in the east which, as a matter OF
fact, accounts for very little of Rus
| STA 3 supply of raw material. The SUI
gar content, however, has been better
namely 1894, against 1854 in 1913, Sd
| that, always excepting the difficulties
in Poland, the Outturn Of sugar during
the current campaign ought to be pet
ty satisfactory.
India.--Calcutter December 10, 1914
OFFICIAL adviees follow:
Weather in India during the week
ended Tuesday last was marked by a
! disturbance in the extreme south
which gave some heavy rain, chiefly on
the south coast of the Peninsula. The
disturbed conditions affecting north
west Indha developed into a depression
over Baluchistan, and gave light raiu
along the northwest frontier. In Bur
ma and northeast India skies are rrac
| tically clear. In Bihar and Orissa
pressing of sugar cane has commenced
Weather is dry.