The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-18
Sugar and Plantation News
Story of Sugar In Europe
By II. G. Prinse11-G eerliqs
Scarcity, Hunger, Privation, Want,
Are the Common Lot Of An

Inc LOUISIANA flantef PRINTS TWO IN
terPsting letters from its Amsterdam
correspondent, H. {. Prinsen Geerligs,
one dated July : and the other July IL.
In his first letter he reports that in
Germany $4,000 tons of raws originally
reserved for cattle feed have been dis
tributed ms human food in order that
housewives may use it for preserving
fruits.
The monthly allotment per capita is
now one ana a half pounds with AN ad
ditiOnal two pounds per capita for put
ting up fruit In Holland the go yeru-
ment has found over 5000 tons If Isl
lent - sugar stored in private ware.
houses. This has been seized paid for
at the regular market price and added
! to the national supply.
All Europe Sugar Hungry
Holland now has enough to last until
the first of the new crop is made, in
September. Desperate sugar shortage
exists in Sweden, France, Belgium, Pn-
land and Russia. In the last named
country "the peasants sugar their tea
by putting "a lump Of hard sugar in
their Mouths and drinking the hot tea
over it. In order to be economical in
the use of sugar the refners turn out
hard kind of loaf sugar which melts
very slowly and permits long Use .. (
the same lump.
| "In these times the refnrrps do not
! turn out enough hard sugar and, there
fore, the people cannot sugar their tea
after their custom and do not wanr to
drink their beverage sweet"n"d, by
graduated or sand sugar disst yed,
which takes too much Of the article FOR
the purses Of these consumers.
oficial Russian Figures
"After the results of an official in.
quiry in Russia. the total area planted
with beets in Russia amounts to Co.'S
900 hectares, against 1929 hectares
/ In the wear 1915 thus meaning n de-
c""nsa Of l4U.320 hectares, or, about
nineteen per cent.
"The biggest figure for Russian SOW
| ings ever recorded has been 772 $40 in
the year l9ll-l2. so that the present
area is about 10000 hectares under
| that maximum. and in the interval the
normal consumption in the Russian En-
! pire has gone up considerably, viz:
! from seventy three million poCdS 10
ninety millions. or. IN increase Of about
one fourth. The returns of the fields
will not be to the same mark as in nor
NAL years so that, indeed restriction
Of the consumption will be necessary
for the coming year.
Where Paintings Are Smaller
"The largest decrease in servings is
| reported from the Kew and PodOlia
| governments in the southwestern part
of the empire, where no less than TWEEN
| ty-fve per cent decrease is to be re-
corded, while in the central and east.
ern parts the sOwings are only compar-
EatiEely slightly less than in other years
The sOwings made by the factories
themselves have undergone an increase,
hut the soyings made by farmers under
contract only occupy sixty per cent of
the area of last year.
"This is in full accordance with for
mer news reported in these letters, that
the farmers are losing confidence in the
beet cultivation so long as the abnor-
NAL circumstances owing to the war are
reigning. great number of Russian
beet sugar factories have extended
their capital, doubtless with a view to
increasing their own sowings in order
to become more independent of the
farmers and to secure better and
more trustworthy supply of their prime
material
France Is IN Straits
'The sugar position in France is
very difficult The normal consumption
over the whole country amounted to
some HO,OOO tons per annum, but in
these times, when good portion of the
country is under German rule, the guam
tity of sugar necessary for the remain
Ing part is not so big, although the in
creased wants of the army will take up
CONSIDERABLE surplus over the ordinary
renrs. The production in 1914 has
amounted to 100000 tons, that of 1915
III to 100000 tons. while slight in
crease. probably of $4,000 tons is ex.
pected from the still growing crop.
"ThP French colonies yield about
100000 tons per year, leaving a very
hig balance uncovered. The French
Government has received $4,000 tons
through the intermediary of the British
commission for the sugar supply, but
this is inadequate to supply the whole
deficit. The American stocks are much
smaller than in the year before, and
while large expectations of American
grann ated have taken place it. is not
probable that there will remain M
much surplus as in 1915 to send to Eu
rope in the Inter half of this year.
European Acreage
"The figures for last year are given
NJ Il comparison. The areas are in hcc-
tare% equal to about two and half
acres:
1916. II 1918 -I1
Germany ....... IA 600 81 900
Austria Hungary PIT fO0 OEf ,t0n