Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-19
philippine SUGAR OUIIURN WILL
SOMEWHAT EXCEED THATOF 1916

great advantages accrning 10 the
planters from the installation Of mod
Lern milling nacainery Il rapidly catch.
ing a n the Philippines. e the cane
growers have been seriously imp
ressed By the splendid showings that
kaye been mads By the several mod
arn mills already installed. They are
realizing today as never before the
vast amount " loss The small plant
ers suffer who cannot avail them
selves Of up-fodatc machinery for
milling.
Planters In many sections are at.
tempting to combine under Q coOpera.
tive plan for the purpose cf installing
'centrals equippei with machinery ca.
pable OF extracting the maximum
amount Of juice from the cane and Of
manufacturing high grade OF sugar.
Not much progress has yet been mada
in this direction. The reason for this
seems TO be fhat, through the methods
" which tho industry has been eon.
Quoted m the past. most OF the plant.
err are and have been for some time
heavily IN debt. Consequently their
credit Ii usually sorely tried to get
enough money to finance their plant
ing and milling under the system long
IN vogue and they have left but little
reserve resources out Of which q new
central can be financed even under 2
cooperative plan.
The government IA years past. has
given aHEistaace 70 the planters
through the. banks, IN one way or a..
other, for the express purpose Of en-
aiding them to avoid the somewhat ex-
acting and bnrdensome terms Of some
Of the exporting houses. On the other
hand The planters have not Is rule
been prudent nrd thrifty and the
money made available BY the govern
ment has quite frequently gone for
other things than the improvement
'nl equipment and methods, after the
bare expenses Of harvesting had been
betrayed.
The salvation Of the Philippine
sugar planters IN most Of the produ-
cling localities would be the financing
0f sugar centrals by outside capital.
This vas recognized by the govern
nient tvs yehfs aao when the sugar
central bond wa cFeafed for the pur.
pose Of making Il possible for the gov
ernment and capitalists 70 cooperRte
II the establishment Of such ceatrals.
a. The goyefnuaont has not had
enough money to permit the carrying
out cf this pien, nothing 10 date along
this line has been done further than
to create the board. So far the board
49,. s47..afASan - - mr., 1s4S,ff :, q
oi few Investigations into applica
tons Tor loans, Of which none have
been made up "a this writing
a group s0t sugar mon at SHAY, Ne
9rnl. have formed Z cooperation. with.
II the last few days for the purpose
cfferoctin1 anoE MIL ana installing
modern machinery. rhe mill propos-
ed win be comparatively small The
canita lizafiun IS Tor 900, Another
new min Is projected fot H1np1nga.
Nefsra. Smith, Bell & Company are
importing 100000 MIL for the eelIe-
Der plantation near Angelet. The
Rampanga region Is rapidly increasing
u importonee - SUGAR produotiop.
After the. province Of Occidental Ne.
sroS. HanlponHn ranks highest n acre.
l6e and amount Of proauct.
Exports Discussed
Data h lacking to show Just what /
part Of the sugar erop for each year
8 exported. Exports are calculated |
Ior the calendar year. whereas the
sugar milling aeaecn runs from Mol
Vembef till June The exports regis.
Tered for o1ch year necessarily IN |
eIude portions pf the crops Of two
years. Probably not over tWothirds
81 the cane harvested each year Is |
exported u the form of sugar, tpr
example the total value Of the sugar
exported during 1915 was s11, 3l0.z15.
Ehe esiimated value Of The total cane
crop of l91b-io vas Slf,Q6S .066. 76. |
This. does not mean, however. that |
1ne-third the annual cane crop Il con-
'uned = ne islands u the form Of |