If peace becomes a fact and all the available cane is ground, I would say that 500,000 tons might be reached.
Now I will call your attention to the distribution of our crops these few years back.
| CROP OF 1893—815,894 TONS OF 2240 LBS. | ||
| Exported to the United States | 680,642 | Tons. |
| “ “ Canada | 25,069 | “ |
| “ “ Spain | 9,448 | “ |
| “ “ England | 3,045 | “ |
| Local consumption whole year | 50,000 | “ |
| CROP OF 1894—1,054,214 TONS OF 2240 LBS. | ||
| Exported to the United States | 965,524 | Tons |
| “ “ Canada | 24,372 | “ |
| “ “ Spain | 23,295 | “ |
| “ “ England | 10,528 | “ |
| Local consumption whole year | 50,000 | “ |
| CROP OF 1895—1,004,264 TONS OF 2240 LBS. | ||
| Exported to the United States | 769,958 | Tons |
| “ “ Canada | 28,324 | “ |
| “ “ Spain | 28,428 | “ |
| “ “ England | 5,674 | “ |
| Local consumption whole year | 50,000 | “ |
| CROP OF 1896—225,221 TONS OF 2240 LBS. | ||
| Exported to United States | 235,659 | Tons |
| “ “ Spain | 9,969 | “ |
| Local consumption whole year | 40,000 | “ |
| CROP OF 1897—212,051 TONS OF 2240 LBS. | ||
| Exported to United States | 202,703 | Tons |
| “ “ Nassau | 83 | “ |
| “ “ Spain | 1,337 | “ |
| Local consumption whole year | 38,000 | “ |
The stock of sugar left in store on December 1, 1897, was 1888 tons, the smallest stock held at an equal date since several years. The returns and distribution of this year’s crop are not completed yet.
Notice the proportion of exports to Spain in 1897 as compared with exports to the United States.
Mr. Adolfo Muñoz del Monte, writing in the Revista de Agricultura, says:
“During the thirty years before 1884 the following classes of sugar were made:
“First. White sugar nearly refined, manufactured with the aid of vacuum pans, filtered through bone-black, and purified in centrifugal turbines; and the inferior products of this manufacture.