The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-23
NEXT CUBAN CROP
SHOULD ABOUT
EQUAL ONEOFl9I6

EStIIttdte " Likely 10 be TX
ceeded Unless Dry Weather
Comes ~ President MenocaI
Fixes Raw Price At Four Sew
enty-five
Rains have been lighter during the
week and the dry weather is hinder.
ing growth Of the cane In some local
tiles, II. o. Neville, writes to Facts
about sugar from Havana under date
| of November 3. Weather conditions
are otherwise favorable. President
Menocal has deereed the. following su.
gar prices: Refined, Wholesale 7.25
cents, retail $3.50; raw, wholesale 4.75
cents, retail 5.7.5, The strike on the
Cuba railroad has been settled No
mills are grinding Receipts az ports
for the week ending October ~ are 500
tons; exports, 1879 tons; stocks, as.
1880. tons. ..E.,
Grinding Of the old crops is now at
an end, the last central, Santa Lucia,
having stopped October % with a total
outtuTh OF ooc,fzl Dags. 5eagt...
The Coming Crop outlook
The unusual statistical position Of
sugar in the Tinted states nd IN, ,.ood
Of large supplies for our ,AlIiss la.as
breat Interest 70 the question of Tho
huantitv az sngarFto he nrod,,eo1. In
| Cuba 4 coming erop. Preliminary asti.
mates based. however, largely upon
conditions existing only over limited
areas, have been made of a crop about
as large as was that of l9I6-aboIt
| 8 $4,000 tons, but unless the dry wealth
err of the early summer in Matanzas.
santa Clara and Camaguey provinces
has hurt the cane more seriously than
! reports show, the crop should exceed
THE estimate. provided labor can be
found to harvest il all, and difficulties
do NOT occur in the mills. to prevent
its being ground. The cane in the
fields that were burned over in Orientc
and Camaguey provinces during the re.
volt of last spring was to large ex-
tent entirely lost. These fields have
Of course suffered from neglect. but the
cane stubble did not die, and in the
main has been cleaned and tended so
Ma ~ VII P'puuee r srvl, 'nIs seas9h.
F"rnV new P,autings IN the east We're
s sip,I neglec.eu, anu some on these
t lW VII VIZ, prove a.eonnpie'e loss, out
otneIs wiz SlVe returns; ana whiie
: .Nn vas Ieit ps tne pIanters even
ui tns "osseEh par oi ths Isiahu NOT
,ias,;. anesteu ~ ase hlS' !,I se,a
P'an'lhG continued anu the oid heids
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~ SaiJi.. sea ~. mo- WIN
nj, M o,; "puis III III ,oeL sears oniy !"
,naI 80, Era $500 r,..n y "a .ne .an
5ind 10 S So s,Sp - Supa - eu. anu nan
character of The natiyes Cnhsn ana ne
| Indifference to the needs az tbe ,norroW
| cause him TO work only 10 obtain that
which is imnediately needed "a that ~
he can fill these wants with the work
of two DAYS IN each week he win re-!
main idle during thea remaining fiys.
The bipber wages now heing nsia for
an kinds of work are enconraging this
tendency. with the respIf that he sngar
| growers This wear win have more need
for the imporiedt Ia borer tbrn ever, = =
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M -DeN1.A -.
! Inc Improving sltuatlon as regards
e,u IDSs Is MOI rslhestea IN sne lils
needed. II is reported thar there "a q
quiet but constant flow of this higher
class labor from Cuba TO the United
States. where shorter hours more con.
genial surroundings. and better nav can
be had. ~ a.. - tx = F.ss =.
The s+r;ke s;tra.;on o,0ono tho mn,
chan;cs ~ s,nta Ga nnJ So ,ne o, ~"
nroyincas sbows iittie .bonSra Ths n.y., ey
~ JagSevsI ma FrsS;a;aan "a iro.nr 49,
"a tas~o,I, bnt ~ a. Sa,has ny
fectea they' = st; m ont o'Asi M =
M 80 $50 4,