The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-23
CROPS
FAR BELOW. u =.
EARLY ESTIMATES
Planters viii Give New York Only
About a Fourth Of What Was
Asked and Are Bitter Against
Sugar Commissions .e4s

NEW ORLEANS, November 1o--Dis.
appointing results as to yield continue
TO be reported from the Louisiana su.
gar district. The weather has been
uhinterruptedly dry and cool; aud in
this respect ideal for the prosecution
ef grinding operations, but the droughts
Of the summer and early fall and the
recent freezes have done their work
and we see no reason TO dispute the
generally prevalent opinion that the
Louisiana sugar output this year will
not 20 over 100000 tons. ,s.t
The United States government bu.
reau Of crop estimates issued a cane
crop report on November 9th giving
the cane crop condition on November
LIST as sixty-seyen percent Of normal
or full crop, as compared with 90 per
cent on November 1, 1916. and as com.
pared with an average Of eighty four
percent for the past ten years Last
year the total OUTPUT OF sugar in Louisi.
, ana was approximately 100000 tons,
and If we reckon last year as ninety.
three percent crop a sixty-seven per
cent crop would be some 100000 tons.
These calculations are Of course incon.
elusive because 20 much NAV hpppen ~
mar crop after November LIST, and
they do not take into accouut the yield
Of the cane in SUGAR. As this Is ex-
traordinarily low this year the figure
we have deduced Of 10000 tons is SUBJ
ject TO heavy discount.
Last week ended with the sugar pro-
ducers periodically endeavOring 10 give
100000 tons of raw sugar to the ma.
tional refners under an unwTitten
agreement with the sugar price regula;
tors that Louisiana washed sugars
would be permitted to be sold up 10
the standard granulated price, and this
week finds the Louisiana sugar indus.
try thoroughly disguised at the right
about face executed by these price
regulators which rescinded this under
stood washed sugars selling arrange
ment, except as regards plantation
graduated sugars which can be sold
up to the refners' price, which refiners
price was thereupon summarilv reduce
by interests who will not suffer one iota
by the reduction because as general
proposition at this time the reducers
have no sugar TO sell anyway" -..
The New York refners are mcky in
deed that they have been able TO get
any sugar at all. And 25.9D91s tons
of raw sugar is what they will get and
very little more, although the American
Sugar Refining Company was said to
be in the market at New Orleans buy.
ing up raws on the open market just
like Henderson and the Colonial re-
fneries have been doing for some time,
Meantime many who had agreed to sac
rifce their crop. practically, by max
ing raws when they have been making
washed sugars always in the seasons
gone by, simply to help an admittedly
tight national sugar situation, have re-
torted in kind to the improper treat
ment of the sugar control body and re
fused to sign up on the Babst agree
ment for 100000 tons of raws. '' .'n
At the same time the Louisiana SUI
| gar producers are considering the per
sonnet of the sugar control commission
and wondering how they were ever so
foolish as to have been even temporar-
lily hoodwinked by it's maneuverings.
| There is hardly one signer. in the 20,
200 tons subscribed who is not purely
| test sugar producer Almost all of the
washed sugar men who were going To
make some test sugar simply TO show
their supreme good will, are out of the
! agreement for good and all. What Is
the difference anyway, these men say,
between letting the Louisiana producers
supply the sugar-famished districts OF
the United States and letting the rein.
ers do this with Louisiana sugarsf The
| people of the United States now want
sugar and they are not a bit concerned
with what kind, provided that the su.
gar is good sugar that they get.
| Prominent sugar men say that the re.
fneTs are the masters of the national
sugar situation by virtue of their ap.
pOintment by the national food conser.
vationists, and by the government OF
the United States, and the sugar, pro
dueers of the United States, hy virtue
Of this same exercise of authority, hav.
been accorded the privilege Of being
their gOvernmentally-o ordained serfs.
The production of sugar during the
past two weeks was not very large
Though cold weather interrupted fac
tory work everywhere the labor
ers were put into the fields 10 wipdrow
This interruption due to this cause was
general. ~ .....sh ~. -